Maintenance Manager

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Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the maintenance department while developing and driving a proactive maintenance strategy focused on equipment reliability, preventive and predictive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, and continuous improvement. This role will lead and create a reliability-centered maintenance culture that maximizes safety, equipment uptime, operational performance, and cost effectiveness.

• Champion safety through direct instruction and monitoring of employees.
• Ensure that employees perform their tasks in a safe manner which is in compliance with applicable policies and regulations.
• Manage the environmental program, including waste reduction initiatives and proper control and disposal of waste.
• Quickly address and fix safety issues that need maintenance to repair.
• Assist in the development and promotion of the safety program.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) activities for recurring equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Establish and monitor reliability KPIs including equipment uptime, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), MTTR (Mean Time to Repair), PM compliance, and maintenance backlog.
• Utilize CMMS systems to manage work orders, maintenance planning, asset history, and reliability improvement.
• Partner with operations to identify and eliminate chronic equipment losses.
• Maintain the plant's equipment and facilities, including the accurate diagnosis of problems and the timely and cost-effective repair.
• Inspect operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Review production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities.
• Identify continuous improvement initiatives for equipment reliability and employee development.

• Maintain a preventive maintenance compliance rate of 90% or greater while minimizing production disruptions.
• Develop maintenance shutdown, outage, and turnaround plans to ensure efficient execution of critical work.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with production teams to maximize equipment availability and overall plant throughput.
• Control operating budget to plan, including the investigation of cost-effective solutions to machine and facility repairs.
• Maximize productivity by effectively planning and executing work.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs by: improving processes, controlling labor and overtime, reducing waste and shop consumables.
• Schedules repair, maintenance, and installation to ensure continuous production operations.

• Drive asset management strategies that extend equipment life and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Optimize spare parts inventory through criticality assessments and reliability-based stocking strategies.
• Identify and implement predictive maintenance technologies including vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and condition monitoring where applicable.
• Reduce reactive maintenance work through disciplined planning, scheduling, and execution of preventive maintenance activities.
• Control operating budget to plan, including the investigation of cost-effective solutions to machine and facility repairs.
• Maximize productivity by effectively planning and executing work.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs by improving processes, controlling labor and overtime, and reducing waste and shop consumables.
• Recommend, plan, and implement any new capital improvements, including equipment and machinery.
• Responsible for eliminating all causes of failure and ensuring full useful life in coordination with daily maintenance completed by operating personnel.
• Creates and manages the maintenance budgets.

• Lead the site's reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) strategy.
• Establish a culture of proactive maintenance and equipment ownership.
• Drive Continuous Improvement initiatives focused on OEE, reliability, maintenance efficiency, and asset utilization.
• Utilize data analysis to identify equipment trends and prioritize reliability improvement projects.
• Support TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) initiatives and operator care programs.

• Develop employees through coaching, mentoring…