Maintenance Manager

Position Summary

Reporting directly to the Plant manager, the Maintenance manager is responsible for planning and directing all maintenance activities to ensure that work is conducted in a safe, secure, efficient and cost effective manner. This key role leads a team of maintenance technicians in assuring maximum machine uptime and productivity. Also, in collaboration with the plant engineer and other engineering corporate technical resources this person provides leadership and technical guidance to technicians, assuring their engagement and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct the maintenance department of the facility to achieve business objectives;
• Promote and enhance a positive and safe working environment through teamwork and high level of employee involvement;
• Analyze downtime, identify causes and recommend action plan for improvement;
• Collaborate and lead locally predictive and preventative maintenance plan;
• Prepare departmental budget and ensures close follow up;
• Review budgets for current and upcoming projects and schedule forecasts to ensure maintenance projects are completed on-time and on-budget;
• Identify and prioritize major maintenance issues with production and initiate and develop action plans to resolve issues in order to achieve maximum productivity;
• Oversee maintenance activities and programs implementation to ensure compliance with all health and safety standards;
• Support the maintenance team on a daily basis and act as technical resource;
• Implement and manage routine systems for technical problem solving and accountability;
• Collaborate and communicate with other plant management team members on various technical and key performance issues;
• Pursue improvement opportunities and provide technical support for capital improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial or a related Engineering field or equivalent work experience;
• Have 8 + years of relevant experience combining technical and management experience, preferably in a food manufacturing / fast pace environment;
• Knowledge of GFSI / BRC, SQF, GMP and other food safety standard including HACCP or similar food industry regulations is preferable;
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability for decision making under pressure;
• Strong oral and written communication skills, excellent judgment, strong sense of ethics & integrity, result oriented;
• Excellent people skills, maintain a positive attitude and ability to motivate people, specifically mentoring and coaching individuals;
• Ability to adapt operational changes;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, challenging, and consistently changing environment;
• Efficient at handling multiple priorities;
• Be familiar with SAP or other ERP system;
• Strong knowledge of mechanics, pneumatics, hydraulics, instrumentation and control;
• Flexible with work hours and be able to work weekends when needed;

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