Position Overview:The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance activities across a large, multi-unit sulfuric acid manufacturing facility. This role ensures safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of plant assets through effective planning, execution, and continuous improvement of maintenance systems.
What you will be doing:- Responsible for the planning and daily operations of the maintenance department, including contractors
- Provide primary customer interface to plant operations
- Maintain Maintenance forecast and monitor spending
- Oversee area maintenance and capital activities
- Drive improvement in Planning and Scheduling Activities, Backlog Mgmt., PM Compliance and Optimization, reliability, and TA Planning and Execution
- Ensure compliance with regulatory mechanical integrity inspections
- Perform performance assessments to drive improvement
- Drive area improvement by creating and maintaining an accountability culture
- Ensure that all company and regulatory requirements are met for Maintenance Employees
- Develop effective training plans to help develop subordinates and increase maintenance employee's qualifications.
- Participate in labor management meetings as necessary.
- Abide by the Company, plant, and lab policies/procedures and safety rules
- Lead, support, promote, improve, and enforce compliance, all HS&E, corporate/plant policies, procedures, performance standards and ISO/RC 14001
- Actively participate in HSE and Process Safety activities and initiatives (Employee Participation Program)
- Performs other duties/projects as specified
Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering; OR 15 years of Ecoservices maintenance experience; plus working knowledge of maintenance-related activities; people and supervisory experience
- Must have at least 10+ years of experience in a chemical processing plant or refinery.
- Must have experience in managing the maintenance and repair of multiple chemical manufacturing units at the same time.
- Must have a demonstrated record of accomplishment on building a safety culture and accident reduction.
- Preferred to have experience managing in a union environment, which may include sitting in on negotiations, grievances, and / or an arbitration.
- Must have working knowledge of Maintenance-related activities; leadership, people, and supervisory/management experience
- Must be able to troubleshoot concerns and problems in the Maintenance Department (basic engineering principles)
- Working knowledge of Computer Based Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) such as SAP, Maximo, or Hippo.