Maintenance Manager

RESPECT to people, COURAGE to be pioneers and raise the bar, and always demonstrating INTEGRITY and authenticity. Do these core values align with yours? If so, Lhoist North America may be the place for you! We are a company that believes our people make it happen and rewards talent by offering opportunities to further develop your knowledge and interests. Within our organization, we offer safety first environments, collaboration across teams, diverse and inclusive workspaces all while challenging each other to grow.

Application Deadline for this role will be 9/19/2024.

RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPECTATIONS:

Leadership for safety and environmental for Maintenance Department:

• Ensure a safe workplace and regulatory compliance with Federal (MSHA), State, local, and Company policies.

• Drive team member’s environmental performance and ensure all permit/regulatory requirements are met.

• Support Environmental Health and Safety initiatives and awareness programs.

• Be a leader and promoter of a safety culture.

• Ensure employees have a clear understanding of expected safety performance and the required training.

• Ensure proper training programs are implemented for new maintenance employees.

• Actively participate in audits for regulatory, safety and environmental compliance at the site.

Direct maintenance, electrical, and storeroom to meet short and long-range objectives with optimum efficiency:

• Plan maintenance and capital budgets through the identification of plant opportunities while using corporate guidelines and tools.

• Develop and implement improved maintenance processes and productivity improvements aimed at optimizing the overall productivity of the plant and driving cost reductions through use of RAT and RCFA (reliability assessment teams & root cause failure analysis).

• Ensure regulatory compliance is maintained and documented for all necessary record keeping - including but not limited to: MSHA, ISO, safety and environmental.

• Responsible for spare parts inventory management to ensure storeroom allocates all inventory items to the proper work order or cost center. Supports storeroom management with cycle counts and responsibility for managing count discrepancies.

• Support engineering and automation efforts in the planning, design, procurement, installation, start up, and training for capital investments.

• Directs and prioritizes needed repairs.

• Regularly advises production/plant management of needed equipment status and repair.

• Leads the identification of and resolution of equipment failures.

• Allocates resources appropriately in the face of competing demands.

• Communicate effectively with all maintenance employees.

• Clearly establish and communicate the vision for the department.

• Creates a culture of trust and open communication.

Leadership and development of Employees:

• Be a positive leader - driving continuous improvement, communication, cross functional training as well as total productive maintenance with site production personnel.

• Administer, develop, and deliver site relevant maintenance topics for maintenance staff and production personnel.  Leverage vendor relationships to assist with training on relevant to maintenance team as well as total productive maintenance topics with site production team,

• Be the driving force to change site culture from reactive maintenance to preventative / predictive maintenance striving for improved administration, reliability and overall asset management.

• Establish Key Performance Indicators to measure implementation and progress of goals.

• Provide hands-on structure, direction, and feedback to the maintenance team

• Readily share information and develop the maintenance team by delegating to their strengths

• Set clear guidelines and expectations for the maintenance team

• Provide clear and honest feedback to direct reports and those managed through projects

• Provide guidance and mentoring to see staff develop to meet full potential.

Manage Amargosa capital projects:

• Plan and assist in capital expansions, machine and equipment replacement, and changes in technology and general process improvements.

• Lead plant’s capital budget process.

• Together with the plant manager, establish the plant’s five-year plan for capital projects.

• Review capital projects for the proper application of equipment and process technology.