Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager – Kraton Corporation – Panama City, Florida

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The Maintenance Manager manages the strategic and operational maintenance functions and activities in the plant to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services meeting Kraton standards and exceeding customer expectations. The role ensures a safe, environmentally sound, reliable facility by planning, setting standards, and formulating policies; develops procedures and practices, and training. The manager is responsible for auditing, ensuring root‑cause failure analysis, recommending and implementing improvements, and follow‑up.

• Lead the maintenance organization responsible for continuous repair and improvement.
• Interface for all central contracted work in the plant, which includes both cost and capital work.
• Give functional directions to the material, engineering and inspection process which identifies, prioritizes, develops scopes, plans, and starts up capital projects.
• Manage the planning, scheduling, staffing, and execution of shutdowns.
• Serve on the Plant Leadership Team (PLT).
• Develop self, direct reports, and other leaders through training, use of teams and problem solving.
• Set direction and implement key improvements in support of the business objectives.

• Strong business and technical skills in continuous and batch processing, reliability, SAP utilization and maintenance.
• Able to handle multiple, complex priorities and balance the needs of each according to business impact.
• Systemic problem solver, implementing solutions to address root‑cause problems.
• Ability to create an environment that encourages and rewards teamwork and collaboration, both internally and externally.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and strong facilitation ability.
• Experience in the management of change.

• BS in Engineering.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kraton's internal talent acquisition team manages our recruiting efforts and from time to time works with pre-selected/pre-approved external staffing agencies. We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and/or agencies who are not pre-selected/pre-approved.

Kraton is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Other

Job function:
Management and Manufacturing

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing