Mechanical Maintenance Manager

Job ID: 518081

Ash Grove family of companies, including Ash Grove Cement Company, Ash Grove South Texas, LLC, Sapphire Americas LLC, Oldcastle Cement Holdings, Houston Cement Company, and Suwanee American Cement Company, is one of North America’s leading cement manufacturers, with a legacy of innovation and excellence dating back to 1882. The company operates 12 world-class cement plants and a vast network of 41 terminals across the United States and Canada. Renowned for its forward-thinking approach, Ash Grove combines technical expertise, robust safety standards, and empowered talent to deliver high performance and better serve our customers. At Ash Grove, we stand together to reinvent the way our world is built.

To learn more about us go to www.ashgrove.com 

 

At Ash Grove Cement, people are our first priority. We offer a complete benefits package to include: 

 

• Health Insurance 
• Dental Insurance 
• Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Disability Pay
• Life Insurance
• Growth Opportunities and more!

 

Summary:

 

The Mechanical Maintenance Manager supervises and coordinates the Mechanical, Reliability, and Electrical sections. This position ensures assurance of all relevant parts availability, outside services availability, job scheduling and setup, removal and/or installation, and maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment and associated components. The position directs the mechanical section of the maintenance department. The position is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the mechanical functions, including inputs to the planning function, inputs to the store MRO function, critical parts designation, and training of mechanical supervision and technicians to increase planned and preventative work while decreasing reactive mechanical maintenance work. The expected end result is that overall equipment availability related to all manner of mechanical performance is enhanced. The

MMR causes the development of preventative maintenance work and evaluates results, including equipment reliability, to improve efficiency. The MMR will establish and maintain close collaboration with parts/services suppliers, outside third-party technical services, internal technical resources across the platform, and internal and external networks to identify best practices and benchmark results to drive goal setting and achieving. Close and intimate cooperation and collaboration with all other departments within Opco are required to implement cost-effective and innovative solutions to enhance operational reliability effectively.

 

 What you’ll be contributing:

 

• Promote and follow all plant safety guidelines.
• Ensures a safe work environment, physically and procedurally, is paramount, and no other situation pre-empts this core value aimed at protecting our teammates and our equipment.
• Ensures that the team follows safe work practices and complies with all safety rules and
• regulations.
• Establishes, modifies, schedules, and enhances written practices focused on developing a preventative/predictive/ selective maintenance system – based on SOPs, work orders/notifications, cost awareness, and scheduling inputs to the planning function.
• Develops annual Operating budgets for mechanical maintenance, regularly review actual vs.
• budget performance, analyze variances, and adjust to deliver high reliability in a safe manner within the platform's expected operating budget.
• Budgets development annually and including cost (parts, services, lube, internal labor) targeted runtime, scheduled maintenance downtime, training CX project development- will develop a 3 to 5-year CX plan, including long lead time critical parts/replacements for all plant mechanical systems
• Provides guidance to the maintenance personnel to carry out the predictive & preventative maintenance schedule.
• Provides tactical leadership based on company vision and values, with direct daily inv