Facility Manager

Position: Facility Manager/Maintenance Planner

Reports to: Regional Manager

Department: North American Operations (Buffalo Stamping Plant)

Position Purpose: The Facility Manager/Maintenance Planner position oversees and directs complex industrial projects including construction at specific customer sites while maintaining customer, vendor, and inter-divisional relationships. Critical decision-making capabilities and excellent communication skills are required to plan and accomplish goals. The Facility Manager/Maintenance Planner is responsible for generating revenue, overseeing project execution, and ensuring profitability. This position works alongside the Leadec Engineering Department and Leadec Project Services to plan and execute projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operates within the Leadec Values to promote an overall positive culture.
• Work safely at all times.
• Maintain high ethical standards and an appropriate level of confidentiality.
• Ensures that all project(s) safety guidelines at the site are adhered to in accordance with our safety program requirements.
• Provide technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to encourage better decision making.
• Drive successful implementation of Leadec and customer strategic initiatives.
• Relationship management -- both internally within Leadec and externally between Leadec's customers and Leadec's business partners.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and determine a clear path of action with goals and metrics in all areas of responsibility.
• Accountable for sales, operating cash flow, P&L and legal compliance
• Operate the business within budgetary guidelines and report progress and key performance indicators on a monthly basis
• Coordinating estimates for material and labor for repairs
• Manage and schedule all contractors performing work at the site
• Management of Leadec OS or other CMMS systems
• Development and coordination for site specific task instructions
• Knowledge of bid development and statement of requirements generation.
• Track and report all regulatory events
• Identify areas of improvement, maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, material consumption and equipment life and serviceability.
• Oversee project during all aspects start to finish.
• Keep Complex and/or Regional Manager informed of abnormal or critical situations in a timely manner.
• All other duties as assigned by Leadec Regional Manager

Competencies:

• Managing Complexity
  • Precisely understanding complex topics and drawing logical conclusions.
• Action Orientation
  • Quickly initiating actions, pursuing them in a persistent manner (even if there are any obstacles) and proactively looking for solutions for internal and external customers.
• Managing Tasks
  • Ensuring that tasks are led to a very good result in a planned, systematic, and targeted manner in the customer's interest.
• Creating Synergies
  • Working together constructively and thus creating synergies in the company's interest.
• Open Communication
  • Being able to state a position and to openly address and fully discuss critical issues in the interests of the best possible result.
• Entrepreneurship
  • Acting in such a way as to ensure the company's long-term success and growth

• Driving Change
  • Being open to new things, developing new ideas and driving and promoting change.
• Self-Management
  • Managing and developing yourself in such a way that you are motivated and remain calm and effective (even under a heavy workload)
• Motivating and Developing People
  • Motivating employees for high performance and developing them in the company's interest and in accordance with the employees' potentials.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Communication Skills - Ability to communicate with all levels of Leadec and customer employees.
• Language Ability -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Must be highly organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently.
• Must possess strong leadership skills.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks, priorities, and easily adapt to changing situations.
• Ability to provide direction and hold a team accountable to meeting the desired results.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite -- including Excel, Word, MS Project, Power-point (or similar), AutoCAD, physical blueprints.
• Financial skills: budgeting, costing, forecasting, statistical analysis, P&L ownership, cost accounting
• Experience with management of roof repairs and roof maintenance programs
• Experience with major equipment services such as:

• Automotive conveyor, robot systems, paint booths and air handling units etc.

• Experience with equipment mechanical services:

• Piping, HVAC, fire safety systems and elevator/escalator systems

• Experience with electrical services:

• Service low to medium voltage electrical systems

Position Qualifications:

• Previous experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of
• BS in Engineering, construction management or equivalent experience considered.
• Previous project management experience required.
• Experience in 3^rd party contract(s) management.
• Experience with Gannt charts, Critical Path Analysis and Resource Leveling
• Travel required up to 15%

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the key actions of the job:

• Required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is high); the employee is frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surfaces from 4-12 hours. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, lift, stoop, or crouch.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment
• Work is performed in an industrial-manufacturing environment with occasional time spent working on a computer or at a desk.