What you’ll do:

• Direct leadership of up to 3 maintenance shifts as well as staffing to support production ramp
• Responsible for day to day manpower and resource planning to support production, in house repair, team time off, and OT or weekend production
• Define daily standard work for team as well as providing guidance for prioritization
• Development of standard maintenance processes and procedures
• Set up spare parts management program, preventative maintenance as well as work order processes 
• Ensure all spare parts are ordered in time according to needs and lead time, maintain tracking and replenishment system 
• Ownership of setting up maintenance annual budgets (which includes labor, spare parts, consumables, and overtime)
• Work closely with all production functions to ensure critical maintenance issues and projects are completed in a timely manner
• Act with urgency and provide focused guidance to team during line down and machine quality events
• Implement processes to mitigate reactionary issues as well as move maintenance towards proactive or predictive maintenance model
• Provide and manage team training (LOTO, 5-S, PPE, etc.), tools, and equipment to ensure that the maintenance team operates safely at all times, and always lead by example
• Develop, modify, and document repairs/troubleshooting processes and manage and train the team to utilize those processes.
• Collaborates with a wide variety of engineering disciplines across process engineering, controls engineering and automation engineering for maintaining production standards, implementation, and project demand.
• Highly motivated to look at wider organizational cost initiatives to optimize headcount, spares and minimize outsources maintenance and equipment labor.
• Manage large workload with positive attitude and proactively help co-workers
• Leads in the interviewing, hiring, training, and decision making process for all new hires in the Maintenance Department
• Participate in early phase equipment/production line specification, design, qualification, installation and site acceptance testing as needed

Skills to be successful:

• 5+ years of extensive experience with troubleshooting and correcting industrial equipment maintenance - breakdowns and failures
• Experience in team building, coaching and succession planning for technical personnel
• Manufacturing maintenance experience at a journeyman level or supervisory level. 
• Lean manufacturing experience, skills and systems development 
• Project management experience
• Proficient in Google suite of programs
• Proficient in development of a CMMS provide examples
• The candidate needs to have demonstrable skills in the following areas:
• Equipment Operation Availability 
• OEE improvement
• System development to track current shop conditions
• Identification of key areas of improvement
• Breakdown management
• Understanding of short-term vs long term actions
• Systems used to prevent repeat occurrences
• PM / TPM development and implementation
• Reference to past improvement initiatives / % improvements
• Equipment spare parts management
• Critical vs noncritical parts determination
• Audit methods to ensure no risk condition
• Training & development
• Assessment of current skills sets
• Training action plans

You might also have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or Technical.
• 3+ years of team leadership
• Project management experience
• PLC Control logic experience and understanding
• Robotics programming or handling