Maintenance and Engineering Manager

Ingevity; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Ingevity is seeking a Maintenance and Engineering Manager in the United States to lead maintenance, reliability, and project engineering efforts across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation domains. You will supervise teams, manage budgets, and drive capital projects while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

The role emphasizes outage planning, contractor management, and continuous improvement of resource planning and execution in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science required.
• Engineering degree preferred.
• 10+ years of related experience required; manufacturing/industrial environment preferred.
• Experience supervising and/or leading plant maintenance teams.
• Experience planning, managing, and implementing expense projects.
• Experience planning, managing, and implementing capital projects.
• Experience managing budgets.

Responsibilities

• Manage plant maintenance functions to include mechanical, electrical and instrumentation functions.
• Prioritize project engineering activities, including capital requests, design, approvals, forecasting, and budget management.
• Collaborate with project engineering group to include scope development, equipment specifications and construction and startup assistance.
• Manage contractor program, including qualifications of contractors and ensuring they are utilized according to company standards and practices.
• Lead the annual outage planning process, including budget development, scope definition, staffing plans, and duration scheduling.
• In all areas of responsibility, ensure compliance with environmental, safety and health regulations.

Skills

Maintenance management

Project management

Reliability engineering

Leadership

Communication

Budget management

Capital project planning

Education

Bachelor of Science

Engineering degree preferred

Job description

Job Family Group: Engineering Are you ready to do something remarkable? Ready to collaborate with an incredible team to solve problems that improve people’s lives? Meet Ingevity. At Ingevity, we develop innovations that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Our products enable oil to flow better, crops to grow fuller, roads to last longer and ensure that the air we all breathe is cleaner. Our people come from all different backgrounds and help reimagine new possibilities daily. We understand there is no challenge too big and no contribution too small. We seek out new ideas for tackling complex problems and celebrate achieving the improbable. We value each person’s unique talents and synergize them to create meaningful impact and sustainable solutions for our customers and our world. Bold. Energetic. Ingenious. Genuine. If these qualities describe you, we’d love for you to join Ingevity!

The Maintenance and Engineering Manager will provide project engineering, maintenance, and reliability support to include mechanical, instrumentation and electrical repair, contractor supervision, project engineering, process control, capital budgeting, storeroom management and necessary training for team.

How you will impact Ingevity:

• Manage plant maintenance functions to include mechanical, electrical and instrumentation functions.
• Utilize methods to continuously improve efficiency of resources, planning, scheduling and execution of work orders.
• Prioritize project engineering activities, including capital requests, design, approvals, forecasting, and budget management.
• Collaborate with project engineering group to include scope development, equipment specifications and construction and startup assistance.
• Manage contractor program, including qualifications of contractors and ensuring they are utilized according to company standards and practices.
• Lead the annual outage planning process, including budget development, scope definition, staffing plans, and duration scheduling.
• Manage process control function, including strategic and short-term reliability and redundancy.
• Manage Mechanical Integrity program.
• Manage Storeroom and vendors that provide parts and services.
• In all areas of responsibility, ensure compliance with all applicable environmental, safety and health regulations and requirements.
• Develop individuals and the organization through training, mentoring and managing performance.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor of Science required.
• Engineering degree preferred.
• Comparable experience in Project Management, Maintenance and Reliability Management will be considered in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of related experience required; manufacturing/industrial environment preferred.
• Experience supervising and/or leading plant maintenance teams required.
• Experience planning, managing, and implementing expense projects.
• Experience planning, managing, and implementing capital projects.
• Experience managing budgets.
• Must be able to communicate effectively through oral and written methods.
• Skilled in problem-solving and troubleshooting complex technical obstacles.
• Working knowledge of cash flow accounting, and a broad understanding of structural, civil, electrical, mechanical and process control engineering.
• Broad understanding of structural, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering concepts as they relate to plant operations and maintenance.
• Experience leading reliability initiatives to include PM compliance, Predictive technologies (PdM), RCA/RCFA, asset hierarchy, and overall asset management strategy.
• Leadership skills to include organizational, facilitation, teambuilding, mentoring and delegation.

Travel Requirements: Minimal

Benefits and Eligibility

• This role is eligible for relocation assistance.
• This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.
• The successful candidate must not now, or in the future, require sponsorship to work in the US.

Ingevity is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Recruiting Agencies: Ingevity does not accept unsolicited resumes and therefore, will not be responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.

Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. Headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, Ingevity operates from 23 locations around the world and employs approximately 1,600 people. For more information, visit Ingevity.com.