Manager Maintenance-US

With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2 billion in revenues in fiscal 2022. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

 

Maintenance Manager

  

The successful candidate will manage the maintenance department, execute infrastructure projects and update the processes around team performance.

Project leadership over facility and equipment aligned with companies standards and plans.

The department has 7 reporting staff, >100 machines and vast infrastructure.

Maintenance Managers is to ensure optimal machine uptime, cost control to budget direct responsibility over staff and maintenance business processes.

 

Responsibilities

•  Management of Maintenance staff performance along with costs and schedules.
• Manage department budget.
• Develop strategies to achieve high efficiency of bottleneck processes (high service standards)
• Provide, timely, effective maintenance services to operations.
• Create, plan, maintain, execute and record preventative maintenance to instructions.
• Determines how resources are allocated within the area of accountability.
• Provide timely cost-effective maintenance services for machinery, equipment, and facilities with an adequately trained and equipped maintenance workforce
• Manages staff of millwrights, toolmakers and electrician in union environment.
• Ensure response to production breakdowns in a timely manner.
• Analyze energy costs and implement ways to improve the efficiency of plant equipment.
• Maintain infrastructure of facility, equipment and grounds

• Accurately post breakdowns and take action to remedy.
• Ensure that Health and Safety awareness and performance to company standards.
• Carry out risk assessments of existing and new operations and offer solutions to current problems.
• Determine and manage critical spare parts for high efficiency

• Facilitate improvement strategies to increase OEE performance.
• Support Environmental Health and Safety strategy with time and talent.

 

 

 

Job Requirements

• BS or BA degree in Engineering or business
• Experience repairing, servicing, and maintaining equipment in a similar environment.
• 5years previous experience managing a maintenance department and maintenance technicians.
• Experience using precision measuring instruments and CNC machinery.
• Ability to problem solve on a variety of equipment.
• Must be Heath, Safety & Environmentally focused, and promote safety in the workplace.
• Excellent command of the English language.

 

 Kennametal Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. As such, it is the policy of Kennametal Inc. to afford equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, or other protected status, group, or characteristic under federal, state, and/or local law or regulation. It is Kennametal Inc.'s policy to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.