Manager, Operations Maintenance and Warehouse

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world's energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Role Summary:

(OMS)This role serves as the liaison between the Operations and Maintenance departments to ensure that all work requests for maintenance and operational resources are reviewed for impact and justification prior to approval. This role ensures that all work, including HSSE, regulatory, quality, and reliability work, adds value and is prioritized in the most cost-effective way.

Additionally, this role is responsible for the creation and maintenance of material master's and providing regional governance over procurement master data as a team member of the corporate Master Data Group. The Warehouse Manager integrates data provided by Engineering, Plant Maintenance, and Materials Management staff through interaction with these other regional groups and with a focus on compiling and maintaining accurate, consistent, robust, and timely data. The creation and maintenance of this data as supported and managed through the operating model for master data will provide increased production to by reducing down time of equipment by increasing the accuracy of material needs. Material Master and Bill of Material (BOM) integration is paramount to the overall success of a well planned Maintenance work order and success of the operational units. The position provides Warehouse support, has a technical aptitude of materials for easy communications with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Turnaround staff, and has a clear understanding of best-in-class Warehouse inventory and Materials management practices.

OMS Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Ensures optimal use of maintenance resources. Liaison between Operations and Maintenance to prioritize and schedule work orders
• Initiates necessary work orders to ensure the safe and timely completion of critical jobs.
• Communicates operational equipment scheduling needs to maintenance supervisor and scheduler and negotiates necessary schedule changes.
• Verifies the accuracy and completeness of work orders.
• Ensures the appropriate priority is assigned to work orders.
• Ensures the requested work creates value relative to the current business environment.
• Assigning priorities relative to required completion dates.
• Participate in field reviews as necessary.
• Reviewing and providing direction for changes in start dates based on Operations daily orders/business needs
• Continually review notifications and work order backlogs to ensure jobs are on the daily and weekly Maintenance schedule in a timely fashion such that regulatory and safety requirements are maintained, and reliability of the unit is not jeopardized.
• Ensures all necessary reliability data has been entered.
• Participate in Engineering and Maintenance backlog reviews and prioritization.
• Participating in the development and adherence to maintenance schedules by maintaining prioritized list of jobs
• Review preliminary schedules to ensure they meet the needs of the process units and are in line with the maintenance budget.
• Acts as liaison between operations and maintenance groups on any problems adhering to the schedule.
• Providing schedule information Management for equipment preparation needs.
• Regularly reviews the status of current spending vs. the Maintenance budget, schedules work priorities to reduce Overtime and meet the Sites set target and notifying Management of any expected overages.
• Participate in the identification and implementation of reliability driven improvements.
• Routinely audits maintenance jobs for improvements in permitting, equipment preparation or job preparation.
• And other duties as assigned.

Warehouse Manager responsibilities

• And other duties as assigned.
• Transact all aspects of Materials Management and Inventory Control
• Supervises warehouse personnel
• Maintaining accurate and complete material master data
• Communicate effectively with all levels of management and maintenance and turnaround teams
• Coordinate the Material Master Creation/Updates and including:
• Master data adheres to defined standards, is complete, and highly accurate at time of creation.
• Provide direction in the development of controls, processes and procedures to ensure effective maintenance and integrity of material master data.
• Ensure early engagement of both a Project Management and Engineering representative and Plant Maintenance representatives for all requested master data creation and maintenance.
• Gather data and review all recommended inventory stocking levels for material Master's to ensure the optimal levels are maintained to ensure safe and effective operation.
• Populate Key Performance Indicators, statistics for master data creations, extensions, changes and deletions (e.g. turnaround time, customer satisfaction, data integrity,
• Work in a variety of settings from office to warehouse to field installations in all types of weather as needed for effective management of the master data.

Position Requirements:

Education: High School Diploma

Experience

• Minimum five (5) plus years of plant/refinery operations experience
• Specific refinery experience preferred but not required.
• Possess and demonstrate a thorough technical understanding of plant processes and unit operations (technical process expert).
• 5+ years of experience in a Materials Management or Master Data related role
• 3+ years of Supervisory skills
• Leadership skills
• A knowledge of Material Management practices (inventory control, kitting and staging)
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in written and verbal communication in the English language
• Extensive user level knowledge of one of the following: JD Edwards or other CMS software
• Demonstrated knowledge of BOM creation practices
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a team structure to achieve set objectives and deliverables
• Strong ability to multitask and handle multiple priorities and short timelines-ability to work with many projects simultaneously
• Excellent prioritization skills - demonstrated ability to strategically work on key priorities and to seek help if things are not going as planned or as needed to achieve results
• Conflict Resolution Skills - Ability to resolve conflicts with diplomacy as they arise
• Detail-oriented to ensure that information is correctly processed
• Ability to write requisitions to maintain warehouse stock
• Ability to build and maintain warehouse budget
• Ability to operate forklifts as needed

Travel Requirements

• 10% travel.

Certificates & Licenses

• None required.

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills are required due to the frequent interaction with department personnel and other functional groups.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and when handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

People First Culture:

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers. Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams. We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us.

Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.