Maintenance Manager

NEW PLANT – CAYCE, SC. Techo-Bloc is expanding into South Carolina with our newest state-of-the-art facility. We’re looking for founding leaders who want to shape a plant from day one: its people, its standards and its culture.

Techo-Bloc is a successful,entrepreneurial, growth-oriented, and fast-paced company. Techo-Bloc inspires artscapes across North America with innovative design and an exceptional dedication to quality. We lead the hardscape industry in style with substance making R&D both a core competency and a passionate pursuit. To that end, we build teams in our production facilities of the highest caliber and equip them with the latest technology to deliver superior products.

We ensure the landscape and masonry products we design, and produce are functional, durable, and astonishingly beautiful.

Using the 5S and Kanbanphilosophies, we are dedicated to a manufacturing collaboration that supports running a “whole-minded” production system, and an excellent way to promote improvement.
With 9 manufacturing facilities (soon to be 10), 30 international patents and over 850 employees, we operate in an exciting and dynamic environment. Through exceptional product quality, innovation and a thorough understanding of our clients’ businesses, we have developed a true passion for helping our partners succeed. As we continue to expand, our team members are offered opportunities to professionally develop, learn new abilities and pursue projects that excite them.

If you want to work for a company that listens and is dedicated to your progress this may be your next career move!

Location:Cayce, South Carolina
Travel: Spend M-F training in Pen Argyl. PA (possibly 3-6 months)

In the First Year:

This is a rare chance to build a maintenance program from the ground up — in a brand-new plant, on state-of-the-art equipment, with no legacy problems to inherit. In your first year, you will:

• Be on the floor for equipment installation and commissioning, learning every line inside and out alongside the OEM teams who built it.
• Design the preventive and predictive maintenance program from day one, setting the PM schedules, standards and critical-spares strategy that will keep this plant running for years to come.
• Hire, train and shape your maintenance team, building a culture of ownership and technical excellence from the very first shift.
• Set up the parts room, inventory controls and ERP maintenance workflows the right way the first time — your way.
• Partner with the Plant Manager and Production to ramp the plant from startup to full production, solving problems in real time.
• Lay the groundwork for the plant’s first annual equipment rebuild, planning it with everything you’ve learned about the equipment all year.

Position:

Techo-Bloc is seeking its next passionate Maintenance Manager to oversee the maintenance department at our Cayce facility.

As a seasoned maintenance professional, you will build programs for preventive, proactive, and predictive maintenance. Your contribution maximizes the longevity of the machinery and equipment's excellent performance - a vital piece to our production puzzle!

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Direct a team of maintenance technicians, parts department and maintenance planning
• Manage the maintenance department budget and procurement of critical spares
• Lead root cause analysis efforts to solve complex mechanical & electrical failures
• Manage capital improvement projects from inception through final completion
• Coordinate activities and follow up across multiple shifts to ensure continuity and efficiency
• Directly lead sourcing, procuring, and managing spare parts, tools, and services to ensure operational continuity and minimize downtime.
• Direct and supervise staff members that will…