Manager Maintenance (Maintenance)

Job Summary

The Manager, Maintenance is responsible for directs, coordinating, and performing activities related to repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment, and in maintenance of buildings, grounds, and utility systems of metals service industrial plant, by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. This position reports directly to the Operations Manager.

Job Responsibilities   

• Ensures that machinery and mechanical equipment function properly by completing preventative maintenance requirements on motors, pneumatic tools, conveyer systems, and production machines, following diagrams, sketches, troubleshooting malfunctions while following established safety policies

• Reviews job orders to determine work priorities.  Schedule's repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment to ensure continuous production operations

• Directly supervises employees in the maintenance department, by interviewing, hiring, and training employees, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems

• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws

• Coordinate's activities of workers fabricating or modifying machines to manufacture new products or improve existing products

• Develops preventive maintenance program in conjunction with engineering and maintenance staff

• Review's production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities 

• Inspects operating machines for conformance with operational standards 

• Requisitions tools, equipment, and supplies required for operations

• Confers with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines

• Locates sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation; listening for problems; using precision measuring and testing instruments

• Removes defective parts by dismantling devices; using hoists, cranes, and hand power tools; examining the condition of parts

• Determines changes in dimensional requirements of parts by inspecting used parts, using rules, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments

• Adjusts functional parts of devises and control instruments by using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs and straight edges

• Controls downtime by informing production workers of routine preventative maintenance techniques; scheduling required maintenance during non-production time

• Fabricates repair parts by using machine shop instrumentation and equipment

• Maintains equipment, parts, and supplies inventories by determining needed equipment, parts, supplies and using a Kanban System; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt

• Conserve maintenance resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results

• Provides mechanical maintenance information by answering questions and requests

• Prepares mechanical maintenance reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information trends

• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing technical publications; establishing personal networks

• Other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a maintenance management position

• Experience in a metals service centers industry preferred

• Bachelor's degree in industrial or mechanical engineering preferred.

• 5+ years' experience with industrial maintenance in a metals service center or similar environment

• 1+ years supervisory experience

• Strong leadership skills 

• Excellent organizational skills to prioritize and execute preventative maintenance plans on a daily basis

• Proven ability to take initiative and establish processes and programs while working 

• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines within specified time constraints

• Ability to adapt in a changing work environment

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