Engineering And Maintenance Manager

Essential Functions of the Job

• Provide maintenance and engineering support for all departments to optimize performance, increase production efficiency, improve product quality, improve environmental compliance margins, and increase process and equipment reliability.
• Lead by example and encourage employees’ adherence to the mill’s general, safety and environmental policies.
• Develops and manages the maintenance and engineering teams to maximize operational performance and employee satisfaction.
• Drives results of established metrics, KPI’s and annual department goals to ensure targets are established and accomplished.
• Manages capital, major repair and maintenance budgets, tracks expenditures and progress to maximum financial efficiency.
• Manage the predictive and preventative maintenance program.
• Promote active participation and use of the Root Cause Analysis program.
• Support in troubleshooting acute and chronic process issues.
• Manage the development of designs and engineering for complex projects.
• Lead improvement projects and/or forms project teams as needed depending on the project scope.
• Execute major repairs and upgrades for mill infrastructure, air, water, gas, chemical and fire systems.
• Coordinate efforts with vendors to implement new technologies, reliability improvements, production optimization and equipment operation.
• Manage the development of new procedures to facilitate proper process or equipment operation after modification or upgrades.
• Use various software programs and production databases to document and determine effective process operation and timing of equipment maintenance/upgrades.
• Collaborate with contracted engineers and construction supervisors and crews.
• Manage the mill drawing system and the addition of assets in Maximo.
• Manage the Safe Work Plan program and provides updates/training to the program on an annual basis as needed.
• Support the call team process and mentor the members.

Qualifications

• Strong heavy manufacturing experience required.
• 10 plus years or more paper mill experience a plus.
• Must have previous management experience.
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite and the ability to learn new applications.
• Strong understanding of computerized maintenance management systems such as Maximo.
• Well-developed people practice, including strong interpersonal skills, the ability to build lasting relationships, provide recognition and demonstrate integrity and high personal standards.
• Have strong coaching skills to teach preventative and predictive maintenance, project planning, maintenance scheduling, and root cause analysis.
• Detail orientated, managerial courage, problem solving and organizational skills.

Physical Demands

• Sit at a desk for long periods of time, or sit while driving a car.
• Frequently use hands to type on a computer keyboard, answer the telephone and file documents.
• Frequently walk within the office and occasionally the distance of a large manufacturing facility.
• Occasionally reach with hands and arms above the shoulders.
• Vision abilities required are close vision and depth perception.
• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to loud, moving mechanical equipment, high precarious places.