Apq Maintenance Superintendent

**Job Description and Qualifications**

**COMPANY PROFILE**
Air Products Qudra is a regional development and investment joint venture (JV) between Air Products and Qudra Energy, a subsidiary of Vision Invest. Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company developing, engineering, building, owning and operating many of the world's largest industrial gas projects. Vision Invest is a leading development and investment Holding Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with a diversified portfolio of investments across several sectors such as Utility, Infrastructure, Logistics and Industrial Gases with a global operational investment footprint.

**NATURE & SCOPE**

**PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES**
**Safety**:

- Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all injuries.
**Technical**:

- Provide technical direction for maintenance related activities for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities.
- Provide Maintenance support & guidance during the commissioning of the plants. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives in order to maintain the history going forward.
- Provide Maintenance leadership to insure safety, reliability and maintainability of the equipment, instrumentation and electrical processes.
- Provide Maintenance input for scheduled outages to insure contractual requirements are achieved.
- Identify cost savings opportunities in spare parts by leveraging engineering skills and experience to repair
- Assist in the development and manage the preventative / predictive maintenance system to insure scheduled maintenance activities are completed and remain in compliance
**Maintenance**:

- Insure the safety of all maintenance personnel by utilizing the APQ Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, Confined Space, etc. The position is a key member in building the Air Products safety culture into the APQ
- Understand Environmental Regulatory requirements
- The Maintenance Superintendent must foster a climate where the focus of the work force is centered on safety, quality and team growth
- Establish the maintenance organization and support construction and commissioning activities
- Manage the Maintenance team consisting of a contract coordinator, planner, mechanical, electrical, and instrument technicians, & warehouse management by balancing the internal & contractor workforce, based on data driven decisions to insure safety and reliability targets are met to achieve maximum profitable
Provide coaching and motivation to the maintenance team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction
- Insure APQ & Air Products standards, and best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met
- Working with the operations and engineering teams understand plant issues and provide cost effective solutions for resolution to meet the customer’s satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply
- Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via maintenance productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, and meeting of budgets.
- Provide maintenance support and participate incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis. Identify & implement sustainable corrective action(s).
- Provide leadership in turnaround (TAR) planning and execution, including maintenance and repair information collection, preparation of job packages, spares and materials, contractors and tools, safety management during execution, and TAR execution and contractor management
- Act as the Single Point of Contact for the Maintenance Department when dealing with internal issues of the onsite units ( ASU, HYCO, CO2, etc), representing APQ and coordinating internal resources. Provide timely progress updates to the stakeholders.
- Emergency response required 7 days a week/ 24 hours a day. The Maintenance Superintendent must have the ability to make decisions upon consulting operations and engineering outside of normal working hours on the resolution of the issue at hand
- Management of a team that must be prepared on short notice to respond to unscheduled events while maintaining safety standards, and work quality
- Strong organizational, planning, and interpersonal and communication skills are essential to the position. Credibility and respect across the organization is important.

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS**:

- A minimum of a Bachelor degree in an engineering field (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or Instrument & Controls)
- 10 years minimum in gas, petrochemical, or related industries in operations, construction, engineering, and/or maintenance function. Air Separation and or HYCO Operations a plus.
- 8+ years in maintenance supervision with a demonstrated understanding of the maintenance work process with a track record
- Demonstrate