Maintenance Manager

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The Maintenance Manager supports the Real Estate and Facilities (RE&F) department by optimizing the company’s Maintenance Management. This includes monitoring and improving maintenance practices ensuring Data Center equipment uptime. Also includes coordinating and scheduling specific long term maintenance activities for the critical assets ensuring the successful 24X7 operation of each site, as directed by the Director, Maintenance and Reliability.

The Maintenance Manager also assists in the development of methods to optimize scheduled maintenance, maintenance training, verify follow‑up work is identified/executed as well as auditing proper completion and effectiveness of performed maintenance.

• Function as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all aspects of Preventive and Corrective Maintenance. Focus on all maintenance processes to reduce potential equipment failures.
• Maintain Scopes of Service on all equipment types specifying intervals and tasks necessary to properly maintain Data Center and Facilities equipment. Determine what can be accomplished with internal or external resources.
• Oversee the inventory management program specifically identification of the proper critical spare parts, on‑hand quantities, reorder points and the program effectiveness.
• Serve as the project manager for long‑term maintenance events, such as: high voltage substations, switch gear, transformers, etc.
• Develop and maintain the company’s maintenance training program to ensure proper skill levels for internal technicians to optimize maintenance performance.
• Create an audit program to evaluate the overall maintenance program to include: evidence of proper maintenance, training, adequate parts on‑hand, Mean‑Time‑To‑Repair.
• Maintain the appropriate policies and procedures regarding maintenance management.
• Maintain the Master multi‑year maintenance schedule to ensure scheduling of all required PMs within the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Coordinate the schedule with site Maintenance Coordinators for deconfliction and optimum timing with other activities.
• Coordinate with Asset Manager to evaluate for TCO effectiveness and budgeting for maximizing asset expected lifetimes.
• Provide feedback to the Asset Management group on vendor performance.
• Review problem databases to evaluate the effectiveness of the maintenance system for reducing equipment failures. Includes tracking needed corrective work.
• Coordinate feedback related to maintenance and collaborate with cross functional teams for continuous improvement of internal processes.
• Identify opportunities to increase equipment reliability and uptime, reduce costs and associated work. Recommend where PdM could replace PM tasks.
• Participate in any root cause analysis events as they relate to maintenance activities.
• Monitor PM cost tracking in the CMMS. Provide feedback for budgeting for PM activities. Evaluate for cost saving opportunities and provide input to management.
• Create and maintain reports and dashboards as required in the CMMS to ensure effective evaluation of maintenance processes and improving efficiencies
• Recommend metrics which will measure team performance as well as individual task performance and vendor performance. Coordinate across multiple departments and sites to collect proper data.
• Create, deploy, and share best practices at the facility level and share with other sites.
• Attend annual maintenance related conferences as required.

• Knowledge of Mechanical,…