Supervisor - Electrical & Instrumentation

Supervisor - Electrical & Instrumentation

Location:

Metallurgical Complex (MET) - Columbus, MT

Schedule:

Rotating - 7X7

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

The Supervisor - Electrical & Instrumentation leads assigned employees and contractors while supporting the planning, scheduling, and coordination of safe, resource-ready electrical and instrumentation maintenance work for the Metallurgical Complex. The role translates approved plant priorities and schedules into daily assignments and directs work execution to support safe, reliable performance, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement.

The Supervisor's primary duties are:

• Lead safe electrical and instrumentation work in accordance with applicable OSHA requirements, NFPA 70, NEC standards, company procedures, environmental requirements, energy-isolation requirements, and site-specific electrical and instrumentation standards.
• Conduct field inspections, pre-job reviews, risk assessments, and observations to verify safe conditions, qualified and authorized personnel, appropriate tools, testing equipment, permits, and effective work controls.
• Communicate maintenance priorities, safety expectations, electrical and instrumentation work requirements, daily assignments, results, and escalation requirements to employees and stakeholders.
• Assign work based on approved priorities, employee qualifications, electrical authorization, available labor, equipment access, work readiness, and operating conditions.
• Safety inspections, training verifications, electrical authorizations, incident follow-up, and corrective actions are completed on time and work is executed in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Field scope, asset-condition, priority, labor-availability, access, risk, electrical-control, testing, calibration, and work-readiness information is provided to Planning accurately and on time.
• Preventive, predictive, condition-based, statutory, calibration, testing, and regulatory maintenance is completed and documented within required timeframes.
• Work orders are closed promptly and accurately with actual labor, materials, equipment condition, failure details, test and calibration results, follow-up needs, and execution variances documented for planning and reliability improvement.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Leadership, coaching, delegation, instructing, social perceptiveness, conflict resolution, and performance management.
• Strong prioritization, time-management, and organizational ability to balance competing short- and long-term demands.
• Technical literacy sufficient to interpret electrical drawings, schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, manuals, specifications, protection settings, test records, and equipment history.
• Proficiency with standard office software, computerized maintenance management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and maintenance-reporting tools.
• Applicable OSHA requirements, NFPA 70, NEC standards, electrical safe-work practices, energy control, arc-flash, switching, grounding, permitting, and environmental requirements.
• Industrial electrical distribution, motor control, protection, PLC, industrial electrical equipment, instrumentation, communication, and process-control system operation and maintenance.
• Electrical and instrumentation inspection, troubleshooting, testing, calibration, commissioning, preventive maintenance, restoration, and return-to-service practices.
• Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling processes, including work screening, field scoping, backlog prioritization, work-package readiness, schedule compliance, shutdown coordination, and work-order closeout.

Education & Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five years of relevant industrial electrical, instrumentation, process-plant, fixed-plant, or related heavy-industrial maintenance experience, including experience coordinating work and leading employees or contractors; or an associate or bachelor's degree in a related field and three years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading, training, directing, or supervising employees or contractors.

Preferred:

• Two or more years of frontline supervisory or lead experience in a processing, manufacturing, metallurgical, chemical, utility, or other heavy-industrial maintenance environment.
• Experience supervising electrical distribution, motor-control, process-control, instrumentation, and fixed-plant maintenance and collaborating with planners and schedulers.
• Experience with shutdowns, turnarounds, major repairs, preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability processes, commissioning, testing, calibration, and contractor coordination.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system and/or JD Edwards.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preference, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.