Maintenance Manager

Location: Springfield

** Job Purpose
** To use your unique talents, experience, skills, education and enthusiasm to complete the Operations team and to recognize that your contribution is essential to the vision of Ring Container Technologies.

Key Responsibilities and Duties Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all equipment to meet or exceed company established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) expectations and customer quality expectations.
* Monitor equipment OEE for inefficiencies and recommend and/or make necessary improvements.
* Develop improvements for safer and more efficient operations.
* Ensure all machines guards are in place and functional.
* Ensure all unsafe conditions are corrected immediately.
* Ensure Lock out / Tag out policy is followed.
* Troubleshoot all major problems.

Responsible for continuing/implementing the Ring Family Culture in the facility.
* Employees are the first priority, production is secondary.
* Welcome employees to the plant every day inquiring about their personal lives and showing that Ring cares about our employees.
* Manage by walking around during the shift initiating conversations with questions regarding the well-being of the employee.
* Catch someone doing something well and praise.  Recognize their efforts.
* Understand that all employees are people and all of us have challenges.  Search for the reason behind the issue, actively listen and resolve to the benefit of all.

Responsible for leading and supporting employee engagement initiatives.
* Conduct focused walks semi-weekly through the plant to engage with the employees.
* Utilizing active listening skills, ask probing questions that encourage employee input on issues or opportunities related to safety, quality, performance, goals, scheduling, teamwork, etc.,
* Note opportunities for improvement and potential solutions based on employee input.
* Develop strategies that all for employee led teams to implement or ‘try’
* Provide ongoing feedback to employee led teams and support efforts that lead to improved results, even during times of initial failure.
* Celebrate wins and recognize employees participating on successful teams.

Educate plant personnel on safe and proper operation of machinery, ensuring all employees receive proper and timely training.
* Develop problem solving and troubleshooting skills in maintenance personnel.

Maintain accurate and sufficient parts inventory while meeting the established budget.
* Order and maintain min/max inventory levels of repair and/or replacement parts.

Schedule and coordinate appropriate downtime to effectively perform preventative maintenance on all equipment.
* Ensure equipment is clean and in ‘showroom condition’.
* Pro-active in addressing machine inefficiencies during preventative maintenance.

Maintain Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) system.
* Maintain equipment files, vendor records, quotes, manuals, repair records, etc.
* Record maintenance and repair costs; control costs through use of appropriate repair and/or purchasing methods.

Responsible for coordinating with the Quality Leader to ensure equipment is manufacturing products which meet quality specifications and food safety requirements.
* Ensure all non-conforming equipment which impacts safety, food safety, or product quality is identified and removed from service until repaired or replaced.
* Ensure that a sufficient maintenance budget is allocated to maintain a high standard of quality and food safety of the facility structure and all equipment.

Schedule and coordinate all Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) events with maintenance and production personnel.
* Provide necessary training to all employees.
* Establish and maintain TPM standards on all equipment.
* Schedule events to ensure equipment meets TPM standards.

Maintain employee documentation and schedule labor to meet budget requirements.
* Maintain performance evaluations, attendance records and review time cards.
* Direct the work of employees to correct improper work habits and/or behavior; reward good job performance and take corrective action as required.

Communicate problems, progress reports and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance and production personnel.

May perform the duties of Production Supervisor as needed or required.

Responsible for ensuring maintenance employees follow food safety and food defense programs.
* Support the development and implementation of food safety and food defense programs, in compliance with Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) or British Retail Consortium (BRC) standards.
* Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs.
* Ensure work is performed in a manner which prevents foreign material contamination, including reconciliation of all tools and parts and proper securement of hardware.
* Communicate quality, food safety, and food defense issues to appropriate personnel.

Maintain maintenance shop, parts room, and equipment cleanliness by assigning…