Summary:
This position is responsible for providing leadership for the maintenance group with a focus on continuous improvement of maintenance safety, productivity, mean time between failures, and uptime. Position will develop robust processes and organizational skill to sustain high-performance standards and continuous improvement while maintaining a high level of safety, facility production and facility equipment according to predictive and productive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the sites business goals and objectives.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the interaction of maintenance work in the plant process areas.
- Recommends budgets to management, including staff use, technology, facility, and equipment requirements or improvements.
- Performing and directing Root Cause Analysis for equipment/systems
- Troubleshoot problem equipment.
- Approve MOCs (Management of Change)
- Design PM programs and other predictive measures to improve up-time and productivity.
- Identify and resolve repeat failure issues.
- Specify equipment for replacement or improvement.
- Accountable for turnaround coordination
- Make decisions about how/whether to repair equipment.
- Manage unit spare parts Stores inventory (completeness and efficiency)
- Schedule and oversee internal and external contractors.
- Improve maintenance KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) including maintenance safety, downtime, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and productivity.
- Estimate and prepare AR's for capital projects performed by maintenance.
- Develop and maintain maintenance procedures.
- Additional duties may vary.
Qualifications:
- Experience in leading and ensuring compliance with safety initiatives, with the ability to lead a team to a high level of safety performance.
- Familiarity with the function and operation of mechanical hardware and/or packaging equipment or material handling equipment
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Strong work ethic, good judgment, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work in a collaborative and team-based environment.
- Excellent written, reporting, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize responsibilities and multi-task.
Education/Experience:
- Preferred, BS in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 10 years manufacturing experience with 5 years in a Chemical Manufacturing Environment
- At least 5 years' experience managing a team in a Manufacturing Environment.
Physical Requirements:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands, and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.
- The vision requirements include close vision and ability to adjust focus. Employees must be able to stand for long periods of time.
Working Environment:
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essentials functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to the typical plant environment with no air conditioning or heaters. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.