Maintenance Manager

About the role

Join ALPLA, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions serving some of the world's most recognized brands, including P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, PepsiCo, and many more. As a family-owned company with locations around the world, ALPLA offers stable careers, hands-on training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for growth. Whether you're an experienced manufacturing professional or looking to start a new career, we provide the support and development you need to succeed. At ALPLA, we invest in our people, promote from within, and foster a culture focused on safety, teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of manufacturing equipment and facilities.
• Partner closely with production and engineering teams to minimize downtime, extend asset life, and support overall plant performance.
• Ensure preventative maintenance performed to expectation.
• Ensure timely and accurate repair of machine breakdowns.
• Ensure proper and accurate record keeping of repair and parts usage.
• Ensure all equipment is updated to outlast standards for both safety and upgrades.
• Support OEM initiatives for machine installs and upgrades.
• Implement and control predictive maintenance schedules based on data acquired from machine downtime reports.
• Manage autonomous maintenance activities.
• Track maintenance spend through reporting software and support building maintenance budget during annual budget process.
• Drive cost savings initiatives through predictive maintenance and rebuild processes with parts suppliers.
• Coordinate and lead training activities for maintenance technicians.
• Perform LOTO audits for verification of all technicians.
• Audit all technician work orders in maintenance software for compliance.
• Lead and participate in RCA's for reoccurring deviations on equipment or performance.
• Lead department in 5S initiatives and installation events.
• Perform equipment kaizen events to bring equipment to like new condition.

Performance Metrics

• MTTF and MTTR
• Plant Operational Efficiency
• Tracking of Maintenance team skill level in E-Skills
• Maintenance record tracking to ALPLA standard
• MCI – Maintenance cost to budget
• RCA completions and implementations

Competencies

• Ensures Accountability
• Decision Quality
• Communicates Effectively
• Instills Trust
• Collaborates
• Values Differences
• Drives Results

Requirements

• Four-year degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum four years of work experience at ALPLA or similar industry required.
• Experience with Computer Control Systems on machines.
• Experience in working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• At least 3 years of supervisory experience required.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA).