Facilities Manager

About the role

The Facilities Manager is responsible for overseeing all mill-wide facility infrastructure and mechanical integrity systems to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation across the mill. This role manages inspection routines, preventive maintenance workflows, contractor activities, mechanical integrity programs, and repair planning for all supporting systems. The Facilities Manager ensures these assets are maintained to OME standards, remain fully functional, and support mill operations with minimal downtime. Major facility and mechanical integrity repairs will be planned, scheduled, and executed during the annual mill shutdown each year to minimize production disruption and ensure compliance with long-term reliability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Owns the condition, performance, and compliance of all facility-wide infrastructure, including: Buildings and Structural Steel, Elevators, HVAC systems, Safety relief valves testing program, Fire protection systems (hydrants, sprinklers, extinguishers, alarms), Pressure vessels, storage tanks, boilers, deaerators, and integrity systems, Roads, walkways, fencing, lighting, and grounds, Overhead doors, roll-up doors, Cranes and Hoist program.
• Maintains complete asset program documentation with required inspection schedules and approved repair procedures that are documented and ensures systems operate at or above OME standards.
• Prepares major repair scopes for execution during the annual mill shutdown, ensuring resources, contractors, and materials are aligned.
• Develops and maintains an annual mechanical integrity and facility inspection schedule including: Pressure vessel inspections (internal/external/UT/visual), API and structural tank inspections, Safety relief valve testing cycles, Boiler water tube NDT (eddy current, UT, boroscope), Structural inspections of towers, platforms, and walkways.
• Ensures documentation of findings in JDE and tracks repairs to closure.
• Ensures compliance with OSHA, NFPA, API, NBIC, boiler codes, EPA, insurance requirements, and corporate standards.
• Coordinates inspection-driven repair plans that feed into the annual shutdown scope.
• Generates, plans, and prioritizes corrective and PM work orders.
• Coordinates mill crafts and contractors for facility and mechanical integrity repairs.
• Ensures certified weld procedures and QA/QC are used for pressure boundary repairs.
• Tracks reliability trends, OME standards, recurring failures, and asset condition.
• Manages contractor permitting, safety compliance, and job execution.
• Develops and manages major facility repair packages for the annual mill shutdown each year, ensuring all