Maintenance Engineering Manager

Description

THIS NOTICE IS BEING POSTED BECAUSE AN APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT ALIEN LABOR CERTIFICATION WILL BE FILED FOR a Maintenance Engineering Manager. ANY PERSON MAY PROVIDE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE BEARING ON THE APPLICATION TO:

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Atlanta National Processing Center, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N-5311, Washington DC 20210

This notice is posted in compliance with 20 CFR 656.10(d). Any person may provide documentary evidence bearing on the application to the Certifying Officer of the U.S. Department of Labor holding jurisdiction over the location of the proposed employment referenced above.

LaMotte Chemical Products Company located in Chestertown, MD, has an opening for a “Maintenance Engineering Manager” at a minimum rate of pay of $73,299.00- max of $127,012 per year.

1. Ensures that Maintenance Engineering team members, contractors and other maintenance related individuals work safely and comply with all applicable safe work practices/procedures.

2. Leads the Maintenance Engineering function at the Chestertown site to safely achieve the highest level of asset effectiveness, while maintaining quality standards.

3. Establishes and maintains maintenance management system records, equipment histories and other data to maximize asset availability and performance (OEE).

4. Works directly with new equipment manufacturers:

• Develop equipment specifications.
• Approves mechanical drawings.
• Resolves any issues.
• Develops and conducts Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) when equipment is completed, before being shipped to LaMotte.
• Manages and is involved in equipment installation, start up, and testing.
• Trains LaMotte’s equipment operators and Maintenance team on the operation and care of equipment.
• Troubleshoots and addresses equipment failures/issues.
• Aids in the development of equipment preventative maintenance (PM) practices and spare part stocking levels.

5. Assures that LaMotte proprietary automation equipment is operating, has spare parts, and that maintenance personnel are trained on robotics, vision systems, controls, and custom human machine interfaces.

6. Assures critical spares, subassemblies and components are available.

7. Attends daily production and weekly Operations & Quality Leadership Team meetings.

8. Ensures that all preventative and predictive maintenance work is completed as specified and optimized as new information is obtained.

9. Ensures that all LaMotte specific humidity requirements are met for high control environmental rooms, and that all monitoring equipment properly detects out of specification conditions within the LaMotte Building Management Alarm System.

10. Leads and participates in Kaizen events as needed to obtain step-function improvements in performance.

11. Identifies, develops, justifies, plans and implements capital projects to improve maintenance and facilities reliability and performance, without compromising LaMotte specific environmental specifications.

12. Works with R&D, QA, and Operations, investigates problematic production processes and/or products using Lean, Six Sigma, SPC, DOE and other sound engineering techniques. This may be done independently or as part of a team. Works closely with Operations to implement improvements.

13. Coaches and supervises five (5) Engineering Technicians employees:

a. Conducts oneself professionally and leads by example. Maintains confidentiality of company information and personnel information.

b. Maintains records of each employees' attendance Reviews timecards for accuracy and approval and submits them in a timely manner to Payroll for processing.

c. Assists employees with questions or problems they have regarding work assignments, priorities, safety, personnel issues, etc.

d. Coaches and develops staff, fosters a team atmosphere.

e. Counsel’s employees when necessary and recommends to Management such personnel actions, disciplinary action, transfer, termination of employment, etc. Documents any issues, counseling efforts, etc.

f. Evaluates employees using the Company's performance appraisal system.

14. Performs other duties…