Maintenance Manager

The Role

We are looking for our next Maintenance and Reliability Manager within our Maintenance Team. The Maintenance and Reliability Manager will be responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction for the site’s maintenance organization. The role directs and coordinates activities of the maintenance department including planned and preventive maintenance, design, manufacture, and test components, products, and systems by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is a key member of the Plaquemine site leadership team and supports and establishes a strong safety and productive culture.

This position is located in Plaquemine, Louisiana
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The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $118,400 - $160k. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• Serves as proactive member of Management Team by providing day-to-day oversight of maintenance department.
• Actively participates on the Site Leadership team to set direction and optimize overall site productivity.
• Inspires and motivates the organization through leadership and strong connection with the team fostering an empowered organization. Shows appreciation for employees and maintains a servant leadership mindset.
• Utilize process knowledge to drive performance with unit teams.
• Provide leadership for enforcement of plant rules, practices, and ways of working to optimize plant safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Ensure all assigned employees understand and comply with all plant safety rules, policies and standards operating procedures.
• Ensure employee adherence to Life Critical procedures.
• Interacts with other members of the leadership team, plant staff, and divisional cross-functional groups to optimize plant operations.
• Ensure the maintenance department adheres to the company’s Core Principles and Quality GMP and Food Safety guidelines.
• Ensure maintenance department objectives are aligned with site and business direction.
• Improve maintenance efficiencies and develop and implement best practices.
• Ensure effective daily management of the maintenance department, which includes Union employees, and staff.
• Direct the Maintenance Team in the preparation of shutdown work schedules in order to maintain/exceed the level of performance needed to meet departmental goals.
• Resolves worker grievances or submits unsettled grievances to Human Resources for action.
• Provide technical expertise to analyze and resolve recurring issues that impact plant uptime.
• Maintain a strategic plan to protect assets and ensure the facility condition remains in compliance with corporate standards.
• Drive a maintenance transformation as you remove the wall between maintenance and operations moving to a proactive maintenance model decreasing equipment downtime.
• Implement Lean concepts, improve equipment reliability, operations productivity and optimize overall asset life cycle costs.
• Implement maintenance engineering and construction project proposals in order to achieve or exceed levels of production, upgrade maintenance troubleshooting, decrease production interruptions and improve maintenance productivity.
• Support improvements in SAP maintenance management system.
• Oversee all site utilities, maintenance contracts, facility and infrastructure engineering.
• Direct the Maintenance Team in the preparation of shutdown work schedules and assigning of projects in order to maintain/exceed the level of performance needed to meet departmental goals.
• Oversee all annual outage planning and scheduling.
• Knows the business model and strategy for facility. Explains to maintenance how the plant fits into the business and corporation.
• Effectively manage department budget and optimize maintenance spend.
• Support safety policies and procedures by ensuring that all…