General Maintenance Manager

AUSTIN POWDER COMPANY; Tennessee; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Powder Company is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead the reliability-focused maintenance program for a PSM-covered chemical facility. This role drives policy, procedures, and continuous improvement while coordinating with SHES, Engineering and Operations teams to align immediate and long-term maintenance needs with daily work and project shutdown planning.

The ideal candidate will develop training programs, monitor KPIs, and manage budgets to improve safety, reliability, and plant

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred.
• 7+ years in maintenance leadership preferred.
• Maintenance experience in chemical processing industry.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements a reliability-focused maintenance program.
• Coordinate with SHES, Engineering and Operations leaders.
• Lead maintenance planning for plant turnarounds and daily work management.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for maintenance and reliability.
• Direct planning, scheduling and budget adherence for maintenance activities.

Skills

Safety & Compliance

Leadership

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Technical aptitude

Science comprehension

Performance metrics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Analytical software

Compliance software

SharePoint

EAM/CMMS

LMS

Job description

Join the Family - Come work for an exciting company offering great benefits, challenging opportunities, and colleagues who feel more like family.

Job Summary The Maintenance Manager is responsible for the strategic development, implementation and adherence of a reliability focused maintenance program, ensuring the safety and well-being of our employees and the community. This role is responsible for developing policy, procedures, processes and improvement strategy to promote a world-class maintenance organization, for a PSM covered chemical manufacturing facility. This position is required to coordinate with SHES, Engineering and Operations department leaders to ensure immediate and long-term maintenance needs are understood and supported through daily work management and shutdown planning. Develops and monitors short- and long-term goals and objectives focused on achieving the company’s mission while supporting it’s values.

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities in which we operate as our highest priority.
  • Reinforce and ensure compliance with all safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead by example in promoting a strong safety culture.
  • Ensure Supervisors conduct safety meetings, job hazard analyses (JHAs), and incident investigations.
  • Support environmental and regulatory compliance related to maintenance operations.
• Prepare and administer programs, methods, systems and practices for reducing costs and improving employee and plant efficiency, safety, productivity and reliability.
• Plans, organizes, controls, integrates and evaluates the work of the maintenance team.
• Contributes to the development and monitors performance against the department’s budgets.
• Coordinate all maintenance (mechanical, electrical and instrumentation) activities for proper, safe execution of plant turnarounds. Aggressively seek to minimize cost and duration of shut-down activities.
• Establish and monitor key performance measures to ensure that a comprehensive and effective maintenance and reliability program is in place and practiced.
• Evaluate existing and implement improved training regimens for maintenance technicians and staff.
• Direct and manage site maintenance staff to implement best maintenance practices and provide technical expertise to reduce costs and improve process uptime and mechanical reliability.
• Direct the planning and scheduling program, and its effectiveness, using established benchmarks and parameters.
• Control maintenance expenditures within budget requirements by monitoring expenditures, adjusting priorities, and forecasting maintenance needs.
• Coordinate and direct the use of outside resources and contractors assigned to the plant.
• Coordinate with engineering for capital project executions to ensure effective use of capital funds.

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Analytical software
• Compliance software
• Knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint
• Knowledge of Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM) or alternative computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
• Familiarity with Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Safety & Compliance: Strong understanding of OSHA, EPA, and Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements
• Leadership & Team Development: Ability to coach, mentor, and develop a team while fostering a culture of safety and accountability.
• Problem-Solving: Skilled in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and process issues in a production environment. The ability to determine when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Critical Thinking: Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions. Use Discretion, independent judgement and decision-making skills. Must be able to consider costs, benefits, and consequences of actions and use this information to make the best choice
• Technical Aptitude: Ability to interpret P&IDs, flow diagrams, and process documentation. Ability to read electrical and mechanical schematics and OEM manuals to derive best maintenance practices for various equipment supporting daily production.
• Science comprehension: The ability to understand the facility processes and product reactivity.
• Performance Metrics: Knowledge of key performance indicators promotes the continuous execution and performance of quality maintenance practices.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred

7+ years in maintenance leadership preferred

Must possess strong interpersonal skills, the ability to work as a team, as well as be able to coach and mentor others.

Maintenance experience in the chemical processing industry.

Working Conditions

Employee’s primary duties will be the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to USN's general business operations, particularly those in the maintenance department. Employees’ time will be split between an office environment and field activities in the plant’s processing areas. Activities will involve wearing appropriate PPE, climbing stairs and working at heights, entry into confined spaces, working in high noise areas, exposure to hot and cold environments, wearing respirators, and occasionally lifting up

Austin Powder is an Equal Opportunity and Affidavit and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Austin Powder also participates in E-Verify. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

SINCE 1833, IMPROVING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.

Austin Powder has been making explosives for over 190 years and we take great pride in improving the world we live in. In 1833, the Austin family created the company to produce black powder that would help break the rock, mine the minerals and build the canals and railroads to develop the frontier. Initially along the banks of the Cuyahoga River near Akron, Ohio, we grew as the country grew. Today, Austin Powder is a world leader in the industrial explosives industry with a passionate commitment towards safety, a relentless customer focus, a family culture work environment, and a demonstration of respect of towards all. As in our early years, our mission continues to be to improve the world we live in through the safe and responsible use of explosives. Our success has been based on our core values and this has proven to be universally true around the globe as the company has expanded to be one of the leading providers of industrial explosives and blasting services in the world.