Plant Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Job Highlights

The position is responsible for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of Engineering and Maintenance departments to drive internal and external customers’ satisfaction.  Drive the execution of the Preventative maintenance and CAPEX Projects schedules, insuring the effective use of maintenance employees and outside contractors. Ensures the compliance of the environmental, health & safety standards and processes in the East Hanover plant. Leads continuous improvement objectives in Engineering and Maintenance department by collaborating with production and quality departments. 

This position is accountable for achieving targets in the areas of Safety, Quality, Production and Budgets (Costs).  The site is a Process Safety Management regulated (PSM) site.  The site is also covered under a variety of federal and state regulations including but not limited to spill prevention regulations, process waste water, stormwater, and sanitary permit requirements, air permit compliance, hazardous waste management (RCRA) and DOT requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for all Engineering and Maintenance activities at the East Hanover site, which is a Process Safety Management (PSM) regulated site.
• Manage direct reports consisting of Maintenance Supervisor, Project Engineer and PCT Engineer, and indirect reports consisting of Maintenance Planner, two IE technicians and two mechanics.
• Accountable for equipment availability/uptime performance, run rate, and achieving OEE performance targets from an equipment performance perspective.
• Managing the capital budgets of East Hanover plant, schedule spending, ensure budget goals are met, remain flexible in a changing capital environment.
• Responsible and accountable for time, cost and scope of capital projects and their execution and developing the site’s capital plan to meet operational needs and strategic vision.
• Providing functional leadership to support the manufacturing infrastructure.
• Communicate equipment status, initiatives, and risks to other departments to meet the goals of the organization.
• Develop maintenance metrics and analyse key maintenance performance indicators as a means to create and implement large scale corrective actions.

Other Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and implement a Plant Maintenance Program (including preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, plant shut-downs, maintenance of plant infrastructure, process safety and operational management) for mechanical, electrical and instrumentation.  
• Develop and execute a Reliability Improvement Program for the site with the aim to optimize maintenance cost and reach Best in Class performance of the Assets. The program should include mechanical integrity assurance and life cycle equipment planning.
• Ensure engineering and maintenance collaboration with the rest of the organization to increase equipment utilization and drive continuous improvement
• Maintain optimal engineering/maintenance staff levels based on current and future plants demands (within the allowable budget for salary personnel). Recruit staff as permitted, provide disciplinary actions when appropriate.
• Provide performance feedback to team and coach others on how to promote positive employee relations through effective conflict management and issue resolution.
• Provide training opportunities for team and an environment for personal growth.
• Aid in the preparation of company policy as required. Implement policies/standards for the engineering department. Ensure engineers and maintenance follow applicable policy/regulations.
• Monitor the progress of project in alignment with the Plant Manager, manage priorities for team as business demands/plant demands change.

Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in leading an Engineering and Maintenance Team, 5 years of chemical and/or automated packaging processes, and 5 years implentation of Maintenance Best Practices and Reliability Improvement Programs
• Requires strong safety leadership and competence in areas of Process Safety Management (PSM) including but not limited to Process Hazard Analysis (PHA's), Hazard Studies, and Management of Change (MoC).
• Continuous improvement skills leading LEAN, Six Sigma, root cause analysis initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
• As a member of the site leadership team, this position requires strong leadership abilities with results orientation and ability to drive change.
• Knowledge of SAP Asset Management Module
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering