Director, Maintenance & Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance of Occupational Health & Safety Act.
• Establish targets in equipment reliability and service standards, monitors performance against these targets/standards and determines root cause fixes that need to be made to resources, procedures, systems, equipment or technology.
• Oversee the overall maintenance and engineering and capital budgets, monitoring the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources and prioritize spending.
• Set high performance exceptions for self and others and hold them accountable for meeting established targets and results.
• Develop long term strategic plans to drive maintenance performance to world class standards.
• Negotiate large or strategically important supplier and vendor contracts to secure terms that are in the organization’s best interest.
• Build a highly competent maintenance and engineering team through coaching, training, targeted assignments and selection and create a work environment where employees can maximize their talents and perform at or above expectations.
• Plan, organize and manage capital projects, delivering results first-time, on-time and on-budget.
• Chair organizational sub-contracting meetings.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external partners and customers to ensure overall business success.
• Develop business strategy for the Maintenance & Engineering Department, including business, production and/or organizational priorities.
• Drive business strategy by linking to department and individual performance plans.
• Lead the effort to achieve stretch business results by maintaining/instituting a Continuous Improvement culture utilizing Lean Manufacturing tools.
• Ensure that all aspects of the ISO 18001, 9001, 2200, 14001 programs are delivered on time.
• Maintain maintenance KPI’s and drive improvements based on variance against long term plans.

Required Skills & Abilities

• 8 years professional experience in an engineering leadership role with a strong track record in leading change in a unionized environment.
• Prior experience in implementing and maintaining a best practice preventative and predictive maintenance program.
• Experience in project management and delivering transformational change in maintenance techniques and practices.
• Thorough understanding of lean manufacturing techniques.
• Knowledge of OHSA.
• Computer literate with experience in Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Project) and production systems, JD Edwards and Kronos Payroll.

Education

• Bachelor Degree, Engineering.