Maintenance Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: 5700 Hunt Road, Valdosta, Georgia

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: $115k - $125k

Travel: 5%

Join The Team:

ERCO Worldwide is looking for a Maintenance Manager to join our Valdosta team! Looking for a hardworking, safety-minded, Maintenance Manager. Reporting to a Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager sets the direction and oversees all activities related to plant maintenance (from strategy development through to implementation, execution and evaluation) while driving alignment with the corporate strategic direction and established systems and directives. Delivering on a broad range of responsibilities, the Maintenance Manager must balance an ability to draw on well-established general management capabilities with a willingness to get directly involved in the operations (applying specialty/technical skills) as required. They will also support the Plant Manager in communications with regulatory bodies, suppliers and contractors.

The Role:

• Identify and report efficiency opportunities (i.e., losses, reliability, cost and spare parts inventory) and implement appropriate solutions to optimize equipment and maintenance costs while minimizing downtime.
• Make (or actively support) critical decisions that impact the local site (i.e. team performance, maintenance and capital planning, production outage planning, costing/budgeting etc.
• Monitor relevant regulations to ensure compliance in areas such as ethical practices, employee and process safety, contractor safety, environment etc.
• Development and implementation of key people initiatives (i.e., training, talent development, skills planning, organization design, hiring/on-boarding, succession management etc.
• Review key measures on a regular basis in order ensure production and quality expectations are being met.

The Person:

• College Degree is preferred but not required.
• 6-10 years of experience in Plant Operations and Maintenance Management, Budgeting/Cost Management, and Safety and Environmental Leadership
• Strong analytical skills (i.e., process, equipment and technical data, incident/process investigation)
• Related experience in vendor/contractor negotiations is an asset
• Occasional travel as the role requires.
• Someone who is safety-oriented
• Ability to work outdoors, stand for shift, lift & climb stairs
• Must pass pre-hire physical & drug screen

The Value You Bring:

• Strong health and safety mindset
• Strong relationship builder - collaborative, team-builder
• Focused and results driven, transparent, and articulate
• Drives continuous improvement
• Resilient - can adapt to changing environments/technology
• Proactive - takes initiative, creative, stays ahead of the curve, enthusiastic, inspirational

What you'll love about us!

Competitive Benefits:

We take pride in providing our employees with a competitive compensation package to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family. Here are some of the perks we offer:

• Health and Dental Benefits on Day 1
• Health Care/Wellness Spending Account
• Annual Short Term Incentive Bonus
• Staff Recognition Awards
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Paid time off
• 401k match
• Disability Insurance

Developmental Opportunity:

At ERCO we believe in continuous improvement, not just with our processes, but with our employees too! We have an excellent L&D department who create and facilitate training courses for our ERCO University platform on all topics for the development of our people. We also help cover and encourage employees to take courses and attend conferences to further their knowledge and skillsets!

Applicants are kindly requested not to call or visit our facilities regarding employment opportunities. All applications must be submitted online or via email. For further inquiries, please contact our HR team at [redacted] or [redacted].

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees with this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.