Maintenance Manager

Education And Experience Requirements

Requires 5 or more years of diversified experience in plant, equipment and machine maintenance, CMMS operations, including setting up preventive/predictive maintenance programs, repairing and rebuilding machines, installing all types of plant and production equipment and machines, performing and/or supervising electrical, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, sheet metal and other work, training and supervising all categories of maintenance personnel and some experience with contractors and vendors on various aspects of construction, installation and procurement of maintenance supplies, tools, and equipment.

Requires analytical effort, initiative, ingenuity and judgment in planning and directing machine and equipment repairs, installation and maintenance of plant utilities, equipment and production machines. Has latitude and responsibility to handle any emergency maintenance problems. Assistance is available from Manager and others on more complex problems. Requires knowledge of all phases of plant and equipment maintenance involving production machines and equipment;

electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, blower, exhaust, plumbing and power supply systems; compressors, air conditioning and heating systems. Must have knowledge of building trades including carpentry, masonry and general construction and ability in using electrical and mechanical principles, charts, tables, drawings, mathematics and various preventive maintenance techniques. Knowledge of basic principles of supervision and leadership, planning and scheduling of work assignments, handling of personnel problems is essential.

Prefer a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. Minimum requirements are high school education plus a two‑year technical degree or military equivalent.

Under the general direction of the Plant Manager, lead and manage all categories of maintenance involving machines, equipment, plant and office facilities and grounds. Improve the effectiveness of the department’s preventive and predictive maintenance programs. Maximize the use and benefits from the existing CMMS. Create a learning environment that provides the opportunity for maintenance personnel to improve their skills to better maintain the plant’s equipment and processes.

Focus the maintenance group on improving equipment uptime and machine reliability in order to meet the plant goals and objectives.

• Supervise the activities of all maintenance personnel, including four salaried maintenance supervisors, two controls engineers, and one automation engineer. Work involves functions such as machine installations and repair, machining parts for repair of equipment, welding, brazing, soldering, sheet metal work, electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, painting, concrete work, preventive and predictive maintenance, office maintenance.
• Train subordinates, assign and check work, maintain discipline and enforce safety and good housekeeping regulations. Recommend hiring, dismissals, transfers and upgrading. Establish good personnel relations and ensure continuous maintenance of high morale, efficiency and harmonious operations. Rate personnel performance in accordance with established procedures. Ensure strict adherence to the company rules and regulations.
• Receive and/or personally prepare work orders. Plan, schedule and assign work and keep close check on progress in order to have the minimum possible interruption of normal activities in the plant and offices. Work from drawings and sketches provided by plant engineering and/or make sketches of work to be done, estimate labor costs and calculate materials required. Coordinate the work on major projects to ensure that assigned tasks are performed according to established schedules.
• Normally will have knowledge of wages of subordinate and may have information regarding proposed construction or installations and personnel relations problems.
• Errors in analysis, judgment and calculations in working on job estimates and on approaches to the solution of machine/equipment installation, repair or…