Maintenance and Reliabilty Manager

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is responsible for the leadership and management of the mechanical and electrical maintenance teams along with the maintenance and reliability team. Additionally, they have responsibility for the reliability management. The Maintenance & Reliability Manager works closely with operations to identify issues and opportunities and to respond quickly to problems. The incumbent utilizes the skills of their team to efficiently resolve issues, complete projects, and manage cost to create value for the organization.

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager reports to the Assistant General Manager.

• Maintenance & Reliability Manager will place emphasis on planning/scheduling, preventative/predictive maintenance, reliability, spare part availability and stocking level optimization to optimize equipment availability, minimize unplanned downtime and equipment failures, and maintain functional buildings and grounds.
• Manage the overall day to day activities of the Maintenance & Reliability Departments
• Partner with Operations and OpEx to achieve asset safety, quality and productivity while achieving goals and targets.
• Ensure that safety rules and regulations are well known, understood, and applied while ensuring equipment meets safety guidelines and regulations
• Initiates, implements and manages the plant Maintenance Work Order System and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to prioritize, plan, and schedule maintenance work efficiently while minimizing maintenance cost and equipment downtime, as well as identify improvement opportunities
• Initiates, implements and manages the plant Stores System to ensure part availability for planned maintenance work and unplanned/emergency repairs
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, make recommendations and implements maintenance activities for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related problems
• Works with Mill Leadership to properly prioritize maintenance work and ensure proper maintenance resource allocation for allotted asset downtime
• Initiates and implements programs to track, analyze and improve key maintenance metrics including asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, and other
• Ensure proper workmanship to team members, performance recognition and disciplinary actions, completes performance reviews to maintain compliance with HR requirements
• Allocate resources to respond to all unplanned and emergency downtime on equipment as required to efficiently and quickly resume operations
• Development and administration of the Maintenance and Capital Budgets
• Manages the Facility, Building and Grounds Preventative Maintenance and Service contracts for the Mill
• Every employee must implement Kruger environmental policy in their daily tasks. In particular, employees are responsible to abide by legal and corporate environmental requirements and must adhere to all environmental procedures. Every employee is responsible to report all environmental incidents and any potential environmental hazards. All supervisory personnel are responsible to ensure that their employees have the needed competencies to apply the operating procedures so that environmental controls are adequately implemented

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical and/or Engineering field preferred
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment in various Maintenance and Reliability supervisory roles
• Strong knowledge of CMMS systems, work order systems and related system/software including SAP
• Strong knowledge of work management processes, labor estimating, resource balancing
• Good working knowledge of facilities and industrial equipment and O&M requirements
• Understanding of OSHA safety requirements, practices and procedures
• Knowledge of skilled trades, equipment fabrication, electricity and electronics, mechanics, PLC’s, machine drives, pneumatics, hydraulics, plumbing and pipe fitting
• Working knowledge of preventative maintenance and reliability improvement programs.
• Excellent communication skills including both verbal and written.
• Ability to effectively lead work teams as well as work as a team member
• Organiz…