Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the Maintenance and Reliability initiative focused on Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, not reactive.
• Manage, maintain, and establish maintenance procedures to ensure production meets or exceeds goals.
• Conduct failure analysis on critical assets and equipment to eliminate root cause(s) of failure and develop improvement to prevent future occurrences.
• Participate in the quality assurance of new builds and modifications to assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Review current maintenance policies and procedures to optimize maintenance program effectiveness; develop improvements to decrease asset downtime.
• Create, optimize, and validate asset PM’s and PM frequencies.
• Review and develop spare part requirements and work with Maintenance Supervisor to ensure proper stock levels of critical equipment.
• Work with existing staff to become familiar with current Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability policies, procedures, and personnel.
• Provide direction in technical matters to maintenance technicians and supervisory personnel.
• Work with Maintenance Supervisor to ensure Technicians have proper training, equipment, and management support to accomplish maintenance tasks safely, effectively, and on time.
• Develop staff and supervisor skills by conducting training meetings; one on one development sessions; outside technical skills training; and establishing and monitoring performance reviews for supervisors.
• Work with Maintenance Supervisor to mentor and train maintenance technicians (new and existing) to provide increased equipment effectiveness and to ensure program sustainability.
• Completes performance evaluations on direct reports and monitors progress on goals and objectives.
• Verify Performance Evaluations are being completed on the technical work force by his/her direct report.
• Ensure the team follows all company policies and procedures.
• Makes sure the team adheres to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety regulations.
• Able to work a flexible schedule and be willing to travel as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or a technically related field.
• A combination of Education and Experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 5 years technical experience with degree; or minimum of 15 years without degree.
• Minimum of 5 years managerial experience overseeing technical staff.
• Ability to lift 50lbs.
• Ability to be medically cleared to wear a respirator.