Global Manager Maintenance & Turnaround Excellence

Global Manager Maintenance & Turnaround Excellence
Arnhem, the Netherlands (or Hull, United Kingdom)

Our client is a fast-growing business with a purpose: changing wood to change the world. We combine chemistry, technology and ingenuity to make high performance wood products that are extremely durable and stable, opening new opportunities for the built environment. By doing so, we give the world a choice to build sustainably.
The client transforms fast-growing, certified sustainable wood into durable, stable, non-toxic wood products with characteristics that match or better those of man-made, intensely resource-depleting and heavily carbon-polluting alternative building materials. Our wood manufacturing facility is in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and client is also expanding in other locations. Our next plant will be at the Saltend site in Hull, UK, where the company is building and will soon be operating the world’s first Tricoya® production plant.

Company Overview
Accsys Technologies PLC is a fast-growing business with a purpose: changing wood to change the world. We combine chemistry, technology and ingenuity to make high performance wood products that are extremely durable and stable, opening new opportunities for the built environment. By doing so, we give the world a choice to build sustainably.
Accsys transforms fast-growing, certified sustainable wood into durable, stable, non-toxic wood products with characteristics that match or better those of man-made, intensely resource-depleting and heavily carbon-polluting alternative building materials. Our Accoya® wood manufacturing facility is in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and Accsys is also expanding in other locations. Our next plant will be at the Saltend site in Hull, UK, where the company is building and will soon be operating the world’s first Tricoya® production plant. Accsys also recently announced the formation of a joint venture with Eastman Chemical Company with the intention of building an Accoya® production facility in the USA.

Main Job Purpose / Role Summary
The Global Manager Maintenance & Turnaround Excellence will be part of the Global Engineering Centre and be the leading expert in the field of strategic asset management and turnaround excellence for all Accsys manufacturing sites. Accountable for the implementation, management, and continuous improvement of the Maintenance & Turnaround excellence program for Accsys across the various locations, i.e. creating proposals for policies, requirements, standards, procedures, tools and templates to structurally implement and continuously improve maintenance (strategic asset management) and turnaround execution, specifically with regard to reliability, overall equipment effectiveness, maintenance/turnaround work execution and cost. Also supporting Accsys sites globally in maintenance and turnaround execution, e.g. capability building and training, support turnaround planning, stage-gate and peer reviews, etc.

Key Responsibilities
• Maintenance and Turnaround Excellence: leading expert for all Accsys manufacturing sites.
• Strategic Asset Management & Turnaround Management Governance: stage-gated processes and organization of turnaround planning and scheduling, long term (life cycle) asset planning, spare part management, maintenance strategy, KPI definition and control, CMMS improvements, OEE measurements, reliability and maintenance effectiveness reviews, costing and IT tools.
• Develop policies, requirements, standards, procedures, tools and templates to structurally implement and continuously improve strategic asset management and turnaround management
• Global ownership of Strategic Asset Management & Turnaround Management processes and standards; site audit support to justify those processes and standards.
• Work closely with Site Engineering teams, HSE, Operations and other departments.
• Provide process safety engineering guidance
• Provide guidance, support Turnaround planning and execution, support site reliability and strategic asset management efforts, attend design reviews, etc. upon request
• Develop Strategic Asset Management and Turnaround direction as well as targets and KPIs.
• Develops in close collaboration with Accsys Learning & Development the agenda for professional development in Strategic Asset Management and Turnaround planning & execution for Operations/Maintenance, Engineering, and HSE employees. Coaching and training of employees.
• Monitor legislative requirements and pro-actively implement in strategic asset management and turnaround strategies and procedures

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical strongly preferred) • Master’s degree preferred
Knowledge & Experience
• >5 years maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment (refinery, petrochemical, chemical process preferred).
• >5 years experience in turnaround management
• Ideally proven track record of past successful management of turnarounds • Very strong in Project Management, Stakeholder Management and Leadership • Significant understanding of Maintenance and Turnaround processes and practices


Competencies, Skills & Attributes
• Strong theoretical and practical experience in process safety.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to execute and follow through;
• Ability to drive continuous improvement of processes, policies, standards;
• Strong planning, organization and problem-solving skills;
• Able to work in an inclusive way and to build and maintain professional relationships with business and function stakeholders;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, result oriented, negotiation, problem solving, project management, confident, enthusiastic;
• Strong oral and written communication skills;
• Strong influencing skills;
• Ability to perform trainings.
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
• Excellent verbal and written Dutch language skills is a plus.