Manager, Metals Maintenance

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McPherson KS

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of the Metals Maintenance department, including supervising, training, and scheduling maintenance personnel. Developed and implemented departmental policies, procedures, and preventive maintenance programs to improve efficiency, equipment reliability, and safety. Managed departmental budgets, controlled costs, and allocated resources to support operational goals. Coordinated maintenance activities to minimize downtime, ensure timely repairs, and maintain regulatory compliance.

Collaborated with vendors, contractors, and cross-functional departments to support efficient operations, ensure timely maintenance services, and consistently deliver exceptional customer service and operational excellence

What You'll Do:

Management

• Manage, select, train, motivate, review, coach, develop and retain a high-performance team.
• Provides leadership, direction, and oversight for multiple highly technical teams within the Metals organization, driving collaboration, operational excellence, and the successful delivery of business objectives.
• Identifies key members of the team and develops succession plans accordingly.
• Works with minimal supervision and is responsible for makingan established range of decisions, escalating to the director when necessary.
• Conduct timely and accurate employee performance evaluation; address performance issues as needed.
• Analyzes, defines, prioritizes, communicates, and manages workload for staff based on business priorities, ROI and schedule.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures and intra-departmental communications; maintain managerial relationships by encouraging and providing a timely, two-way flow of information between subordinates, management, and user groups.
• Participate in operational meetings as required or necessary.
• Manages all aspects of team performance, including execution, resource optimization, talent development, and continuous process improvement to support organizational success.
• Motivate staff to improve quality of work performed and provide training and development opportunities as needed.
• Ensure compliance in Health, Environment & Safety/Quality in all areas of operations; ensure company policies and guidelines, as set forth in the Corporate Human Resources Policy manual are followed; maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Assist with the development of the departmental budget; approve and manage expenditure; forecast short and long-range budgeting needs; ensure expenditure is aligned with approved budget.
• Develop organizational strategies, analysis, and recommendations for corrective maintenance department; ensure objectives align with organizational objectives; continually evaluate existing processes to determine areas of improvement.
• Develop processes for follow-up; ensure team provides excellent customer service.
• Initiates, guides, manages and implements continuous improvement initiatives within all areas of responsibility using tools like Lean Six Sigma.

Budget

• Build and manage the annual budget for the department including headcount.
• Assists with purchasing necessary equipment, licenses, and services for department.

Equipment Maintenance

• Develops, implements, and manages strategic oversight of comprehensive preventive and corrective maintenance programs for high-complexity metals production equipment. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering, operations, reliability, and maintenance teams to establish standardized maintenance strategies, optimize equipment reliability and lifecycle performance, minimize downtime, and drive continuous improvement in asset management and operational excellence.
• Helps develop predictive maintenance strategies while aligned with the reliability team.
• Meets with cross-functional teams to identify issues, problems or concerns; gather feedback; determine or recommend appropriate corrective action; follow up to ensure customer quality and satisfaction.
• Manages all aspects of repair activities, projects, high-complexity equipment maintenance, work orders, daily operations, and inventory requirements. Ensures work is completed safely, efficiently, and within established specifications while maintaining accurate documentation, inspection records, and compliance with operational standards.
• Manages work order process for all corrective and preventative maintenance; recommend improvements and gather required data for metric development.
• Provides project management, analysis, and consulting using industry…