Maintenance Manager

Position:
Maintenance Manager

Location:

North Kansas City, MO

Primary function:
Ensure the reliability and availability of assets and structures assigned to the plant, utilizing the IPS management/Reliability system method. This involves managing area activities, providing technical supervision, and engaging in strategic maintenance planning in the medium to long term.

• Lead the development and management of reliability and capacity increase projects within the designated area.
• Support engineering in capex prioritization efforts, consolidating and validating core equipment, and contributing to startup plans.
• Manage costs and employ reliability practices to ensure optimized execution of activities with excellence, meeting minimum maintenance quality requirements, and maximizing resource utilization.
• Integrate resource and asset planning with S&OP to achieve efficiency and productivity goals across long, medium, and short-term horizons.
• Manage maintenance and contractor costs effectively.
• Demonstrate competency in managing key reliability and maintenance indicators, fostering personnel development, implementing routines, and cultivating an understanding of KPI management.
• Oversee active outsourced contracts and collaborate with purchasing to develop new supplier relationships.
• Lead asset reliability efforts, deploying new technologies or management methods to extend asset lifespan and minimize non-value-added activities.
• Utilize methodologies such as Six Sigma and Applied Statistics, Predictive/Proactive Analysis & Tools, RCM, FMEA, WCM Advanced Tools, and Digital Manufacturing.
• Ensure safety, adherence to cost targets, people upskilling and factory productivity while upholding quality standards.
• Serve as an interface between maintenance units or departments, coordinating resource allocation for execution, including purchase orders, service contracts, and immediate purchases.
• Ensure adherence to standardized maintenance strategy development, in line with ISO systems.
• Manage the preventive maintenance planned downtime calendar for the factory's machinery, equipment, and processes, prioritizing based on criticality and providing regional visibility for these events.
• Provide support activities for the maintenance department, including analysis of technical documentation, conducting specific studies, preparing graphs and machine stoppage reports, updating management tables, and controlling statistics and indicators.
• Collaborate with the IT and procurement departments to oversee projects that align maintenance operations with the Industry 4.0 framework, expediting decision-making processes and enhancing information management capabilities.
• Provide assistance to maintenance sectors and the safety and environmental department in meeting legal requirements related to Occupational Health and Safety Regulatory Standards.
• Develop tutorials and training materials to aid maintenance employees in becoming proficient with the SAP/PM system, facilitating their understanding and promoting standardized usage.
• Establish standardized procedures for technicians and predictive management within the department to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• Identify knowledge gaps within the team and develop an upskilling plan to address them.

• Education:
  
  Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Electronics and Automation Engineering.
• Industry knowledge:
  Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance execution, reliability tools and third‑party management.
• Functional knowledge:
  Fundamental general knowledge of electrical/mechanical equipment applied to machines, equipment and industrial processes, SAP-PM.
• Key skills:
  Experience in SAP-PM, implementation and day‑to‑day management.
• Computer and project skills:
  Intermediate Office package proficiency, advanced SAP knowledge.
• Languages:
  
  English, Spanish desirable.
• Technical skills:
  Advanced knowledge of programming, maintenance planning and control, world‑class indicators (KPI's), root cause analysis tools, project management and cost management, RCM and FMEA.

• Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, teamwork, patience, negotiation abilities, effective communication, organizational skills, cooperation, collegiality, punctuality, reliability, good humor, proactivity, and commitment.
• Demonstrated ownership, dedication, a drive for personal growth, and aspirations to assume a leadership role within the company.

• Job type:
  Full‑time
• Experience level: 5 years
• Schedule:
  
  Monday to Friday, on call
• Work setting:
  In‑person
• Ability to commute:
  North Kansas City, MO 64116 (Preferred)
• Ability to relocate:
  North Kansas City, MO 64116—relocate before starting work (Required)
• Pay range: $95,000.55 - $ per year

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off