Maintenance Manager

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Position Summary:

We're looking for a Maintenance Manager for our North East, PA plant to oversee equipment maintenance, facility maintenance and reliability initiatives within the manufacturing plant in a continuous improvement-based and a safe work environment. This person would be responsible for training, supervising, and mentoring department personnel including Maintenance Supervisors, Buyers, Planners, Reliability Engineers, and technicians of various levels. The Maintenance Manager is to assure full, consistent compliance with the Company's Policies about Customer Satisfaction, the Principles of SQF (Safe Quality Foods) and Regulatory Requirements. All associates are responsible to report food safety and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate on the design, implementation and maintenance of the plant's Lockout Tagout program
• Owns and drives accountability for OEE and other plant metrics
• Uses metrics/data to evaluate and improve maintenance technical processes and plant leadership procedures
• Ensures and monitors maintenance efficiency
• Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet performance standards
• Uses standard work processes to ensure repeatable performance
• Monitors maintenance and leadership goals and levels to make sure they are consistent with performance standards
• Collaborates with other managers and supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments
• Oversees the review of invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments
• Oversees the inspection of physical conditions of the facility, warehouses, equipment, maintenance, repairs, or replacements
• Supports the creation and the execution of the Annual Capital Plan
• Ownership for site parts inventories, parts management and technical relationships with vendors.
• Key leader in current and future energy-reduction efforts and sustainability initiatives.
• Supports and executes formal processes for Project execution and integration into daily operations
• Lead, train and partners with Corporate and other sites in the use of TPM-based CI improvement tools including a wide range of Early Management tools, Autonomous maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Integrates safety, quality, and environmental policies into all relevant maintenance systems and daily work execution.
• Support all environmental and regulatory program and goals.
• Supports through long and short-term volume and mix adjusted plant cost commitments
• Monitors and accomplishes all Maintenance budgetary goals and savings projects/activities including Labor, Parts and Outside Repairs
• Develops, improves and monitors appropriate TPM and RCM based metrics
• Develops, improves and ensures the use of a formal Maintenance Planning Process centered on Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Builds a high-performance maintenance team by selecting, developing, coaching, managing and holding team members accountable
• Performs additional related duties as assigned

Who You Are:

• Passionate about safety and quality.
• Experience managing and implementing preventative and predictive maintenance programs
• Experience developing and driving performance through the use of appropriate KPIs (MTBF, schedule compliance, PM completion)
• Experience with MRO best practices (KPIs, cost savings, criticality assessments, vendor management, etc.)
• Demonstrate