Maintenance Manager, Marathon Equipment

Job Description:

Job Title: Maintenance Manager

Operating Company: Environmental Solutions Group –Marathon Eqipment

Location:  Vernon, AL

Reports To:  Senior Director, Advanced Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance & Continuous Improvement

Department:  Manufacturing and Operations

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for day-to-day activities of directing, controlling, and coordinating all phases of the Maintenance Department in such a manner as to promote efficiency and cost control while reducing downtime in accordance with applicable Company and regulatory guidelines.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS INCLUDE:

• Develop, plan, lead, and update cost effective Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM) and repair programs to ensure compliance to long and short-range goals.
• Develop and monitor programs to analyze and resolve conflicts or discrepancies with contractors and/or vendors.
• Direct and document maintenance and repair activities; coordinating assignments with other departments and contractor activities.
• Plan, direct, and document overhaul and other major maintenance and repair activities to achieve maximum unit availability within budgeted costs.
• Prepare and recommend specifications and evaluating bids for contractor activities and/or equipment purchases.
• Prepare plant maintenance, construction, and/or responsibility budgets: evaluating cost and payback of proposed budget items.
• Responsible for training and development of maintenance personnel.
• Ensure that maintenance and repair activities are conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements, cost, controls, company practices and procedures on all shifts.
• Lead and/or facilitate root cause analysis of equipment failures, equipment running off spec, and equipment requiring repeated repairs.
• Actively support Safety Risk RPN reduction initiative.
• Lead and/or facilitate TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Kaizen Events.
• Model 5S behaviors in Maintenance and drive improvements in Safety Culture in Maintenance Department.
• Coordinate and maintain the MSDS system in compliance with governmental regulations.
• Take an active role in supporting quality initiatives such as QS9000 and ISO14001. Main point of contact for all environmental state and local reporting requirements.
• Be an active participant in the Safety Excellence Committee to ensure all safety standards are followed and continuously improving.
• Maintains Facilities in compliance with FM Global and manage/maintain CMMS.
• Obtains and documents quotes/bids for various new and old machine repairs and PM's. Evaluates proposals for specification compliance and makes recommendation of award.
• Provide overall leadership for the Maintenance Department on all shifts. Fill in during the absence of the Facilities and Maintenance Director.
• On call to respond to any problems as needed when the manufacturing equipment goes down. Should be able to assign the required night shift and weekend.
• Need to have a high mind set of reducing MTTR and MTBF and completion of any projects on time as planned without slipping the dates.
• Plan the annual Plant July shutdown. Perform budget reviews such as spare parts spending/approval, OT, usage/spending, and other Department spending.
• Always need to be a good communicator with a leadership team to keep them informed.
• Need to be a good team player across cross functional teams.
• Need to be able to work on weekends if the maintenance team needs any help and/or if there are any special projects scheduled on weekends.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or required by Facilities and Maintenance Director.
• Work with Facilities and Maintenance Director to upgrade the equipment to the latest technology.
• Develop long and short-range training plans for Supervisors, Mechanics, and technicians.
• Reviews and/or inspects work for quality, accuracy, and completeness.
• Actively participates in Production readiness buy-off process of any new equipment launch, process changes, equipment relocation etc.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred or equivalent experience.
• 10 years’ experience including supervisory experience.  Previous Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment preferred. 
• Complete working knowledge of plant maintenance and systems. 
• Demonstrated management ability to plan, schedule, direct and review work of more than one functional area; evaluate employee performance; deal effectively with employees, analyze operational methods and develop improved procedures as nee