Maintenance Manager

Position: Maintenance Manager

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

• •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

• •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

• •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, simplify and solve complex issues; focuses on identifying root causes to create solutions in a timely and decisive manner; reconciles conflicting and/or incomplete information to develop solutions
• •Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization's overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of Smurfit Westrock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks
• •Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding
• •Negotiation: Takes a lead role in negotiating issues with others in routine or non-complex situations; identifies and removes barriers to agreements; tries multiple strategies/actions to persuade others; discusses/considers alternatives, persuades others toward a specific course of action, and bargains for win-win solutions; provides input into future negotiation processes or strategies
• •Conflict Resolution: Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations; manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner

• •Microsoft Office - Excel, Outlook, Productivity Suite
• •JDE, PLC / DCS or similar CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

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