Engineering and Maintenance Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Cook up with Site Engineering and Maintenance Lead, Maintenance Managers, and Engineering Managers to develop and deploy Asset Management and Reliability Strategies within the East Alton complex.
• Work to define and implement standard work within the maintenance function.
• Understand the current technical skill level of incumbent maintenance and engineering employees, identify gaps to desired state, and develop training opportunities to close the gap.
• Utilize standards and technical skill requirements to develop training program as a path toward non-incumbent employees joining the maintenance team.
• This role will have the responsibility of program manager for East Alton Maintenance apprenticeship programs.
• This role will also have responsibility to develop a road map for East Alton engineers to develop the skills to be a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) Coach and mentor team to build and maintain the right skills and habits to sustain success.
• Develop and implement a skills matrix with human resources that will drive a training and succession plan.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve operating efficiencies through utilization of lean methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 7-10 years managerial experience.
• Experience in preventive and predictive maintenance practices using reliability tools such as Pareto analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA).
• Ability to communicate and make decisions, adapt to cultural change, and work within a diverse environment.
• Requires skills to manage conflict, coach, and mentor.
• Experience as a "strategic" leader as well as a "tactical" leader.
• Proven ability to develop and manage large budgets.
• Engineering, Maintenance Reliability project management experience.
• CMRP certification a plus.
• CMMS experience a plus.
• Experience in a union environment implementing change initiatives considered a plus.