Maintenance Manager

Competencies

Maintenance Manager II

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 directs plant maintenance functions by: 

• Leading the annual development of the maintenance budget and efficiently managing ongoing spending
• 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
• Communicating individual, department, plant, and corporate performance to all levels of the maintenance organization
• Recommending and implementing improvements in maintenance and operational procedures
• Touring the plant and all facilities to interact with production, quality, safety, and maintenance to help drive cultural change and to ensure appropriate work is being performed and that customers’ needs are being meet.

Leads the development, implementation, and sustainability of a predictive and preventative maintenance system by:

• Managing and maintaining the work flow process (work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and auditing);
• Cleaning up, evaluating, and managing the backlog; and
• Capturing and recording necessary equipment and material history.
• 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
• Reviewing previous day’s work packages to check for follow-up work and to ensure work orders are correctly closed
• Leading the Down Day-7, Down Day-3, and “What Went Right/What Went Wrong” meetings
• 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 availability of cost-effective and necessary parts
• Working with storeroom personnel to ensure efficient inventory level maintenance
• Ensuring all work orders have parts kitted.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering preferred).
• 3 or more years of maintenance manager experience in a continuous operating (24/7) manufacturing environment.
• Experience with a computer maintenance management system (CMMS)
• 1 or more years of Planning/Scheduling hands-on experience (preferred).
• Working knowledge of PLC programming and troubleshooting (preferred).

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
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