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The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Job Location: Painesville, OH

Job type: Full-time, 40 hours/week 

Type of role: Onsite

 

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Operation Unit Maintenance Coordinator. 

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team. 

 

What Will Be Your Environment: 

The Painesville plant is one of Lubrizol’s larger facilities in the area, just outside of Cleveland, OH. You'll have the opportunity to develop skills that will allow you to grow your career well into the future.  This is hands-on development program that is great opportunity for someone start, pivot, or continue their career in industrial operations with a stable and growing organization. 

 

What You'll Do:  

The Operation Unit Maintenance Coordinator Works with operations leadership and functional interfaces to identify, prioritize, and schedule unit tasks and activities. Activity coordination covers round-the-clock unit activities and tasks. This role includes the role of Gate Keeper in the Maintenance Work Process. Provides and assigns a prioritized, value-added schedule of unit tasks and activities, including timing and unit preparation for maintenance work. 

 

What We’re Looking For:

Ensures tasks and requests are value-assessed and align with unit objectives.   Develops the resource loaded task and activity list to assist with the process of determining optimum staffing.  Owns and updates the unit or area consolidated task and activity list.   Updates and adjusts the task list to schedule plant activities.   Follows the Maintenance Work Process and is the primary interface between operations and maintenance. Owner of the unit maintenance budget.   Ensures maintenance work requests are clearly defined, value-assessed, and prioritized according to the Maintenance Work Process requirements. Works with the Maintenance Coordinator to remove barriers for crafts, supporting safe, efficient, reliable repairs.   Determines operational resources, planning, preparation, and procedural requirements for task and activity requests, including operating discipline adequacy.   Ensures task value analysis is conducted annually on all plant tasks for unit alignment.   Builds and maintains a prioritized list of opportunistic work (Priority 4) for execution during an unplanned short stop, outage or turnaround. Ensures that startup and shutdown activities are included in the consolidated list of tasks and activities.   Works with operations to ensure that all jobs on the schedule for next day for maintenance are ready (LOTO & Permitting).   Reviews work status with service providers and originators.   Acts as the focal point for service requests that will be externally supplied for operation tasks within the unit.   Identifies repeat jobs and works with Maintenance to escalate for support prior to making the repairs (Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Technologist, etc.). 

 

Skills That Make a Difference: 

High School Diploma  10 years operational experience within a system unit within a chemical plant  Budget management/oversight experience  Critical thinking skills for prioritizing information/tasks to develop short- and long-term maintenance schedules   Self-driven with the ability to collaborate with various working groups  Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, & SharePoint)   

Considered a Plus: 

Experience as a shift leader within a chemical plant 

Working Conditions:                            

Schedule will be a 40 hour week, 5, 8hr days. Eligible for flextime: 5x8hrs week 1,

 4x10 week 2, or 4x9hrs and 1x4hr weekly.

Flexible start and end time between 5:30 and 6:30am. Earliest end time 2:00 pm Must be willing/able to work in a plant environment and occasionally outdoors in inclement weather.   Willing/able to work off hours/weekends, as required. 

 

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.