Our client is the Specialty Polymers site of a chemical company, with revenues exceeding €10 billion and an EBITDA greater than €2 billion. This demonstrates their strong market position and financial stability within the chemical industry.
Key Challenges
- Design, review and implement a new functional organisation in the Maintenance department
- Increase efficiency via a structured methodology to manage Work Order Process and maintenance activities
- Bottom line benefits objective of 2,1M€ in 3 years
Approach
- Review and enhance the internal Maintenance Excellence methodology, aligning it with local current and future organisation
- Define and validate the 1,5-year tactical implementation plan, generating local buy in and empowering local change agents
- Manage and coordinate the critical ramp up phase of implementation, providing coaching to maintenance team and to change agents (coach-the-coach approach)
- Support site management team in developing and embedding the required continuous improvement culture, and coach its use and dissemination
Results
- 260K€/y benefits achieved via overtime reduction and renegotiation of main contractors’ service-level agreements
- New organizational structure, roles & responsibilities, meeting cascade, KPIs implemented in the 3 maintenance areas, involving 100 employees
- PCS tools and methodologies validated, installed and coached on a daily basis
