Maintenance Manager

Potters Industries; Muscatine (IA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Potters Industries in Muscatine, IA, seeks an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead plant equipment maintenance, facilities needs, and a direct-report team, ensuring reliability and cost control. You will manage daily maintenance scheduling, safety work orders, and capital projects with engineering, while driving preventive, predictive, and condition-monitoring programs.

Requirements include a Bachelor's in Operations Maintenance or related field (or equivalent), 5+ years of supervision, CMMS

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Maintenance or technical-equivalent education.
• 5+ years experience managing direct reports.
• Experience using CMMS to plan, manage and analyze maintenance activities.
• Strong understanding of mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical systems of heavy industrial equipment.
• Proficiency with procurement software and Advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

• Respond to internal maintenance concerns and manage planned, preventive, and predictive maintenance.
• Understand plant layout and troubleshoot maintenance system issues.
• Manage daily maintenance scheduling including safety and routine work orders.
• Maintain storeroom inventory, work order System, and master equipment list.
• Coordinate plant capital projects with engineering and manage contractor work on site.
• Support site safety initiatives and lead the Maintenance Department team.

Skills

Maintenance management

Team leadership

CMMS

Excel proficiency

Electrical/mechanical troubleshooting

Procurement software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Operations Maintenance

Technical School degree in Automation, Instrumentation and Electromechanical

High School/GED with experience

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

We are offering a base salary of $109,500. Plus a comprehensive benefit package

The Maintenance Manager manages the daily requirements and scheduling for maintenance of plant equipment and facility needs. They coordinate these duties while leading a team of direct reports in their department, handling all areas of personnel for the team.

What you will be doing:

• Promptly responds to address internal customer maintenance concerns, and effectively manages a system to conduct planned, preventive and predictive maintenance to optimize plant reliability, cost, and asset life within established budget constraints
• Must understand the plant layout, equipment, process flows and impact of process parameters on process outcomes and have the ability to troubleshoot problems as they occur, especially with regard to maintenance systems
• Manages daily maintenance scheduling, including safety work orders, routine work orders, preventive maintenance work orders
• Responsible for the proper management of the storeroom inventory; Maintains work order system, part order system and master equipment list
• Maintains PLC alarm logs, plans all maintenance and contractor shutdown activities
• Actively supports site JHSC through participation, support and promotion; Ensures compliance with corporate/plant policies and procedures, communicates all issues, problems or concerns of the plant to unit manager and plant manager; Leads and manages a team in the Maintenance Department in all areas of personnel
• Encourages and implements a teamwork environment; Provides direction, resources and developmental support for all direct reports
• Encourages and supports the professional development of staff to achieve the next level of performance and advancement
• Manages plant capital projects and works with engineering to develop capital budget, plans, details, schedules and executes capital projects. Coordinates with project engineers as appropriate, interacts with Unit Manager on plant maintenance scheduling and activities, manages contractors working on site
• Manages all plant integration work; Performs or manages plant PLC programing and program changes, maintains all PLC, electrical and P&ID drawings in AutoCAD, PDF and printed formal. Provides diagnostic and troubleshooting support for maintenance and operations manufacturer’s support and lifecycle

HSE Responsibilities:

• Participates and ensures direct reports participate in plant-wide HSE, quality and productivity initiatives; Participates and ensures direct reports participate in HSE activities (i.e., Toolbox meetings, Plant audits, Incident investigations, Hazard IDs, etc.)
• Understands that safe work practices are a condition of employment and actively engages in leading indicators (including BBS, hazard IDs, safety work orders, near miss and first aid reporting, stop work, Is It Safe Tours, and JSA's) and assists in updating work procedures
• Routinely monitors environmental conditions in the plant and takes appropriate investigative & corrective actions and makes timely notifications as required. HSE
• Has responsibility to Lead, Communicate, Promote and Demonstrate Safety/Health (as #1 priority) and Environmental Stewardship/Compliance to Legal Requirements (including HSE Essentials
• Operating Permits and "Good Neighbor" policies), and proactively ensures systems and training are in place to operate effectively with order and good housekeeping; Ensures their team operates in compliance with all health, safety and environmental rules and regulations; Is a standing member of the Plant JHSC and ensures their team members participate on a rotating basis; Forklift certification preferred Additional duties assigned by Manager, as needed.
• Manages critical decisions and independent judgement for the department; Strong Work Ethics Ability to follow verbal and written instructions Manufacturing Plant environment

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Operations Maintenance, Technical School Degree in Automation, Instrumentation and Electromechanical

or

High School/GED and/or Equivalent Experience.

5 + years experience of managing direct reports

Experience using CMMS systems to plan, manage and analyze maintenance activities.

Solid understanding of technical aspects of mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical systems of heavy industrial equipment.

Procurement Software Knowledge Ability to use computer –

Advanced Excel Capability

Preferred. 5 + years of Automation, Instrumentation and Electromechanical Experience in a Manufacturing

Experience in plant safety systems such as Confined Space entry, Hot Work permitting and Lockout/Tagout of industrial equipment.

Basic skills in areas of industrial automation, instrumentation and electro mechanical equipment installation, troubleshooting, and repairs, PLC programming/automation activities, instrument calibration, running conduit, terminating wires.