Senior Manager, Engineering

Maintenance and Automation Functions

• Defines strategic direction for maintenance and automation functions within the facility.
• Develops, aligns, and implements strategies to maximize equipment reliability balanced with cost.
• Maximizes maintenance and automation technician “wrench time”.
• Continuously improves maintenance operations and support of manufacturing process equipment aligned with plant continuous improvement goals and objectives.
• Explores and identifies potential innovative technologies to improve plant and equipment operations, reduce cost, support corporate sustainability goals, and equipment reliability.
• Defines spare parts inventory strategy, balancing downtime with cost and supplier lead time.
• Increases the skills and relevant knowledge of the maintenance team.
• Coordinates career development program for maintenance employees.
• Provides leadership in assessment, planning, and follow-up evaluation of staff, participating in self and employee development.
• Develops multi-year capital expenditure strategies.
• Implements energy-saving measures and sustainability practices in maintenance operations.
• Maximizes the effectiveness of project management.
• Ensures maintenance team demonstrates effective teamwork with plant personnel.
• Accountable for maintenance related spend vs budget.
• Accountable for maintenance employee knowledge and correct application of safety policies and procedures, such as ECP, LOTO, pre-use inspections, confined space entry, working at heights, etc.
• Manages analysis of maintenance data to identify trends in equipment reliability that affects efficiency/OEE, cost, quality, plant capacity, and production throughput.
• Reports key maintenance KPIs on a periodic basis, including action plans to improve areas where goals are not being met.
• Leads/manage system criticality assessments, as well as RCA’s and FMEA’s on equipment failures that significantly affect product quality, equipment uptime, and/or plant capacity.
• Provides subject matter expertise during the equipment or facility design review process to ensure reliability and safety are incorporated into new and current modifications or installations.
• Periodically inspects jobs in process and at completion to ensure that standards of workmanship and safety are maintained.
• Accountable for ensuring that all engineering and maintenance activities are in compliance with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements on covered processes, if applicable to plant.
• Leads smaller scale capital projects for the facility, coordinates with corporate engineering for larger scale capital projects.
• Effectively manages capital spending plan; includes writing capital requests, developing bid scopes, managing contractors, ROI justification, etc.

Leadership and Development

• Supervises Maintenance Managers.
• Supervises the Engineering Services and Automation teams and MRO Clerk.
• Coordinates career development program for maintenance employees.
• Provides leadership in assessment, planning, and follow-up evaluation of staff, participating in self and employee development.

Project Management and Compliance

• Manages capital spending plan; includes writing capital requests, developing bid scopes, managing contractors, ROI justification, etc.
• Effectively manages capital spending plan; includes writing capital requests, developing bid scopes, managing contractors, ROI justification, etc.
• Ensures maintenance team demonstrates effective teamwork with plant personnel.
• Accountable for maintenance related spend vs budget.
• Accountable for maintenance employee knowledge and correct application of safety policies and procedures, such as ECP, LOTO, pre-use inspections, confined space entry, working at heights, etc.
• Ensures maintenance team demonstrates effective teamwork with plant personnel.
• Accountable for ensuring that all engineering and maintenance activities are in compliance with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements on covered processes, if applicable to plant.