Maintenance Manager

Job Requirements

Why work for us?

Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. 

With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we’re always looking for top talent ready to bring their best.  Come grow with us! 

Job Summary:

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for maintaining reliability of all plant equipment and the management of the facility in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.  This position will lead safety, manufacturing excellence, and preventive maintenance through their team of Maintenance Technicians and support staff and will collaborate with team members at the site to prevent breakdowns and improve uptime.  

Job Responsibilities:

Job responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead a team of Maintenance Technicians

• Meeting with and certifying of vendors and contractors; work with the site HSE Manager to ensure required safety training is completed and on file; ensure method statements are received from contractors regarding safety strategies for tasks/projects.

• Management of the safe completion of work in line with Alkegen’s permit to work system.

• Responsible for ensuring all work is completed to all federal, state and local codes in all areas such as electrical, plumbing, building and safety.  *Includes the personal review of completed work to ensure all is completed to code.

• Support and contribute to Alkegen safety initiatives and world class manufacturing objectives

• Responsible for ensuring the preventative maintenance of all equipment is scheduled and completed on time, including all associated department and ISO documentation.  *Includes reviewing end of shift reports and completed work orders.

• Responsible for all scheduling of maintenance staff to support productions needs

• Management of immediate labor relations for all maintenance staff.  

• Works with HR on new hires, interviews, major on-going issues and conducting performance reviews.

• Responsible for directing, coordinating and training the Maintenance staff.  *Includes working with HR to ensure up to date and timely training is completed, and organizing external training to improve skillset and close gaps within the Maintenance team

• Oversee, develop/design and direct major construction plant projects, renovations and installation of new equipment, including bidding and coordinating with outside contractors as needed.  Acts as project manager for these projects.

• Communicate with production supervision and Maintenance personnel to ensure that all operations are running efficiently daily, both formally and informally.

• Complete and communicate all required reports as requested or required to support the site operation

• Collaborate with peers (engineers and managers) to provides strong technical guidance and leadership to the site teams

• Lead two major shutdowns each year by scheduling the work, coordinating contractors, and coordinating internal maintenance resources with a focus on safety and efficiency.  

• Responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of all areas of the facility

• Implement systems to efficiently manage a multi-million-dollar maintenance budget that includes the coordination of contractors, internal resources, and spare parts

• All other duties as assigned

Drive Safety 

• Lead the departmental safety strategy in alignment with the Site Safety Strategy

• Drive excellence in safety culture and systems. Safety as our #1 focus

• Support employees in removing barriers to drive safety improvements 

• Conduct Safety Gemba walks and safety observations, correcting physical hazards and validate adherence to policies and drive safety culture

Manage People

• Define and enforce clear areas of ownership and accountability to meet key objectives

• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results

• Create a trusting relationship with peers and reports

• Conduct regular coaching sessions with direct reports to develop leadership and achieve results

• Demonstrate integrity through behavior and encourage others to do the same; lead with a positive attitude

• Build a high performing team through identifying and supporting high potential employees and identify/manage/replace employees that are underperforming

Drive Operational Performance / Control Cost

• Achieve departmental performance targets that drive cost of production (OEE, Labor efficiency, Absorption)

• Ensure Continuous Improvement methodology across the department, incorporating lean tools and capitalizing on best practice to drive cost savings.

• Work with Plant Manager to ensure engineering reliability is improved year over year.

• Work with Supply Chain Manager to drive customer satisfaction by ensuring equipment is available and operational to help achieve OTIF efficiency

Job Specifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related field is preferred

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance management required

• 8+ years of experience in industrial maintenance management required with no degree

Skills/Capabilities:

• Working knowledge of software (Teams/Excel/Word/CoPilot/SharePoint etc)

• Must be able to function as a member of a team as a leader and contributor

• Self-starter capable of operating independently

• Understand and apply all site required policies and procedures to daily operation

• Ability to organize high volumes of work and information

• Strong time management and prioritization skills

• High level of urgency

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong analytical skills and problem solving ability

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employee is required to execute the following:

• Occasional bending, reaching, pushing and pulling when retrieving and moving various items

• Lifting intermittently of various items. Typically, assistance would be provided for weights exceeding 50 pounds

• Good manual dexterity to operate computer equipment and precision measuring instruments

• Verbal communication via telephone or in person while interacting with customers, suppliers, or other employees

• Position may require more than eight hours daily and more than five days weekly to complete work assignments

• Sitting in chairs (swivel, padded, and adjustable) 

• Squatting / crouching when retrieving stored items from lower shelves and file cabinets, making equipment / product inspections, etc.

• Standing intermittently 

• Visual monitoring of computer screens

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The duties of this position are performed throughout the entire floor space of Alkegen. Duties are performed primarily in an office setting but are occasionally performed in manufacturing

areas where compliance with applicable safety rules is required. The noise level is light to moderate. During periods of travel, duties could be performed in conference centers, restaurants, places of public accommodation, modes of travel, etc.

Contacts:

Internal: This position works routinely with all site based Alkegen employees

External: This position works routinely with external vendors, visitors, suppliers, customers, and others

Supervision:

This position supervises the Maintenance department.

Safety Requirements

• Comply with all department and site safety regulations

• Wear all required personal protective equipment (PPE)

• Report all job-related illness and injuries per site safety policies

• Report all safety, health and environmental concerns to your supervisor in a timely manner

• Attend safety training as required

Quality Statement

We are committed to becoming the world’s leading specialty materials solution platform providing high quality products that meet or exceed our customers' requirements and help the world breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before.  

We will accomplish this through compliance (customer and internal requirements and applicable laws and regulations), accountability (quality is the responsibility of all employees), exemplary performance (strive to achieve “right the first time” in all activities), and continuous improvement (measure effectiveness and drive improvement against performance indicators).

If you are interested in being part of a world class Manufacturing function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you. 

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world. 

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.

This job description reflects the general details of the specific job identified and is not necessarily a complete listing of all the work requirements that may be involved in the job.