Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Job Summary:

The Manager of Maintenance & Reliability oversees the maintenance team, ensuring successful completion of maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of complex chemical processing equipment. You'll coordinate preventive maintenance activities, provide guidance to optimize production, quality, and safety, and manage reliability improvement projects. This role ensures the facility and equipment are maintained at the highest level to achieve performance metrics efficiently.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead site turnaround planning efforts.
• Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team in areas such as safety, planning, TPM/reliability, cost, efficiency, quality, and labor utilization.
• Develop and implement the plants overall preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Implement reliability best practices in order to ensure dependability and equipment efficiency.
• Analyze process concerns and performance gaps and guide resources to resolve manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum cost and prevent operation delay.
• Initiating corrective/preventive and continuous improvement opportunities and actively participate in developing, implementing, and verifying corrective/improvement actions.
• Support Process Safety Management (PSM), Health Safety and Environmental, and continuous improvement plans.
• Champion the creation of and attainment of maintenance departmental goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Direct responsibility for managing departmental budget including plant repair and maintenance expenses.
• Evaluates long-term needs in relation to major projects and property improvements and makes recommendations to Management.
• Ensures spare parts and critical equipment lists are maintained and stocked by our purchasing and warehousing department.
• Provide a safe working environment for all employees to ensure minimal incidents or injuries.
• Seek, develop, implement, and facilitate training programs for all Maintenance personnel.
• Interact directly with the site Management Team to ensure effective preventive maintenance and a reduction of downtime.
• Maintain an open channel of communication to ensure positive customer relations.
• Provide monthly progress reports to Plant Manager.
• Ensure timely orders of materials and parts for the plant.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• 10+ years in plant maintenance experience.
• Bachelors degree or higher (mechanical engineering preferred).
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements, including OSHA, EPA, NFPA standards, etc.
• Knowledge of various chemical unit operations.
• Knowledge with maintenance planning & computerized maintenance management software.

This position does not offer sponsorship. Only individuals who are US Citizens or green card holders are eligible to apply.