Maintenance Superintendent, South Casting

Overview

Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D, Sales and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), and Inside Sales in the Cleveland, OH area.

We are seeking to add a talented Maintenance Superintendent to our Casting Maintenance team. The purpose of this role is to lead and provide direction for the execution of plans for the Casting area. This includes the oversight of the weekly and daily maintenance planning activities, as well as the scheduled outages. This position will monitor and keep production running with the task of maximizing productivity and quality;

engage the team to drive a continuous improvement to eliminate waste, overburden and variability in manufacturing processes; act as a role model for safety by demonstrating behaviors that align with the Commonwealth safety principles and hold the team accountable for results; and provides leadership, direction, coaching and development to motivate and sustain high levels of employee performance.

• Leverage the Commonwealth Safety System and Safety Principles to create a zero injury culture.
• Implement and support processes that reveal safety hazards, and develop sustainable corrective actions.
• Ensure that company policies and procedures are being executed by his/her team in order to ensure compliance with all health, safety and environmental regulations (zero EPA non-compliances).
• Ensure the team is being retrained on the relevant safety procedures in accordance with the HSE Department’s schedule.

• Implement and monitor proactive maintenance work methods, utilizing preventative and predictive maintenance tools.
• Ensure that the daily production goals for throughput, quality, target date and cost are being supported by his or her team.
• Ensure that a safe job execution has priority over a quick job execution.
• Ensure maximum uptime performance of all production centers in the assigned area of accountability through efficient use of available resources and according to production planning priorities.
• Maintain awareness of all equipment issues in your assigned area. Develop plans and repair this equipment with a high sense of urgency.
• Ensure communication across shifts and with production occurs regarding production concerns, overtime, manning, status of work assignments or any other item that may impact production.
• Ensure deviations from the standard process are effectively communicated to the relevant people/functions.
• Schedule layered process audits (LPAs) to improve quality, reduce scrap and rework and reduced internal and external customer rejections.
• Ensure all preventive maintenance (PMs), work orders and other assigned tasks delegated, documented and completed on time.
• Drive consistent PED Steps for all outage, rebuild and repair events.
• Manage outage, capital and expense budgets according to area maintenance objectives.

• Engage with his/her team to develop and implement standard work.
• Engage his/her team to drive a continuous improvement culture to eliminate waste, overburden and variability in manufacturing processes to enhance equipment reliability.
• Lead and/or participate in productivity, safety and quality improvement projects through process adherence and the use of RCFA methodology.
• Manage and prioritize performance gap reporting (PGR). Ensure timely completion of PGR driven tasks.
• Develops solutions for process improvement, cost reduction and yield improvement.
• Implement the Reliability Roadmap objectives in assigned area.

• Provides effective leadership to inspire employees to perform at high levels.
• Set and communicate clear performance standards and hold direct reports accountable for results.
• Conduct performance appraisals and maintain performance metrics to monitor direct reports’ results; identify and initiate improvements for development and/or training.
• Provide on-going coaching, feedback and development to increase direct reports’…