Maintenance Manager

Provide leadership to ensure all company safety rules and regulations in accordance with Mine Health & Safety Act are observed by employees. This includes planning the necessary resources in manpower and budgeting to accomplish site safety goals in the PaSSE and SHARP plans, and monitoring the safety program and its effectiveness to ensure a safe workplace

Provides leadership for improvements within the maintenance groups

Participate in appropriate safety training for all assigned employees

Interface with MSHA and other governing health and safety agencies at local and federal level as required

Follow up investigations working with Safety Committee, and others as needed

Coordinate and monitor the activities of all maintenance employees assigned

Ensure preventative action is taken to avoid the occurrence of nonconformities relating to product or process or to the quality system

Ensures correct, accurate, and timely reporting of information on all maintenance Work Orders, including “Urgent Repairs”

Recommend solutions to problems related to the product or process, or to the quality system, and, when approved, participates in the implementation, management and verification of those solutions

Provide technical and tactical support to the Maintenance Team, Engineer, Production and Project Manager to maximize kiln efficiency and minimize unscheduled down time

Participate in the identification of and/or implement training plans and needs for assigned plant maintenance personnel, and coordinate training for all employees when necessary to assure job safety and efficiency

Ensure the execution of the daily maintenance plan to meet sales and production needs while maintaining efficient maintenance costs and explaining significant variances from the plan

Routinely monitor key performance indicators identifying opportunities for improvement and making appropriate supervisory and management personnel aware of the findings

Ensure the Management System is effective and well understood by all employees

Actively participate in the daily morning production and maintenance meeting to communicate with production and maintenance, all safety talks, and weekly scheduling meetings between maintenance and production

Ensure a good understanding of the CMMS/SAP maintenance modules

Ensure personnel perform good quality work and provide feedback to each worker on progress in meeting company expectations and goals

Planning of yearly plant outages (Microsoft Project or similar).

Maintain SAP work order system, enter RFQ in SAP and manage SAP parts inventory with warehouser.

Manage contractors onsite safety, performance reviews and manage contractor disputes.

Meets or exceeds safety, environment and legislation regulations and laws

Meet budget and Inventory goals

Kiln Reliability – 98%

Completion of preventive maintenance plan – aim of 100%

Manage 80/20 percentage for electrical preventive maintenance

Timely completion of calibration requirements

Meet or exceed agreed goals and targets on a consistent basis

Successfully coordinates maintenance functions requirements with contractors, RFQ and contactor disputes.

Bill Materials verification is consistently complete and correct

Knowledge of people management skills

Experience in mining and/or heavy engineering industry is considered a plus for this position

Knowledge of continuous manufacturing business sector

Technical creditability as it relates to industry, with a preference on mining and kilns

Demonstrated ability to assess organizational and people issues, provide coaching and mentoring, and deliver solutions that improve facility performance; Demonstrated ability to take initiative, strong organization and prioritization skills

Demonstrates the ability to apply appropriate conflict management strategies to ensure conflicts are resolved to the benefit of all parties

Establishes and maintains highly productive working relationships across the organization with all groups within the region and the company; demonstrating respect for conflicting points of view, listens to others, and builds strong working relationships

Demonstrates excellent technical writing and computer skills for producing SOP, reports, and other appropriate communications

Knows appropriate negotiating tactics and is able to negotiate win/win agreements without compromising principles

Demonstrates the ability to manage maintenance projects using project management methodology and techniques

Uses quality management skills to ensure all procedures and work activities conform to work specifications and standards

Demonstrates the ability to work autonomously with an emphasis on being results oriented

Associates or Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology or related field preferred

7+ years industrial, mechanical maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment required

5+ years of supervisory experience; industry background in heavy manufacturing related; mining, paper mills, steel plants, refining, utilities, refractory, heavy equipment fabrication, stone processing, cement plants industries preferred

Positive & proactive attitude with ability to address issues and implement solutions; working knowledge of material handling feeders, convey or belt systems, and general knowledge pumping systems; experience in PLC or Wonderware troubleshooting a plus

Strong computer skills required; experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook); SAP and Microsoft Project experience is a plus

Strong interpersonal/people skills; results driven; self-starter; able to initiate and be willing to hold others accountable for achieving company and site objectives

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedures manuals, and blueprints

Ability to write and communicate routine reports and correspondence

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 all of the essential functions, provided such accommodations to not create undue hardship to the company.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arm; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell; and is occasionally required to stand. Additionally, the job requires the employee to work on occasion at heights.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus