Maintenance Manager

Job Reference: WM – 2963

Location: Ohio, USA

Salary: $90,000 - $115,000

Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Maintenance Manager – Job Summary:

We’re supporting our client, a metal castings company based in Delaware, OH who are looking for a Maintenance Manager to join their growing team. The successful Maintenance Manager will ideally have experience of working within a foundry/casting/metals manufacturing environment.

Salary:                         $90,000 – $115,000

Benefits:                      Healthcare, Dental, Pension, Sick Pay

Job Type:                    Permanent

Location:                     Delaware, OH

Job Start date:            ASAP

Responsibilities:

  • Development and management of all maintenance activities, with Safety of associates and contractors being the highest priority
  • Leading preventive & predictive maintenance/process reliability
  • Managing improvement of key performance indicators, continuous improvement of maintenance functions, and for department budget cost effectiveness.
  • Development and training of associates including coaching, mentoring and performance management
  • Participates and/or leads initiatives for capital projects and problem-solving activities
  • Assures purchasing functions follow established policies and procedures
  • Supporting, maintaining, and improving processes associated with the computerized maintenance management system for process reliability.
  • Facilitating team meetings & trainings
  • Identifying safety, environmental, quality & production issues
  • Provide leadership for the ongoing development of the organization, as well as the strategic development of individual talent for succession planning
  • Manage budgets including capital planning, contributing to controllable margin and optimizing financial levers
  • Maintain long-term big picture view to forecast obstacles and opportunities training and developing skills to enhance team performance
  • Encourage innovation among associates within the department
  • Leads the team by proactively resolving employee issues, builds team work, and ensures adherence to all applicable site policies and procedures in a fair and consistent manner
  • Staff, recruit, retain and develop talent
  • Manages the activities of manufacturing maintenance team and team leaders in the execution of the reliability maintenance program as a means to eliminate machine downtime. Responding to breakdowns when they occur with urgency.
  • Plans, organizes, and controls shift operations to ensure timely and accurate changeovers in order to meet the daily production schedule.
  • Determines root cause and implements sustainable preventatives actions in response to Quality Non-Conformances

About You:

  • Experience with preventative maintenance systems (CMMS)
  • Maintenance and 5S & Safety
  • Proactive maintenance leadership
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Budgeting and project management
  • Five (5) years’ experience as a key maintenance leader in a manufacturing facility, idealy Metals/Castings/Foundry
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
  • Evident business leadership skills and with the ability to clearly communicate vision and strategy to various audiences
  • Ability to develop and nurture strong relationships
  • Ability to motivate, engage and develop strong teams
  • Previous experience with project management, to include capital projects
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes
  • Working knowledge of electrical, mechanical and basic PLC programming/troubleshooting
  • Strong decision and problem-solving skills
  • Strong analytical, planning, organizational and time management skills
  • Proven ability to drive results to achieve financial goals
  • Collaborative and inclusive leadership style
  • Willingness to work weekends and holidays when operating conditions require

Job Application:

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