What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance and Reliability Manager position at DS Smith?
Oversee all aspects of maintenance to ensure cost effective reliability throughout the mill operations. Ability to demonstrate mill reliability improvement via key metrics. Ability to oversee projects for implementation and oversee projects from concept to completion within financial and time budgets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supports and fosters safety and environmental compliance
- Understands and implements safe designs, safe work practices, and safe work environments
- Collects, interprets process data by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. Uses information to improve mill reliability and productivity
- Be liaison between mill operations, engineering, and maintenance in order to optimize production and efficiencies
- Coordinate with Corporate Engineering on projects and system reliability
- Evaluates the performance of systems to determine best option for replacement or improvement
- Oversees root cause analysis investigations for system failures
- Oversees projects from concept to completion to improve the reliability and productivity of the mill
- Be a resource for design activities including equipment sizing, design of PFD’s and P&ID’s, loop sheets, E/I diagrams, process control and instrument specification
- Develop strategic 3-to-5-year plans and budgets for maintenance and reliability
- Oversee development and execution on predictive and preventive maintenance programs for key operational elements
- Ensures all maintenance activities meet quality standards with respect to workmanship, processes and procedures in order to deliver plant quality targets and machine reliability
- Works on preventative and breakdown maintenance and generates appropriate reports
- Conducts risk assessments on operations and capital projects
- Establishes controls for costs by ensuring competitive bid packages, monitoring expenditures, administering contractor contracts, and managing contactors
- Establishes and oversees project schedules by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems
- Coordinates with mill department managers, planners, and engineering team on reliability, maintenance, and capital projects
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, participating in professional societies
- Networks with colleagues on processes, projects, and best in class practices
- Hold team accountable and conduct individual performance development reviews
- Effectively partner in a union, labor environment representing the site. Includes solid partnership, conflict resolution, diplomacy and people management skills.
Skills and Education:
- 5 years of management experience on Paper Machine
- 5 years of reliability experience (Pulp/Paper manufacturing preferred)
- Engineering Degree or Bachelor in Manufacturing or Paper & Pulp preferred
- Possess strong leadership, communication and teamwork skills. The ability to achieve results by influencing others and supporting the overall business.
- Experience with managing maintenance activities including creating, planning, scheduling, executing and documenting work orders
- Experience building and managing a strong reliability program
