The Manager, Maintenance Excellence position is responsible for leading the company-wide effort to improve refinery availability and reduce overall expenses by developing a culture of maintenance excellence. This includes, but it is not limited to:

• Development of maintenance strategies, implementation of best practices, develop performance measurements (KPI’s) and review during Monthly Performance Review meetings

• Develop expectations and goals to achieve safety and quality excellence

• Perform benchmark to identify gaps and gap closure ideas

• Develop contractor management plan

• Improve wrench time through implementation of advanced Planning & Scheduling practices

• Improve quality of work by developing CITGO craftsmen and proper contractor selection

• Support refinery reliability programs

• Perform wrench time assessments and implement recommendations

• Develop and maintain most cost-effective contractor strategy for each site

• Support turnaround initiatives

• Implementation of project cost control reports consistent across all sites

• Perform labor market assessments and develop mitigation plans

• Develop training plan to continuously develop maintenance supervision and craftsmen

• Create a positive and proactive teamwork culture, and other improvements to achieve and sustain maintenance excellence

• Apply maintenance excellence initiatives and consistency to each CITGO Refinery site