Maintenance Manager

Join the team at Ostara to help build a sustainable future.

Position: Maintenance Manager

Location: Saint Louis, MO

Job :171

# of Openings:1

Ostara is passionate about changing the way the Ag and T&O industry thinks about phosphate management. Our continuing mission is, and will remain, “Feeding the World While Protecting It.”

We believe that passionate people can make a real difference and we are building a culture around innovation, sustainability, efficiency, nimbleness, honesty, compliance, and a sense of urgency to make a positive difference and create real value. Ostara’s CG P2X fertilizers are the first granular phosphate fertilizers to release nutrients in response to plant demand. Using Crop Driven Release™, CG P2X is proven to increase yields, enhance soil health and significantly reduce phosphate tie‑up and runoff, thereby improving food security while protecting local waterways from nutrient pollution.

The Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance team for Ostara’s heavy industrial fertilizer manufacturing facility. This position will manage the maintenance department, build, and maintain a PM Program, and develop and implement a CMMS (computerized maintenance management system). This Maintenance Manager will be a part of the site leadership team and play a role in the Site Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement program.

• Collaborates with the Ostara capital projects team to deploy new equipment and processes
• Guides smaller capital projects from construction to commissioning, including supervision of contractors, writing work permits, creating written procedures, operator, and maintenance training, labeling and completion of contractor punch lists
• Provides day‑to‑day support for operations to enhance the reliability, performance, changeover, and maintenance of production equipment
• Optimizes maintenance strategies (preventative and corrective) for production equipment
• Works in conjunction with quality, manufacturing, and functional area managers/ supervisors to align support system such as computerized maintenance management system (“CMMS”), spare parts inventory, planning, and scheduling
• Acts as technical lead for the equipment and associated utilities to support projects and enhance operator and maintenance technician capabilities
• Works with the quality, operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to develop and support the site equipment reliability program.
• Leads technical troubleshooting efforts to determine the root cause of equipment failures and under performance. Implement timely, effective corrective actions
• Develops, implements, and utilizes a CMMS as the central reliability measurement resource by ensuring accurate data collection/analysis, and by establishing and monitoring reliable key performance indicators.
• Creates detailed maintenance procedures, PM tasks, and work instructions to ensure work is properly completed by maintenance technicians with minimal ambiguity

• Hires and trains, coaches, and mentors Ostara’s maintenance staff
• Schedules, organizes, and assigns projects to members of the maintenance teams
  
  Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive
• Handles discipline and termination of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels, within and outside the company
• Ability to safely move in and through work areas, including climbing stairs, maintaining good balance, being mentally alert, having good visual acuity and safety working at heights
• Ability to safety work in and around heavy industrial environment, including moving objects, concentrated chemicals, and transport vehicles

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, chemical or mechanical preferred
• At least 8 years of leading the maintenance department in a continuous chemical manufacturing environment, fertilizer manufacturing preferred