Maintenance Manager

About the role

The Maintenance Manager at Smurfit Westrock is responsible for providing strategic leadership on maintenance operations, developing and implementing a maintenance strategy, and ensuring the safe maintenance of plant assets.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership on maintenance operations to ensure maximum production.
• Develop and implement the short- and long-term maintenance strategy to enable operating efficiency in alignment with Smurfit Westrock’s values.
• Create Maintenance Department safety goals and plan to ensure a safe work environment.
• Create an effective Plant Maintenance Program using industry best practices to maximize equipment reliability and uptime.
• Supervise and inspect maintenance work to ensure the most effective, efficient and up to date technology and preferred maintenance practices are implemented by craftsmen.
• Manage and analyze maintenance department KPIs to assess operating efficiency and identify opportunities to drive performance excellence.
• Maintain and communicate departmental performance in Safety, Environmental, Reliability, and cost effectiveness.
• Lead the maintenance business plan and forecasts.
• Exceed industry standards and set new industry uptime and reliability standards.
• Serve as a member of the Plant Leadership Team to align on Plant goals and standards and collaborate on organizational effectiveness.
• Negotiate using win-win strategies on behalf of Smurfit Westrock with the Labor Union representatives on contract issues.
• Ensure a safe work environment and adherence to all corporate, state and federal safety, health and environmental policies, procedures and regulations by all maintenance staff.
• Foster a culture of care that promotes active participation and buy-in for safety and maintenance reliability from craftsmen.
• Ensure maintenance staff is adequately trained and motivated to achieve departmental objectives in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Lead and motivate a team of people to achieve performance excellence; ability to read people and situations and adjust approach; accordingly, proactively leads and enforces initiatives that drive organizational effectiveness; teaches others how to build trust-based relationships.
• Use strong problem-solving skills and supporting information to arrive at optimal decisions in an appropriate timeframe; know when to decide and/or when to seek additional input, and drive for consensus.

Requirements

• A 2-year technical degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering - Required
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and/or Mechanical Engineering - Preferred
• 10+ years of experience in industrial maintenance with 5+ years in maintenance management - Required
• Proficient with various software packages such as Microsoft Office - Excel, Outlook, JDE, PLC / DCS or similar CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).

Qualifications

• Proficient with various software packages such as Microsoft Office - Excel, Outlook, JDE, PLC / DCS or similar CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).

Skills

• Strategic leadership in maintenance operations.
• Development and implementation of maintenance strategies.
• Creation of safety goals and plans.
• Management and analysis of maintenance department KPIs.
• Supervision and inspection of maintenance work.
• Leadership of the maintenance business plan and forecasts.
• Exceeding industry standards and setting new industry uptime and reliability standards.
• Collaboration with the Plant Leadership Team.
• Negotiation with labor union representatives.
• Ensuring a safe work environment.
• Training and motivation of maintenance staff.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Benefits

• Attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies, and potential.
• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid time off.
• Short-term bonus incentive.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $99,375.00 - $165,625.00, depending on your role, level, and location. The range listed is also the expected pay for roles in Illinois and Colorado. The benefits for this role include short-term bonus incentive, health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid sick leave as required by applicable state/local law, 15 days of paid vacation, and 11 days of paid holidays, subject to annual change.