3. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
• Safety
o Ensure all mechanical maintenance work is carried out according to Air Products safety
procedures, ensuring KPIs are met or exceeded
o Actively promote and drive safety excellence for contractor and AP staff, through active
participation and compliance with AP’s safety procedures.
• Reliability
o Ensure that effective predictive and integrity based maintenance programs are followed that are
consistent with facility KPIs, reducing unplanned shutdowns and ultimately enhancing overall
plant profitability and reliability
o Make timely and correct decisions based on fact and sound judgement, in order to keep plant
downtime to a minimum, in both planned and un-planned situations
o Locate and develop local resources (contractors, vendors, etc) for improved plant support.
o Liaise on a daily basis with Production and maintenance staff, to ensure that potential issues are
identified and plans created to rectify the issues in an appropriate and timely manner
• Preventative Maintenance
o Ensure the mechanical PM system is appropriate for the equipment and periodically evaluate
the programme's effectiveness and modify accordingly to ensure that optimum reliability/cost
benefits are maintained
o Put systems in place to ensure the maintenance is carried out in accordance with the PM system
requirements, ensuring that PM compliance KPIs are met
o Work with the Maintenance Manager and Planner to actively develop and take responsibility for
short and long range planning and execution of essential programs, shutdowns and equipment
maintenance schedules.
• Un-planned Maintenance
o Have systems, procedures, vendors and contractors in place such that un-planned (emergency)
breakdown situations are dealt with in a safe, efficient and cost effective manner in order to get
the equipment operational with the minimal disruption to plant on-streams
o Ensure appropriate resources are involved in decision making (technical, production, &
commercial)
• Leadership
o Offer front line leadership to contractors and the mechanical maintenance team in all situations,
pulling together and co-ordinating the appropriate resources to deal with mechanical
maintenance related issues
o Responsible for the performance and capability of the mechanical maintenance team, by
monitoring individual’s performance and creating and implementing individual and
departmental development plans
o Initiate and drive maintenance improvement projects. Lead the continuing effort to raise
standards for plant maintenance
• Cost control
o Ensure all mechanical maintenance is carried out in the most cost effective manner, taking into
account the cost of execution relative to downtime and business area needs
o Work with the Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Planner to help ensure that accurate
maintenance budgets are established for longer term work and that the work is subsequently
completed within the available budgets
o Ensure that all ongoing and future maintenance costs are readily available, to ensure cost
control and forecasting is achieved
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