Shutdown Planner Scheduler

In January 2024, Livent merged with Allkem Limited to create Arcadium Lithium plc. While we work to integrate our technology systems, including our recruitment platforms, Arcadium Lithium plc will use Livent’s ADP system to capture all candidate information.

About Arcadium Lithium:

We are change-makers, joining forces to drive progress. A world enabled by the critical mineral, Lithium - the elemental source powering modern life and our global transition to clean energy. 

Position Summary:  

Responsible for managing shutdown work requests, overseeing the backlog in SAP, planning work orders, procuring materials, and prioritizing and scheduling tasks to maximize process uptime. Develops and maintains comprehensive shutdown schedules, including capital projects, in coordination with maintenance teams, external resources, and other stakeholders. Focuses on minimizing material costs and optimizing the use of contract services. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Safety & Compliance: Support safety efforts within the maintenance department, actively participating in programs and systems to promote a safety culture at the site. Strictly adhere to safety standards, industrial hygiene, security/CTPAT requirements, and environmental policies.
• Risk Mitigation: Intervene promptly when unsafe acts or conditions are encountered, ensuring the well-being of all personnel.
• Auditing & Reporting: Perform Life Critical Audits and regularly audit compliance with safety standards. Promptly address any discrepancies and ensure continuous improvement in safety practices.
• Business Support: Identify and coordinate contractor needs, ensuring the timely scheduling of equipment and availability of required parts for maintenance activities.
• Maintenance Planning: Develop maintenance plans in alignment with plant procedures, standards, and national codes, utilizing design databases and SAP systems to acquire necessary equipment information.
• Work Order Management: Evaluate incoming maintenance requests, prioritize accordingly, close out completed work orders, and maintain the RS backlog with the other maintenance planners.
• Shutdown Management: Build and maintain shutdown calendars, develop maintenance schedules, and chair shutdown planning and daily update meetings. Manage contractor activities during shutdowns.
• Cost Reduction: Participate in cross-functional cost reduction activities for plant-managed purchases. Recommend and implement methods to reduce maintenance costs while improving equipment performance and safety.
• Quality Efforts: Support the area’s quality efforts, ensuring alignment with the site, Supply Chain, and divisional quality goals. Represent the area during quality meetings and assist with audits as needed.
• Resource Coordination: Inform the manager of key maintenance and business activities to ensure that resourcing and production requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Contractor Coordination: Manage and supervise contractors across various crafts during and outside of shutdowns, ensuring their work is completed according to safety standards and project timelines.
• SAP and Data Management: Utilize MRP within SAP to maintain master data for plans and materials, and estimate costs related to personnel, parts, and supplies for scheduled maintenance.

Education and Experience 

• High School Diploma or equivalent with five years of chemical process maintenance experience and general knowledge of plant systems, processes, and procedures, or
• Associate’s degree with three years of maintenance or project planning experience.
• Basic working knowledge of the Materials Management and Production Planning modules in SAP.
• Proficiency in Excel and Word Processing software (Microsoft Office, including Access).
• Willingness to learn Microsoft Project.

Safety Requirements: (position and location specific) 

All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to always encourage and support safe work practices, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.

Physical Demands: (position and location specific) 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.

Work Environment: (position and location specific) 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Personal Protective Equipment – (position specific) 

Must wear PPE as required based on job duties or when traveling to locations where PPE is essential.