Maintenance Manager

Summary: As the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for the performance of the plant maintenance and reliability team focusing on the key metrics of safety, quality of work, implementation and execution of reliability-centered maintenance elements, cost control, and employee development. In this position, you will be responsible for embedding all required elements of reliability-centered maintenance focusing on maintenance planning, schedule, and execution, along with the core principles of route-based preventative maintenance (PM) work plans, route-based lubrication work plans, precision alignment of high-speed rotating equipment, and deploying predictive maintenance (PdM) technologies focusing on vibration analysis of high-speed rotating equipment, IR scanning of electrical gear, and tribology. Success in the role includes ensuring a safe workplace, ownership and engagement by the maintenance team, cost management against a defined R&M budget, and maintenance execution to drive improvements in plant reliability and uptime.

You will also maintain technical skills and knowledge at a state-of-the-art level while continuing to develop people management skills. As the Maintenance Manager, you will possess solid skills in communication (verbal and written) and will be seen as a developing leader within the plant leadership team. The Maintenance Manager works with integrity and upholds the values of the organization.

In this position, you will work with other managers, maintenance teams, and the engineering team to achieve plant and company objectives. You will be responsible for the direct management of the maintenance and reliability team, and will visit other Green Plains Bio-Refineries as necessary and partner with other location teammates. You will represent the plant in benchmarking exercises across the fleet. This role is a critical link with groups outside the plant to drive safety, quality of craftsmanship, and maintenance excellence.

As the Maintenance Manager, you will report to the Plant Manager and are a key member of the Plant Management Team. You will provide technical supervision and instructions to the skill crafts within the maintenance team. This position has the freedom to operate, explore, and engage in creative solutions within the constraints of RCM, the needs of the business, and the plant operating in a safe and efficient manner.

• •Accountable for the safety performance of the maintenance team. This includes ensuring that all plant safety policies and procedures are followed; daily safety-related expectations are met, and all safety issues are clearly communicated and remediated as timely as possible. Support the safety representative, participating in the department and plant safety committees, and team safety meetings are required at the start of each work day.
• •Accountable for implementing and embedding all defined RCM principles to drive plant reliability and uptime through a proactive maintenance approach.
• •Maintenance planning and scheduling one week out
• •Daily maintenance WO review and planning/scheduling meeting with the operations manager, maintenance planner, and CMMS
• •Develop and embed preventative maintenance and Predictive maintenance elements as ways of working for the maintenance department
• •Track, record, and report KPIs monthly including but not limited to PM attainment, % work order complete, # of service requests written, work order backlog (man-hours)
• •Exceute RCA for unplanned equipment failures based on defined triggers
• •Accountable for the performance, management, and personnel development of your department. This includes active involvement in the technical training and development of the craftsmen to ensure knowledge progression is not compromised. Responsible for developing clearly defined goals and objectives for the area through involvement of the area leadership.