Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary Of Position

The Senior Maintenance and Engineering Manager is responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for the installation, modification, repair, and upkeep of:

• Facility and grounds infrastructure;
• Production, support, and pollution control equipment to maximizing reliability; and
• Ensuring proper operation to comply with applicable city, state, and federal regulations and company policies and procedures.
  
  

The scope includes managing maintenance and automation related staffing and employee development.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Multiple plant maintenance team responsibility.
• Supervises Maintenance Managers (reference Maintenance Manager job description).
• Supervises the Engineering Services and Automation teams and MRO Clerk.
• Defines the strategic direction for the maintenance and automation functions within the facility:
• Develops, aligns, and implements strategies to:
• Maximize equipment reliability balanced with cost.
• Maximize maintenance and automation technician “wrench time”.
• Continuously improve maintenance operations and support of manufacturing process equipment aligned with plant continuous improvement goals and objectives.
• Explore and identify potential innovative technologies to improve plant and equipment operations, reduce cost, support corporate sustainability goals, and equipment reliability.
• Define spare parts inventory strategy, balancing downtime with cost and supplier lead time.
• Continuously increase the skills and relevant knowledge of the maintenance team. Coordinates career development program for maintenance employees. Provides leadership in assessment, planning, and follow-up evaluation of staff, participating in self and employee development.
• Development of multi-year capital expenditure strategies.
• Implementing energy-saving measures and sustainability practices in maintenance operations.
• Maximize the effectiveness of project management.
• Ensures maintenance team demonstrates effective teamwork with plant personnel.
• Accountable for maintenance related spend vs budget.
• Accountable for maintenance employee knowledge and correct application of safety policies and procedures, such as ECP, LOTO, pre-use inspections, confined space entry, working at heights, etc.
• Manage the analysis of maintenance data to identify trends in equipment reliability that affects efficiency/OEE, cost, quality, plant capacity, and production throughput. Report key maintenance KPIs on a periodic basis, including action plans to improve areas where goals are not being met.
• Lead/manage system criticality assessments, as well as RCA’s and FMEA’s on equipment failures that significantly affect product quality, equipment uptime, and/or plant capacity.
• Provide subject matter expertise during the equipment or facility design review process to ensure reliability and safety are incorporated into new and current modifications or installations.
• Periodically inspects jobs in process and at completion to ensure that standards of workmanship and safety are maintained.
• Accountable for ensuring that all engineering and maintenance activities are in compliance with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements on covered processes, if applicable to plant.
• Leads smaller scale capital projects for the facility, coordinates with corporate engineering for larger scale capital projects.
• Effectively manages capital spending plan; includes writing capital requests, developing bid scopes, managing contractors, ROI justification, etc.