Join us at Urenco USA (UUSA), where we're leading the way in nuclear energy innovation. Our state-of-the-art facility located in Eunice, NM, is the only large-scale commercial uranium enrichment facility in North America. We are actively looking for individuals who are ready to work collaboratively on-site in Eunice, NM, and we're pleased to offer relocation support to help make this opportunity accessible to talented individuals like you. Come be a part of the future of clean energy.
Summary of Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and direction for the site Maintenance organization, including Plant Controls and Energy Systems (PCES), Instrumentation & Controls (I&C), Electrical, Mechanical, Ancillary Maintenance, Maintenance Support, and Facilities functions. Responsible for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective execution of maintenance activities through the oversight of maintenance planning and scheduling, equipment reliability programs, maintenance support services, and contractor management.
The role ensures the continued reliability, availability and performance of site assets, working closely with Operations and Engineering to balance operational requirements, asset condition, risk and lifecycle needs. This includes maintaining design configuration, addressing equipment reliability and obsolescence issues, supporting asset lifecycle decisions, and identifying opportunities to improve asset performance and operational effectiveness.
The position is accountable for fostering a strong safety culture, developing organizational maintenance capability through workforce development and training, managing maintenance expenditure, and driving continuous improvement in maintenance performance and asset reliability. The role also supports the effective prioritization of maintenance resources and investment based on asset criticality, condition, performance and business risk.
Additionally, the role oversees facility-related contracts and services, including utilities, custodial services, grounds maintenance, warehousing, food services, and site vehicle/equipment programs, while ensuring compliance with regulatory, company, and industry requirements.
Education and Experience
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university
- 8+ years of related experience; of which at least 3 years include previous leadership experience and 4 years of responsible nuclear experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 10+ years prior engineering experience
Job Details
- Work Location: Eunice, NM Onsite
- Work Schedule: Professional work schedule/ with minimal night/ weekend support. Some nights and weekend work may be required. Employees are also subject to call-outs as needed.
- Travel Required: 20% of the time or less as required depending on business needs
- Security Clearance Requirement: CAA Access and an L or Q level security clearance
- Emergency Response Requirements: Emergency Response Organization (ERO) duty will be required; including being on-call (24/7) during your designated team duty week.
- Work Environment: Radiological exposure expectations of < 100 mrem/yr. General Office, Plant Production Areas. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets etc.
- Responsible for the protection of confidential and proprietary information received during employment, including keeping information in strict confidence, exercising a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others, not disclosing or divulging either directly or indirectly information to others, and not using the information commercially or for any other purpose other than the performance of their duties for Urenco. Confidential information includes information and data of any kind concerning any matters affecting or relating to Urenco business or operations, including compensation, investigations, financial controls, etc.
Primary Functions
- Develops and implements the Site Maintenance department strategic goals and objectives, aligning maintenance, reliability and asset management priorities with the company’s long-range business plan and asset performance requirements.
- Maintenance and reliability expert with experience in high-volume manufacturing environments; experience in regulated industries such as high-hazard chemical, pharmaceutical, or food manufacturing is highly preferred
- Aligns the Site Maintenance organization resources around daily operational needs, emergent issues, on-going maintenance activities, challenges to schedules, and the work place environment through regular and effective communication with Maintenance personnel.
- Ensures that Group standards/expectations, local health, safety and environmental guidelines and directives are implemented and understood through direct observation to ensure safety of people and resources.
- Ensures that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, trained and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect employees within P&C policies.
- Represents department by providing presentations and information to senior management on a regular basis to communicate status of pending maintenance and equipment performance and being accountable for project completions and achievement of compliance goals. Interacts with project teams and cross-functional groups as they impact the quality of plant maintenance or facility operation.
- Establishes procedures and performance metrics, including tracking, analysing and reporting performance in terms of safety, quality, cost, asset reliability and availability for areas of responsibility.
- Proposes and manages the annual site maintenance budget. Administers purchasing activities for areas of responsibility and monitors the costs and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources and determines actions to cost issues as necessary.
- Defines site maintenance policies and processes that drive the safe, reliable and cost-effective performance of plant, equipment and facilities throughout their lifecycle.
- Develops and implements asset lifecycle management processes for new and existing equipment, considering asset criticality, condition, reliability, obsolescence and business risk.
- Manage, develop and maintain systems to capture equipment performance and maintenance history. Analyze data to develop improvements that will limit downtime/maximize efficiencies.
- Responsible for the implementation of the work management (and outage management) processes for the site focusing on safety, cost and production in this order.
- Manages the site wide scheduling process with key stakeholders to ensure Plant priorities, needed resources, and planning preparations are aligned to support continued safe plant operations.
- Manages and operates a Preventive/Predictive Maintenance Program to efficiently plan, organize maintenance and capture an effective maintenance history of plant systems and components to provide for trending, predictive maintenance, and recommendations for improvement.
- Ensure materials and supplies necessary to perform site maintenance are identified and available sufficiently in advance as to not have an adverse effect on scheduled maintenance.
- Collaborates with the Engineering department in the definition of maintenance plans and recommends methods to improve reliability, ongoing maintenance and safety of equipment.
- Develops and proposes improvement projects for processes and production designed to improve environmental compliance requirements, safety, quality, and overall operation and service levels to customers.
- Establish and oversee various maintenance contracts such as gym and food services and other outsource functions to support the operating equipment and building/facilities maintenance
- Ensure all company off site assets, buildings and equipment are maintained as required.
- Manage the General Service Contractor for site support services and activities.
- Develop and control annual budgets for utilities, building grounds, maintenance contractors and facility maintenance equipment and warehousing including approving expenditures.
- Manage all physical plant waste storage and removal, including working with outside contractors, management and employees to ensure and maintain environmental, safety and health compliance in accordance with company policy and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor, audit and assess energy and space usage and recommend actions to maximize energy efficiency and effective use of space.
- Develop specifications, negotiate contracts, and direct external services providers, such as general contractors for janitorial services, lawn and landscaping maintenance and general construction.
- Manage resource planning, space allocation and layout, and budget for physical plant of UUSA’s campus.
- Ability to work with diverse groups, manage others, and coordinate/direct work of contractors
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills to facilitate communications with all levels of management, UUSA staff, regulators, vendors and consultants.
*Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Benefits
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Please note that we continually evaluate our plans and make adjustments as necessary to meet market and business requirements.
Compensation starting at: $ 200126 - $ 250158 / year and up dependent on candidate.
Urenco USA provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Urenco USA encourages protected veterans and persons with disabilities to apply. Urenco USA supports a drug free environment.
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Urenco USA |
A trusted leader in meeting the world’s demand for sustainable energy.
Urenco USA (UUSA) is part of an international company that operates on the cutting-edge of the nuclear energy industry, utilizing the world’s most advanced, energy-efficient, and cost-effective method to enrich uranium. As the only enrichment facility in North America, UUSA helps provide clean, sustainable energy while operating under a framework of high environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance standards. Our world-class facility is located in the middle of the EnergyPlex. We strive to promote the production of nuclear energy to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy while remaining dedicated to safety and investing in community outreach.
If you are already an employee of Urenco USA and are interested in applying for another job within the company, please apply and upload a completed Internal Candidate Application form (HR-2-3000-15-F-2), and your resume to the
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