Manager, Maintenance, Windsor Locks

Moventas Wind Ltd; Windsor, Northern (CT, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Suominen Corporation in Windsor Locks, CT, is seeking a dynamic Manager, Maintenance to oversee preventative and corrective maintenance across the plant, ensuring safe, reliable operations in line with quality standards and regulatory requirements.

The role leads a maintenance team of mechanical and electrical technicians, manages CMMS work orders, and coordinates with production and external contractors to optimize OEE and downtime, while controlling costs and driving continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working within a manufacturing environment and maintenance.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Required to work in a manufacturing environment.
• Must be flexible to work weekends and evenings if needed
• Must be able stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch. Must be able to lift and/or move 10 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Manages the work and activities of maintenance staff and external resources within a plant so that repair and service activities are completed according to quality standards, accurately, safely, and on-time.
• Manages, plans, prioritizes, and schedules maintenance activities to optimize OEE, rectify breakdowns and malfunctions and minimize business disruptions.
• Ensures assets are maintained to lower total cost and that capital is used efficiently; identifies risks and mitigates exposure.
• Controls maintenance costs according to budget and updates cost forecasts.
• Develops and implements repair and maintenance procedures; monitors cost-effectiveness and resource allocation.
• Ensures availability of spare parts and resources.
• Conducts breakdown analysis and RCA for downtime; implements corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Evaluates, selects, and manages relationships with external contractors to improve efficiency and reduce costs; sets standards and audits of repairs.
• Manages plant-wide CMMS including history, planning, scheduling, and preventive/predictive maintenance tasks.
• Oversees autonomous maintenance program with production manager.
• Supervises maintenance team across mechanical and electrical technicians; collaborates with logistics and QA.
• Supports sustain & improve projects and participates in larger investments affecting the plant.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing

Maintenance

Communication

SAP

Excel

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Are you enthusiastic about working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment? Are you driven by a strong safety and quality culture? Do you have excellent Maintenance Manufacturing. leadership skills, and enjoy working within a diverse team?

Suominen is looking to hire a dynamic Manager, Maintenance to manage preventative and corrective maintenance and repair activities so that the plant´s buildings, facilities, production lines and equipment operate reliably and according to stringent safety and quality standards of Suominen, local codes, laws, and regulations.

You may be our next Manager, Maintenance, to be located at our Windsor Locks, CT location.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Manages the work and activities of maintenance staff and external resources within a plant so that repair and service activities are completed according to quality standards, accurately, safely, and on-time.
• Manages, plans, prioritizes, and schedules maintenance activities (e.g. preventive and reactive maintenance, shutdowns, or emergency repairs) to optimize OEE, rectify breakdowns and malfunctions and minimize business disruptions.
• Ensures that the assets are maintained in a manner that lowers total cost, and capital is effectively used and managed. Identifies risks concerning critical spares and BCP and ensures action plans are in place to mitigate risk and exposure.
• Manages and controls maintenance costs according to budget. Updates maintenance cost forecast
• Develops and implements repair and maintenance procedures and manages maintenance system information; monitors the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources, prioritizes spending, and achieves timeliness, reliability, and safety standards.
• Ensure availability of spare parts and resources
• Conducts Breakdown analysis and root cause analysis (RCA) for repeated and longer downtime or failure of an asset. Implements corrective actions and looks for continuous improvement activities to reduce downtime and extend the life of key assets.
• Evaluates, selects, and manages relationships with external contractors to increase efficiencies and minimize costs and ensures the organization receives satisfactory standards of service. Develops and sets repair standards, specifications, and audits / inspections of repaired equipment or services.
• Manage the plant wide work order computer system – CMMS. E.g. equipment history, work order planning, scheduling, and preventative maintenance tasks as well as predictive maintenance tasks all documented within the CMMS program utilized by the entire plant.
• Manage autonomous maintenance program together with production manager
• Supervises a Maintenance team made up of Mechanical and Electrical (Automation) Technicians, working with all business lines, logistics, and QA.
• Manage sustain & improve projects locally. Participates actively on larger investment projects affecting the plant.

This position reports to the Director, Plant, Windsor Locks.

We offer an interesting role in a multicultural environment, support of a motivated and professional team and possibility to grow and develop skills.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have

• 5+ years of experience working within a manufacturing environment and maintenance.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Required to work in a manufacturing environment.
• Must be flexible to work weekends and evenings if needed
• Must be able stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch. Must be able to lift and/or move 10 lbs.

What we need from you

• Leadership
• Manufacturing
• Maintenance
• SAP
• Excel

Suominenmanufactures nonwovens as roll goods for wipes and other applications. Our vision is to be the frontrunner for nonwovens innovation and sustainability. The end products made of Suominen’s nonwovens are present in people’s daily life worldwide. Suominen’s net sales in 2024 wereEUR 462.3 millionand we have over 700 professionals working inEuropeand in theAmericas. Suominen’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Read more atwww.suominen.fi.

Suominen Corporation

Suominenmanufactures nonwovens as roll goods for wipes and other applications. Our vision is to be the frontrunner for nonwovens innovation and sustainability. The end products made of Suominen’s nonwovens are present in people’s daily life worldwide. Suominen’s net sales in 2024 wereEUR 462.3 millionand we have over 700 professionals working inEuropeand in theAmericas. Suominen’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Read more atwww.suominen.fi.

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