What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Manager position at Kraton Corporation?
**Make a Difference at Kraton!**
At Kraton, we make a Positive Difference, and we are looking for individuals who are also looking to make a difference in their jobs, for our customers and to the world. We are looking to hire a key member of our Operations team at our Panama City, Florida location.
The Maintenance Manager manages the strategic and operational maintenance functions/activities in the plant to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services meeting Kraton standards and is beyond the customer's expectations. Ensures a safe, environmentally sound, reliable facility by planning, setting standards, and formulating policies; develops procedures and practices, and training. Responsible for auditing, ensuring root cause failure analysis, recommendation, and implementation of improvements, and follow-up.
**Key Responsibilities**
_Kraton's internal talent acquisition team manages our recruiting efforts and from time to time works with pre-selected/pre-approved external staffing agencies. We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and/or agencies who are not pre-selected/pre-approved._
_Kraton is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer._
At Kraton, we make a Positive Difference, and we are looking for individuals who are also looking to make a difference in their jobs, for our customers and to the world. We are looking to hire a key member of our Operations team at our Panama City, Florida location.
The Maintenance Manager manages the strategic and operational maintenance functions/activities in the plant to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services meeting Kraton standards and is beyond the customer's expectations. Ensures a safe, environmentally sound, reliable facility by planning, setting standards, and formulating policies; develops procedures and practices, and training. Responsible for auditing, ensuring root cause failure analysis, recommendation, and implementation of improvements, and follow-up.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the maintenance organization responsible for continuous repair and improvement.
- Interface for all central contracted work in the plant, which includes both cost and capital work.
- Give functional directions to the material, engineering and inspection process which identifies, prioritizes, develops scopes, plans, and starts up capital projects.
- Manage the planning, scheduling, staffing, and execution of shutdowns.
- Serve on the Plant Leadership Team (PLT).
- Develop self, direct reports, and other leaders through training, use of teams and problem solving.
- Set direction and implementing key improvements in support of the business objectives.
- Strong business and technical skills in continuous and batch processing, reliability, SAP utilization and maintenance.
- Able to handle multiple, complex priorities and balance the needs of each according to business impact.
- Systemic problem solver, implementing solutions to solve root cause problems.
- Ability to create an environment that encourages and rewards teamwork and collaboration, both internally and externally.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and strong facilitation ability.
- Experience in the management of change.
- BS in Engineering.
_Kraton's internal talent acquisition team manages our recruiting efforts and from time to time works with pre-selected/pre-approved external staffing agencies. We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and/or agencies who are not pre-selected/pre-approved._
_Kraton is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer._