Maintenance Manager

Summary

The Maintenance Manager plans, organizes, and directs the plant maintenance functions including engineering, planning, mechanical/electrical leads, technicians, and stores inventory with the purpose of increasing overall equipment availability.  As the leader of the Maintenance Department, the Maintenance Manager reports to the Plant Manager.

What You’ll Do:

Manages, organizes, and direct plant maintenance functions (50%)

• Leading the annual development of the maintenance budget and efficiently managing ongoing spending
• Leading the continual improvement and utilization of the Company’s computer maintenance management system into the maintenance and production work system
• Providing leadership to the plant maintenance engineer, planner, and storeroom personnel
• Developing and implementing plans to reduce breakdowns, improve planned maintenance, optimize scheduled maintenance, and effectively execute down-day events
• Developing metrics and reporting systems necessary to track progress and identify key improvement areas across all manufacturing systems
• Maintaining the facility in a safe manner and to a standard level of equipment availability
• Reviewing and observing the work of the maintenance employees and directing development/training requirements
• Maintaining close contact with the Production Manager to ensure maintenance activities occur with minimal disruption to production operations
• Identifying the root cause of all electrical and mechanical down-time incidents
• Communicating individual, department, plant, and corporate performance to all levels of the maintenance organization
• Recommending and implementing improvements in maintenance and operational procedures

Development, implementation, and sustainability of a predictive and preventative maintenance system by (40%)

• Developing detailed job plans including the labor (type and quantity), materials, tools, and work procedures for repairs, alterations, and preventative maintenance to facilities and equipment to meet the objectives of the work request
• Setting-up and maintaining any preventive maintenance work orders, including job plans, frequency of work, crafts, man-hours, and parts/tools required
• Managing and maintaining the work flow process (work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and auditing)
• Entering all employee information, schedules, and exceptions in CMMS
• Maintaining work order backlog of work for specific areas of the plant
• Reviewing reports and taking appropriate action with regard to daily, weekly, and monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure that the department meets its respective expectations
• Leading the planning, scheduling, and execution of wash-up days
• Leading the Down Day-7, Down Day-3, and “What Went Right/What Went Wrong” meetings
• Conducting time studies to improve efficiency of production, maintenance, and clean-up crews as related to wash-up day performance
• Providing accurate man-hours for each wash-up day, by craft, to facilitate decision-making
• Generating purchase requests for non-stocked parts and tools to support the plan
• Developing storeroom organization surrounding parts kits, including shelving, locations, storage kits, and markings
• Working with storeroom personnel to ensure efficient inventory levels, availability of cost-effective and necessary parts
• Ensuring all work orders have parts kitted

Career development and training for the Maintenance Department by (10%)

• Ensuring that all technicians maintain required license and certifications; proficient with advancing technologies
• Evaluating skill sets of team as compared to operational and maintenance needs of the plant
• Developing and completing action plans to eliminate any skill gaps
• Implementing and leading any corporate-defined technician training initiatives

What You’ll Bring:

• BS Degree preferred in a technical or engineering discipline
• 8-10 years of experience in maintenance in a heavy industrial/high speed manufacturing environment (sheeted process systems such as paper, steel, gypsum is preferred not required)
• At least 5 years leading and developing employees, including succession planning
• At least 5 years of costing, budgeting and implementing processes to reduce/drive down maintenance expenses
• CMMS expertise
• Experience proposing, designing, implementing and improvement process step change
• Ability to think outside of the box to design maintenance solutions that save time/cost/manpower and improve safety
• Ability to influence leadership and shop personnel

What You’ll Receive:

• Compensation: competitive salary and bonus eligibility
• Insurance: day-one health coverage medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Paid Time Off: vacation and company holidays
• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match
• Investments: Employee Stock Purchase plan (ESP)
• Work-Life Balance: parental leave, wellness programs
• Purpose. Impact. Community: Sustainability Initiatives | James Hardie
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