Plant Maintenance Manager

The Plant Maintenance Manager will lead a team of maintenance leaders, engineers, and union hourly employees. They are responsible for building a culture with an unconditional stance on safety. The position is accountable for delivering stable and reliable plant operations with a focus on safety, people development, quality, productivity, and cost.

Plant Maintenance Manager Responsibilities:

• Ensuring a safe, clean environmentally compliant work environment and building a culture where safety is a first priority.
• Developing risk assessments and safe plans of action for critical tasks.
• Leading and supporting safety initiatives and processes to drive to zero incidents.
• Developing and executing plant maintenance strategy.
• Safety for an Injury Free Work Environment
• Determining Performance Objectives for the Plant & Maintenance Department
• Ensure maintenance strategy aligns with business strategy and operations plans
• Improvement plans to drive plant operating performance and equipment reliability
• Maintenance team talent development and training
• Maintain maintenance budget including labor, repairs, replacements, facilities maintenance
• Support sustainability goals and environmental compliance / stewardship
• Liaison with risk management services
• Directing Maintenance Operations
• Continuously improve safety and housekeeping
• Lead Maintenance Department to best-in-class safety and machine performance
• Ensure effective deployment of employee/labor relations practices
• Ensure governmental/regulatory compliance (electrical inspections, backflow inspections, railroad compliance, water systems, air compliance, vehicle inspections)
• Control/Reduce Operating Cost
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis on chronic maintenance issues or repairs
• Execute effective PM and work order programs using predictive and preventive technologies
• Develop and execute TPM & RWP plans
• Lead the Planned Maintenance (PM) Pillar for the site
• Effectively collaborate and build strong relationships with production and technical teams

Plant Maintenance Manager Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Engineering, Science, Operations or Business
• 10+ years of industrial manufacturing/maintenance leadership
• Able to engage and care for people starting with Safety
• Experience leading Reliability Work Process and Total Productive Maintenance preferred
• Excellent at listening to team, following up on commitments, and building strong teams
• Strong process, engineering and technical abilities, including an ability to serve as an onsite technical subject matter expert on parts, services, and research/design options.
• Experience leading in a union environment, including contract negotiations
• Must have previous responsibility for facilities maintenance (HVAC, high-voltage power systems, water treatment, etc.)
• Business and financial acumen
• Capital project planning and execution