Area Manager, Maintenance

Reporting to the Plant Manager, this individual will lead a team of technicians to safely manage all maintenance operations for the site. The ideal candidate will have a strong mechanical background and excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and implements maintenance methods and procedures designed to reduce downtime, supply chain losses, minimize operating costs, and optimize the utilization of technicians, materials and assets. 
• Partners with manufacturing teams to deliver production targets and quality objectives. 
• Provides technical expertise to increase the number of zero breakdown machines, reduce breakdown re-occurrences, and increase Mean Time between Failure (MTBF). 
• Coordinates processes to develop and train maintenance, manufacturing operators, and Team Leaders. 
• Supports the 8 TPM pillars with technical resources and coaching to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Coordinates the Effective Maintenance (EM) pillar resources to deliver reliable maintenance processes including: 5S, Visual Factory and spare parts inventories for all new and existing equipment as well as equipment modifications. 
• Drives improvements during equipment changes to deliver new procedures, breakdown reduction, root cause analysis, as well as risks and hazards. 
• Maintains an integrated maintenance master plan utilizing quantitative information consistent with business goals. 
• Provides coordination of support services for machining, welding, electrical and miscellaneous contracted services. 
• Implements other support pillars to comply with safety, good housekeeping, quality and related regulatory requirements. 
• Willing to work outside, some lifting may be required; heat and dust can be part of the environment. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering or related discipline, with 5 years' of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast changing manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination or experience/education/certifications.  
• Must have experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements. 
• Experience with TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Pillars - Autonomous and Effective Maintenance in a process environment is preferred. 
• Must have applied working knowledge of time, condition and predictive based maintenance processes.  
• Must have experience managing P.M. (Preventative Maintenance) practices. 
• Proven track record coaching, mentoring, and motivating and managing employees' skills development. 
• Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes. 
• Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions is required. 
• Experience with shop floor/information systems (i.e. PC, PLC, and/or Robotics) is preferred. 
• Working knowledge of Analytical Process Mapping is preferred.  
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel with the ability to learn other applications related to the job. 

Working Conditions

• Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees 
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment 
• Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment.

Physical Requirements

• Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
• Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
• Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.