Maintenance Manager

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

Job Description

This is a heavy-industrial maintenance leadership role supporting an export grain terminal. The primary function is to ensure optimum performance of the maintenance team, and that all maintenance processes are performed safely and efficiently.

Experience with bucket elevators, drag conveyors, belt conveyors, gearboxes, and other bulk handling systems is essential.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Develops cascading departmental goals in support of the site goals, along with individual goals for direct reports. Leads the maintenance staff and sets clear expectations, with reinforcement, for the department supervisors and superintendents.
• Mentor, coach, and empower team to improve. Encourage contribution from all team members. Lead change and improvement initiatives.
• Fosters open communication, transactional transparency, and operational discipline within the department and on its reliability processes.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement with the maintenance department and for daily maintenance activities. Works with the Plant Manager and the North America (NAM) Reliability team to eliminate barriers that prevents progress, innovation and improvement within the department.
• Provides monthly reports on the performance of the department.
• Understands reliability KPI's, reliability leading and lagging indicators. Lead the plant reliability program via the implementation of reliability best practices, including KPI's monitoring, PM and PdM, RCA, Bad Actor program, Planning and Scheduling, skills assessment and training.
• Maintains control of the overall Maintenance OPEX and CAPEX budgets.
• Responds to equipment issues or alarms and leads investigations as necessary
• Maintains maintenance records per LDC policy.
• Oversees the CMMS - work orders, parts inventory, etc.
• Ensures proper departmental staffing levels and ensures that workers have received the appropriate training for the performance of their particular job duties.
• Frequently interfaces with the maintenance staff and outside contractors as needed
• Develops and maintains a strong network of vendors/contractors that can assist in all aspects of the maintenance of facility.
• Manages planning and execution of complete or partial plant shutdowns effectively.
• Leads the safety effort within the maintenance department, and ensures that the maintenance team follows the established LDC safety processes pertaining to maintenance and repairs.

Additional Responsibilities Functions

• Develops and implements an electronic preventative maintenance program to keep elevator equipment functioning at peak efficiency
• Oversees ordering/acquiring of the necessary parts and materials to support equipment repairs and the coordination of repair efforts with the Elevator Superintendent
• Develops mechanical specifications and details necessary to seek and award the contracting of maintenance work to third parties;
  Supervises third party contractors performing maintenance repairs within the facility
• Responds to human resources - related

Company Conformance Statements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with co-workers, Company business associates and the general public.
• Work together in a cooperative spirit to serve the best interests of the Company.
• Operate in a fully responsible manner and comply with the law and Company policy.

Qualifications

Education/Professional Certifications/Licenses

Required qualification:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Preferred qualification:

• TWIC credential
• CMRP

Experience

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