Maintenance Manager

Potters Industries, LLC is the world's leading manufacturer of glass microspheres, renowned for diverse applications and innovative solutions. These versatile materials are used in areas such as traffic safety, plastics and polymers, paints and coatings, oil drilling, and electronics. With over a century of experience, Potters Industries emphasizes safe and responsible innovation, close customer collaboration, and global market expansion. Our worldwide manufacturing, sales, and distribution network ensures unmatched customer service and performance improvement.

Employees at Potters are committed to fostering strong partnerships and delivering value to our customers.

This is a full-time on-site role for a Maintenance Manager located in Muscatine, IA. The Maintenance Manager manages the daily requirements and scheduling for maintenance of plant equipment and facility needs. They coordinate these duties while leading a team of direct reports in their department, handling all areas of personnel for the team.

We are offering a base salary of $109,500 Plus a comprehensive benefit package

• Promptly responds to address internal customer maintenance concerns, and effectively manages a system to conduct planned, preventive and predictive maintenance to optimize plant reliability, cost, and asset life within established budget constraints
• Must understand the plant layout, equipment, process flows and impact of process parameters on process outcomes and have the ability to troubleshoot problems as they occur, especially with regard to maintenance systems
• Manages daily maintenance scheduling, including safety work orders, routine work orders, preventive maintenance work orders
• Responsible for the proper management of the storeroom inventory;
  Maintains work order system, part order system and master equipment list
• Maintains PLC alarm logs, plans all maintenance and contractor shutdown activities
• Actively supports site JHSC through participation, support and promotion;
  Ensures compliance with corporate/plant policies and procedures, communicates all issues, problems or concerns of the plant to unit manager and plant manager;
  Leads and manages a team in the Maintenance Department in all areas of personnel
• Encourages and implements a teamwork environment;
  Provides direction, resources and developmental support for all direct reports
• Encourages and supports the professional development of staff to achieve the next level of performance and advancement
• Manages plant capital projects and works with engineering to develop capital budget, plans, details, schedules and executes capital projects. Coordinates with project engineers as appropriate, interacts with Unit Manager on plant maintenance scheduling and activities, manages contractors working on site
• Manages all plant integration work;
  Performs or manages plant PLC programing and program changes, maintains all PLC, electrical and P& in AutoCAD, PDF and printed formal. Provides diagnostic and troubleshooting support for maintenance and operations manufacturer’s support and lifecycle

• Participates and ensures direct reports participate in plant-wide HSE, quality and productivity initiatives;
  Participates and ensures direct reports participate in HSE activities (i.e., Toolbox meetings, Plant audits, Incident investigations, Hazard IDs, etc.)
• Understands that safe work practices are a condition of employment and actively engages in leading indicators (including BBS, hazard IDs, safety work orders, near miss and first aid reporting, stop work, Is It Safe Tours, and JSA's) and assists in updating work procedures
• Routinely monitors environmental conditions in the plant and takes appropriate investigative & corrective actions and makes timely notifications as required. HSE
• Has responsibility to Lead, Communicate, Promote and Demonstrate Safety/Health (as #1 priority) and Environmental Stewardship/Compliance to Legal Requirements (including HSE Essentials
• Operating Permits and "Good Neighbor" policies), and proactively ensures systems and training are in place to operate effectively with order and good housekeeping;
  Ensures their team operates in compliance with all health, safety and environmental rules and regulations;
  Is a standing member of the Plant JHSC and ensures their team members participate on a rotating basis;
  Forklift certification preferred Additional duties assigned by Manager, as needed.
• Manages critical decisions and independent judgement for the department;
  Strong Work Ethics Ability to follow verbal and written instructions Manufacturing Plant environment

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High School/GED and/or Equivalent Experience.

5 + years experience of managing direct reports

Experience using CMMS systems to plan, manage and analyze maintenance activities.

Solid understanding of technical aspects of mechanical,…