Sr Maintenance Manager

What this job involves

As a Senior Maintenance Manager, you will lead our site-based maintenance team. The team is comprised of a Maintenance Manager, Area Maintenance Managers, and maintenance technicians reporting to the Regional Maintenance Manager. The primary responsibilities are to lead a large maintenance team that maximizes equipment uptime, executes equipment maintenance and projects in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment. The successful candidate will be a highly experienced subject matter expert in maintenance, workplace safety, and data-driven management and leadership.

• Lead site-based Maintenance Managers and Area Maintenance Managers in the North American Fulfilment Network
• Develop Maintenance Department business plans and provide guidance and direction for the successful implementation of those plans
• Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility
• Drive maintenance Best Practices: Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve customers' experience
• Offer guidance to senior leadership on maintenance and equipment end-of-life (EOL) issues using ROI and other analytical techniques
• Provide oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning
• Help manage vendor support and equipment relationships and leverage network size to maximize economies of scale
• Provide monitoring, auditing, and enforcement of maintenance execution, safe work practices, and institute and audit training drills across the network
• Leverage the entire maintenance team for the benefit of the North American network
• Develop and manage budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing
• Provide Fulfilment Center General Managers with visibility over the Conduct of Maintenance in their Fulfilment Centers
• Recruit, interview, and hire bar-raising talent in the Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Area Manager roles
• Create a world-class Maintenance organization

Essential functions

• Provide leadership, mentor, and manage site-based Maintenance Managers and Area Maintenance Managers in the North American Fulfilment Network
• Develop Maintenance Department business plans and provide guidance and direction for the successful implementation of those plans
• Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility
• Drive maintenance Best Practices: Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve customers' experience
• Offer guidance to senior leadership on maintenance and equipment end-of-life (EOL) issues using ROI and other analytical techniques
• Provide oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning
• Help manage vendor support and equipment relationships and leverage network size to maximize economies of scale
• Provide monitoring, auditing, and enforcement of maintenance execution, safe work practices, and institute and audit training drills across the network
• Leverage the entire maintenance team for the benefit of the North American network
• Develop and manage budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing
• Provide Fulfilment Center General Managers with visibility over the Conduct of Maintenance in their Fulfilment Centers
• Recruit, interview, and hire bar-raising talent in the Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Area Manager roles
• Create a world-class Maintenance organization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous corporate and/or regional Maintenance roles leading 80 or more employees including salaried employees
• Experience leading change and maintenance teams in multiple site environments
• 7+ years’ experience managing employees and their performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication, teambuilding, and influencing skills
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with high expectations
• Thinks big!
• Proficient data analyst and new processes developer/adapter
• Self-starter
• Strong evidence of driving goals with minimal day-to-day supervision
• Experienced in material handling equipment and large, complex integrated systems maintenance with strong statistical analysis skills
• Strong knowledge and experience with the major MHE integrators
• Exposure to Lean Concepts, TOC, layout design, cost/benefit analysis, labor productivity analysis (time studies, standardized work), safety/ergonomic/human factors
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel, AutoCAD, MS Project, and SQL
• MBA or other Master’s degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification a plus
• Professional engineering registration a plus

Physical Demands

• Repetitive bending, crouching, kneeling, reaching, twisting, sitting, standing, and walking during
• Lifting parts and tools weighing on average 20 pounds, occasionally weighing up to 49 pounds
• Dexterity in eye/hand coordination, feet (foot pedals) manual (picking, pinching, holding, grasping), and wrist motion (repetitive flexion/rotation)
• Working conditions may include small spaces, dust, fumes/odors, hot/cold temperatures, inside/outside noise, vibration, standing on concrete for long hours and wet or uneven surfaces