Maintenance Manager

Location: Russellville, Arkansas

Join a North American leader in their manufacturing niche in an opportunity with tremendous career growth. We are in search of an experienced Maintenance Manager with an established track record to lead our maintenance team. We are looking for a professional who uses effective leadership, technical problem solving, and advanced TPM methods to lead maintenance in the areas of safety, environmental, asset health, product quality, costs, and the development of people.

Essential Functions, Duties and Responsibilities:

· Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team in areas such as safety, housekeeping, 5S standards, lean manufacturing, planning, TPM/reliability, cost, efficiency, quality, and labor utilization (productivity).

· Implement TPM and Reliability best practices in order ensure stability and machine efficiency.

· Effectively analyze process concerns and performance gaps and guide resources to resolve

manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum cost and prevent operation delay.

· Maintain compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, quality specifications, and

safety standards.

· Provide leadership in TPM activities such as: collection of data through PMs, maintenance

planning, coordinating planned work during outages, and continuously improving the maintenance planning and execution process.

· Direct responsibility for departmental spend and managing budget.

· Supporting safety initiatives across the site and establishing benchmarks within the maintenance team.

· Work closely with capital project teams and initiatives to ensure maintenance and reliability are

integrated into capital projects.

· Train and develop well-qualified, highly motivated teammates.

· Keep continuous communication and transparency with all involved departments on status of projects and the development progress of direct team members.

Requirements:

· Bachelor’s Degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or related).

· 5 years of experience as a proven Maintenance Manager responsible for the maintenance resources and reliability of the plant.

· Minimum of 5 years of experience working in a maintenance/engineering role.

· Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and develop teammates.

· Demonstrated ability to lead TPM and Reliability best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Managed within a Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma operation, utilizing TPM as a primary

tool for reliability.

· Prior experience with continuous process manufacturing.

· CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) experience.

· Training in reliability concepts and approaches.