Maintenance Manager
About the role
The Maintenance Manager position at Guardian Industries in DeWitt, Iowa, leads a team responsible for maintaining various plant machinery including glass melting furnaces, raw material batching equipment, utility systems, and automated glass handling equipment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Maintenance department and its activities to align with the plant vision.
- Coach and provide feedback to employees to help them recognize and improve their strengths and weaknesses.
- Develop solutions and make recommendations for maintenance and operations teams using analytical tools like RCM, FMEA, and RCA.
- Create an environment that encourages learning and continuous improvement among employees.
- Implement reliability-centered maintenance management practices to ensure equipment is always ready for operation.
- Use maintenance data systems to support work orders, preventative maintenance, and reliability improvements.
- Organize, coordinate, and lead the maintenance team to meet plant objectives.
- Diagnose equipment problems, determine repair/replacement needs, tear down and repair/replace defective parts, and reassemble equipment.
- Manage cost control and continuous improvement in the department, including managing critical and consumable spare inventory in the plant storeroom.
Requirements
- Experience leading and managing a Maintenance/Reliability department.
- Experience in partnering with production leadership to resolve issues and improve plant equipment reliability.
- Experience with identifying and developing leading indicators for asset reliability.
- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, and industrial-level electrical/PLC's, motor control centers, utility systems, transformers, switchgears, and process instrumentation.
Qualifications
- Experience in innovation and automation.
- Experience with condition monitoring through the use of technology and sensors to monitor asset health in real-time.
- Experience with robotic equipment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Experience working in a 24/7/365 operation.
Skills
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Ability to develop and implement maintenance strategies.
- Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance practices.
- Proficiency in maintenance data systems.
- Experience with condition monitoring technologies.
- Experience with robotic equipment.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement plans, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region.
Pay
Compensation details are not specified in the job posting.
Schedule
The schedule for this position is not specified in the job posting.