Maintenance Manager

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Manage the maintenance process to safely optimize plant equipment availability to meet business goals at the lowest overall long-term cost for the facility.

This position is based at an active mine site and requires daily onsite presence. Work conditions may include uneven terrain, climbing ladders, navigating steps, and exposure to varying weather conditions such as heat, rain, or mud.

• Ensure teammates perform work according to established safety rules and practices while striving for ZERO Accidents.
• Ensure teammates have the appropriate tools and training to perform tasks in a safe manner.
• Encourage identification of Near Misses along with appropriate corrective actions.
• Develop an autonomous maintenance program with zero accidents and zero breakdowns while operating in a tightly controlled fiscal position.
• Develop maintenance management tools and practices
• Continuously improve processes and activities that deliver business performance
• Develop process and maintenance improvements
• Lead weekly review of maintenance priorities to meet projected maintenance requirements
• Develop budget and control cost for maintenance and capital
• Prepare reports and analyze performance
• Manage JDE system to effectively use.
• Forecast replacement capital needs. Coordinate projects as assigned.
• Meet plant operating maintenance cost budgets
• Develop and track KPI’s focused on availability of key process equipment
• Interface with purchasing to manage parts inventory
• Identify and communicate KPI’s.
• Develop maintenance practices and procedures
• Schedule and plan workforce and skills
• Manage site contractors
• Partnership with process and department managers served by maintenance.
• Develop skills of subordinates and maintenance teammates as needed.
• Provide backup/replacement for reporting teammates including other related duties as assigned.

• Experience with an ERP Manufacturing system
• 2 years’ experience in maintenance management, maintenance engineering or maintenance reliability preferred.

• Experience with development and use of preventative and predictive maintenance systems.
• Experience with development and implementation of lubrication programs.
• Knows technology required to operate and maintain equipment such as crushers, kilns, mills, screens, fans, pumps, blowers, belt conveyors, pneumatic conveyors, packaging lines, bag houses, cyclones, burners, electrical distribution, spray systems, waste systems, piping, computerized controls, dozers, hydraulic loaders, trucks etc.
• Experienced in maintenance planning, analysis, forecasting, administration, and documentation, work order management, parts management, preventative, predictive and condition-based maintenance technologies, and in system to manage this work plant-wide.
• Proficient in excel spreadsheet development, word processing, mathematical skills, computer skills and reasoning ability required.
• Possess core values of Honesty and Integrity.
• 401(k) with 6% match (Fully Vested at 2 Years)
• Annual Incentive Bonus
• Annual Merit increase opportunity
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Holidays
• Fitness & Gym Reimbursement

Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for consumer and business-to-business markets that has been voted as a Top 100 workplaces in the Chicago Tribune. Oil-Dri’s products are sold in the pet care, animal health, fluids purification, agricultural, sports field, industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri controls millions of tons of specialty mineral reserves, including calcium bentonite, attapulgite, and diatomaceous shale.

The company’s mines and manufacturing facilities are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and California. Oil-Dri is a family-controlled and operated organization that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and accountability. The company is dedicated to fulfilling its mission to Create Value From Sorbent Minerals.

Oil-Dri is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and qualified candidates without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs such as hiring, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, transfers, reductions in workforce, and training, etc.

will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Engineering, Manufacturing, and Management

Mining and Manufacturing