Maintenance Manager

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Balchem Corporation, and its subsidiaries, offers a competitive salary and benefits package and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Balchem is committed to making the world a healthier place by delivering trusted, innovative, and science-based solutions for the health and nutritional needs of the world. Balchem employs approximately 1,400 employees worldwide who provide the service, quality, and technology that enables our customers to win with their customers. We have built a reputation for delivering results to all of our stakeholders.

Founded in 1967, Balchem, a Maryland corporation, became a publicly-traded company in 1970 and is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “BCPC.” Our corporate headquarters is located in Montvale, New Jersey, and we have a broad network of sales offices, manufacturing sites, and R&D centers, primarily located in the U.S. and Europe. The Company consists of three business segments:
Human Nutrition and Health, Animal Nutrition and Health, and Specialty Products.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for providing the leadership, guidance, support and direction for the maintenance staff. This position provides management and coordination of the maintenance activities associated with the following: all plant electrical control and mechanical systems, which are associated with plant utility, production operations, equipment and processing. The position will provide technical assistance and training for the maintenance staff and will actively interface with the Engineering and Plant Operations managers.

The Maintenance Manager will advise and work with Operations management to resolve critical control and processing capability issues. A thorough knowledge of processing, plant mechanical and automation is expected to successfully manage this position.

• Strong leadership skills are required. The individual should be self-directed with minimal supervision required, Responsible for effective employee management duties including manpower utilization, timelines, scheduling and conflict resolution and able to communicate effectively with the maintenance staff.
• Able to evaluate the performance and abilities of the maintenance staff, set realistic employee objectives, and provide the support necessary to reach these goals in accordance with the company's needs and directives.
• Convey pertinent status information regarding work orders, repairs and maintenance activities to Operations Plant Manager.
• Utilize and continuously upgrade Preventive Maintenance program utilizing our FIXX software for proper documentation and procedural requirements. This will include establishing equipment requirements, manpower, and time intervals to generate schedules for equipment overhauls, major inspections, etc.
• Utilize the MP2 Maintenance Software to report and analyze labor efficiency, equipment deficiencies, and to establish required inventory levels of spare and repair parts.
• Manage all equipment changes/installations to insure timely and in-budget completion of all projects.
• Provide technical training and support for all plant employees involving electrical, control and automation.
• Adopt a formal approach to engineering matters and use 'Critical Path Analysis" for planning and implementing projects both internally and with outside contractors.
• Responsible to develop SCADA, MMI, historical trending and database transfer applications controlling plant processes or equipment.
• Oversee the purchasing of spare and repair parts from OEM’s and other vendors utilizing ERP system (Microsoft D-365) to create purchase orders.
• Required to have a working fluent knowledge to use software packages on a personal computer i.e.:
  Excel, Word, NT 4.0,…