Maintenance Department Manager

SUMMARY 

The Maintenance Department Manager is responsible to ensure all mechanical and electrical plant equipment is maintained and is in good operating condition, to minimize downtime, optimize production, and facilitate smooth on-schedule maintenance outage and repair.  Drives production improvements in safety, quality, delivery and cost.

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES 

Ability to create and drive change and effectively communicate throughout the organization.  Ability to work well independently and on a team.  Maintain positive attitude at work and always maintain leadership qualities.  Ability to demonstrate set-up and operational experience of on-line and off-line auxiliary equipment.  Strong aptitude to equipment technology troubleshooting and repair.  Hands-on ability and willingness to troubleshoot and perform mechanic’s work.  Experience with maintenance management software including inventory, work-order system, and MRO.  Must be self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team environment.  Works with integrity and respect displaying a high degree of tact and diplomacy.  Must be familiar with various measuring devices and analyzing information. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.  Responsible for adequate staffing and training of plant maintenance technicians. Supports a corporate culture that focuses on facts, tangible results, and behaviors.  Maintains plant maintenance staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.  Supervise and establish priorities and schedule personnel for maintenance of all plant equipment, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic.  Accomplishes staff results by communicating job goals and expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE 

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.  

LANGUAGE SKILLS 

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Bi-lingual (Spanish and English).

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE 

Understand processes involved with equipment design, parts fabrication, custom equipment and/or die assembly, and equipment layout.  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.  Understand and interpret technical drawings.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.  The noise level in the work environment can be loud.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Responsible for creating and implementing preventative maintenance programs, meeting maintenance cost budgets, meeting equipment up-time goals, pre-qualifying contractors and administrative contracts for equipment installation and maintenance.  Directly responsible for plant inventory spare-parts management, and replenishment. Interact with the operations and engineering teams to support major projects, and plant engineering modifications or expansions.  Respond to breakdowns by determining the root cause of the problem and effective immediate repair.  Responsible for maintenance standard operating procedures and revision control on all plant equipment. Work with vendors to ensure proper inventory and quality for all equipment.  Ensure efficient utilization of plant personnel and equipment to meet equipment up-time OEE goals, and downtime goals for plant.  Perform installation, start-up and commissioning of all plant equipment when necessary.  Behave continuously and consistently with desired CWS values, and characteristics.  Keeps abreast of emerging technology and industry practices.  Maintains machine shop capable of making mechanical, plumbing, and electrical repairs to manufacturing and plant equipment.