Maintenance Manager

Smurfit Westrock Company; Alabama; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Company in the United States seeks a Maintenance Manager to oversee safety, environment, quality, productivity and cost management of the maintenance department at the Mahrt paper mill in Cottonton, AL. The role drives continuous improvement of mill operations to enable efficient, high-quality production of customer products.

The position requires strategic leadership of maintenance planning, KPI monitoring, outages, and asset reliability, with collaboration across Plant

Qualifications

• Leadership experience to motivate a team and drive performance excellence.
• Strong decision-making with ability to use data.
• Proven problem-solving skills with structured approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance safety goals and plans to ensure a safe work environment.
• Drive accident prevention and environmental excellence.
• Promote continuous improvement in maintenance operations.
• Provide strategic leadership to maximize production.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies for asset reliability.
• Monitor KPI performance and manage maintenance budgets.
• Coordinate planning, scheduling, and execution of routine and outage maintenance.
• Lead Plant Leadership Team alignment on goals.
• Negotiate with labor unions on contract issues.

Skills

Leadership

Decision-Making

Problem-Solving

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

Position: Maintenance Manager

Job Code: MOMNM5 + Sr. Mgr, Maintenance

Location: Cottonton, AL

The Opportunity: The Maintenance Manager at the Mahrt paper mill in Cottonton, AL is responsible for the overall safety, environmental, quality, productivity and cost management of the maintenance department. The Maintenance Manager is also responsible for driving continuous improvement of mill operations to enable efficient, high-quality production of customer products.Key areas of responsibility include KPI monitoring & management, management and adherence to the Work Management Process, management of plant outages, maintenance cost analysis & improvement plans, 5-year major maintenance & capital planning, and overall maintenance and reliability improvement plans.

Major Job Responsibilities:

Business Excellence

• Create Maintenance Department safety goals and plans to ensure a safe work environment
• Support and drive accident prevention and environmental excellence
• Participate in and promote continuous improvement
• Responsible for keeping maintenance personnel abreast of advancing technology in diagnostic techniques, repair procedures and preventative measures to assure optimum performance at minimum cost
• Provide strategic leadership on maintenance operations to ensure maximum production
• Provide leadership and coaching regarding all planning, scheduling and execution of routine and outage maintenance work
• Provide leadership and support to drive development of detailed asset strategies for improved asset reliability.
• Develop and implement short-term and long-term maintenance strategies to enable operating efficiency in alignment with Smurfit Westrock’s values
• Ensure adherence to the established work management process
• Create an effective Plant Maintenance Program using industry best practices to maximize equipment reliability and uptime
• Ensure Root Cause Failure Analysis and troubleshooting techniques are used to solve repetitive equipment problems
• Manage and analyze maintenance department KPIs to assess operating efficiency and identify opportunities to drive performance excellence
• Monitor and communicate departmental performance in Safety, Environmental, Reliability, and Cost effectiveness
• Provide guidance in the development of the maintenance business plan and forecasts
• Lead maintenance staff to 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

People and Culture

• 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

Critical Skills / Capabilities:

• Leadership:Leads and motivates 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
• Decision-Making:Uses strong problem-solving skills and supporting information to arrive at optimal decisions in an appropriate timeframe; knows when to decide and/or when to seek additional input, and drive for consensus
• Problem-Solving:Applies knowledge to frame