Plant Engineering Maintenance Manager
hace 7 días
Randleman
Job Description Our client, a leading manufacturer of disposable food packaging products, is seeking a Plant Engineering Manager to join their team in Randleman, NC. Summary Manage engineering, reliability, maintenance and facilities operations in a facility containing multiple, complex operations with at least 200 employees with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service. Essential Duties and Responsibilities • Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers., • Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development, • Monitor KPI’s anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets, • Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), • Provides management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities, • Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document maintenance plans and performance metrics:, • Failure, analysis, and corrective action procedure, • Equipment capacities and risks; and, • Other engineering solutions, • Develop and implement of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance plans, • Investigate root-cause for repetitive damage and failure rates, and calculate costs that do not meet or follow the maintenance plans, • Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement, • Lead training efforts to ensure maintenance technicians have needed resources for standard operating procedures (SOP’s), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits, • Sets priorities for maintenance backlog and oversees long-range and short-range maintenance schedules., • Lead continuous improvement initiatives, • Responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment, • Ensures that maintenance standards are compliant with statutory health and safety regulations., • Direct teams to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed, • Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements, • Identify and recommend short- and long-term business strategies, understand and drive industry best practices, • Develop and convey broad, advanced conceptual ideas, and propose and persuade several diverse stakeholders, including senior manufacturing leadership, • Establish and communicate department goals, • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on applicable machinery, equipment and facility for cross functional projects, • Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values Leadership/Supervisory Responsibilities • Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of staff, • Responsible for employee development, discipline, performance appraisals, and administration of policies, • Review staff levels to ensure they are adequate, and resources are effectively allocated to meet short- and long-term objectives, • Make recommendations regarding staffing decisions, • Conduct or participate in the interview process with new candidates. Education, Experience Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities • Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field and seven (7) years of engineering, facilities and/or machinery maintenance experience, • Seven (7) years of progressive supervisory experience, • Two (2) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability, • Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable, • Demonstrated project management experience by having successfully managed and completed a large, complex engineering project, • Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products, • Advanced knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models, • Understanding of reliability tools and strategies including direct experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), • Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products, • Knowledge of business and management principles specifically as it relates to maintenance planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance, • Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams, and to explain difficult situations, • Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences, • Ability to utilize and train employees of varying levels/skills on technology, processes and procedures, • Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issue