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Burns Harbor, IN Cleveland-Cliffs Steel has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Maintenance Specialist at our Burns Harbor, Indiana location. The ideal candidate would manage, lead, and direct the electrical maintenance hourly workforce and support contractors in a designated area across a 24-hour operation in our Maintenance, Environmental & Utilities (MEU) division. They will coordinate all maintenance activities on assigned shifts or multiple shifts within a single operations department or unit. They will be responsible for safety, housekeeping, turn operations, breakdown response, maintenance planning, and downturn work execution as outlined below.
Summary of Responsibilities :
Be available 24/7 to diagnose and troubleshoot programming and electrical issues and provide technical expertise on all aspects of a high-voltage electrical distribution system for a heavy manufacturing facility. Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and maintenance activities within or between departments. Coordinate and monitor the electrical work of external contractors for the purpose of ensuring that projects are satisfactorily completed in a timely manner. Maintain spares inventory with a primary focus on the plant electrical distribution system components (medium/high voltage breakers, cubicles, switchgear, transformers, rectifiers, etc). Ensure compliance with all safety, quality, and environmental standards.
Location:
Burns Harbor, IN Cleveland-Cliffs Steel has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Maintenance Specialist at our Burns Harbor, Indiana location. The ideal candidate would manage, lead, and direct the electrical maintenance hourly workforce and support contractors in a designated area across a 24-hour operation in our Maintenance, Environmental & Utilities (MEU) division. They will coordinate all maintenance activities on assigned shifts or multiple shifts within a single operations department or unit. They will be responsible for safety, housekeeping, turn operations, breakdown response, maintenance planning, and downturn work execution as outlined below.
Summary of Responsibilities :
Be available 24/7 to diagnose and troubleshoot programming and electrical issues and provide technical expertise on all aspects of a high-voltage electrical distribution system for a heavy manufacturing facility. Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and maintenance activities within or between departments. Coordinate and monitor the electrical work of external contractors for the purpose of ensuring that projects are satisfactorily completed in a timely manner. Maintain spares inventory with a primary focus on the plant electrical distribution system components (medium/high voltage breakers, cubicles, switchgear, transformers, rectifiers, etc). Ensure compliance with all safety, quality, and environmental standards. Create, read, and analyze charts, work orders, blueprints, electrical drawings and diagrams, production schedules, and other records and reports. Recommend and/or perform predictive, preventive, and emergency maintenance on equipment. Analyze and interpret blueprints, schematics, and drawings of electrical systems to work closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, and other technical resources to drive results. Supervise a crew of hourly maintenance employees, and uphold and enforce safety, environmental, job procedures, and maintain general discipline of the crew. Communicate with upstream and downstream operations and non-Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. contractors to coordinate work, deliveries, and service. Enforce safety regulations, conduct daily safety communications, monitor monthly safety activities, and conduct safety inspections as needed. This position is primarily scheduled for days, but pre-scheduled outage work will require occasional backturn coverage to ensure proper execution. Rotating weekend/holiday coverage is required. Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Three (3) years' experience as an electrical maintenance supervisor in a heavy industrial environment. Associate or Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering/electrical engineering technology or High school diploma/GED and five (5) years electrical maintenance supervisory experience. Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
Five (5) years' experience as an electrical maintenance supervisor in a heavy industrial environment, preferably in a high-voltage electrical distribution system environment. Knowledge of industrial power equipment - transformers, switchgear -up to 13.8kv DC&AC drives, including variable speed AC drives Programmable Logic Controllers. Experience with scheduling, coordinating, and executing standardized preventive maintenance practices on high-voltage electrical distribution systems and tracking same with detailed reports and record-keeping discipline. Experience with managing electrical upgrade projects. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including competitive pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off and more. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to careers@clevelandcliffs.com or call 1(312) 899-3097 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Do not email your application materials to this email address. Application materials sent to this email address will not be considered.
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