Onsite Maintenance Manager

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About the role

  • Maintenance Manager overseeing production machinery and maintenance team in Kansas City. Responsible for budget, compliance, and strategic planning to ensure reliability and efficiency in operations.

Responsibilities

  • Associates in the Maintenance Leader position are responsible for leading the Maintenance team and keeping all Flexible Packaging machines and support equipment in proper operating conditions.
  • The position will support PPC’s ability to produce quality flexible packaging materials on time while assuring that Associates comply with all applicable safety and quality control procedures.
  • This role is responsible for building maintenance planning, reliability systems, and cost discipline that support stable production and long-term asset performance.
  • Maintenance Leader are expected to be “On call” 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
  • Expected to maintain all mechanical equipment and systems within the facility and grounds except those maintained by service agreements established with outside vendors.
  • Owns the maintenance budget, including annual budget planning, review of prior three years of maintenance spend and labor utilization, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost-control initiatives that reduce reactive maintenance, overtime, and emergency repairs while improving asset reliability and uptime.
  • Communicates with every shift to assign work duties and reviews actual performance from the previous 24 hours.
  • Emphasizes continuous learning by discussing root cause of mechanical failures or breakdowns, and reviews key procedures that impact costs and quality control.
  • Establishes a rolling 8-week maintenance planning and scheduling process, including weekly maintenance schedules and coordination with production planning to reduce reactive work.
  • Holds Associates accountable for compliance with all quality control, productivity, safety, housekeeping, GMP, SQF, and ISO standards, and communicates expectations and procedures.
  • Establishes a productive tempo on the plant floor by working with a steady and purposeful pace and presence in the plant.
  • Insists that the Maintenance team works proactively and with a sense of urgency to facilitate systematic and timely repairs to all manufacturing and support equipment.
  • Maintains a proactive “Preventative Maintenance Program” on all production and key non-production pieces of equipment.
  • Provides work instruction to the Maintenance Technicians for “Preventative Maintenance” based on set parameters for each piece of equipment.
  • Makes sure that Maintenance Technicians document key repairs and records the materials and parts needed for the repairs.
  • Maintains an inventory of key replacement parts, hardware, lubricants, and operating materials that may be specialized to the various production departments.
  • Drives strict compliance with all GMP and food safety policies that pertain to the maintenance functions within the facility.
  • Trains, guides, and assists Associates in the successful execution of their roles.
  • Coordinates training of new Associates by assigning a qualified trainer, and monitoring the timely completion and documentation of the training program.
  • Maintains a safe and secure workplace, responsible for the mechanical operation of the plant and its contents.
  • Assumes the role of “Acting Plant Manager” during the off-shifts and any time the Plant Manager is not on the premises.
  • Monitors and enforces Associates’ breaks for both rule compliance and productivity. Ideally coordinates breaks in each department to keep machines running as much time as possible.
  • Administers progressive disciplinary procedures as required.
  • Ensures accuracy of payroll records, and provides performance evaluations and pay reviews for Associates in a timely and objective manner.
  • Attends and participates in weekly Production Leadership Meetings.
  • Ensures that all responsibilities and functions performed are in accordance with company procedures as set forth in the Personnel Handbook.
  • Participates in Safety programs.
  • Supports the company emphasis on teamwork and cooperation to achieve our goals by performing other duties as assigned including periodic cleanup issues.
  • Covers time for Maintenance Technicians for vacation and sick days.
  • Generates improvement ideas and embraces improvement projects to better the business.
  • Implements maintenance KPIs and reporting related to uptime, downtime, PM compliance, maintenance cost, and reliability performance.
  • Works cross-functionally with Production, Quality, Planning, and CI to improve equipment reliability, planned downtime execution, and production readiness.
  • Collaborates with maintenance and operations leadership at the Turner facility to align maintenance standards, preventative maintenance programs, spare-parts strategy, and reliability practices in support of a unified PPC Kansas City maintenance system.

Requirements

  • Previous flexographic printing experience and mechanical aptitude/experience is highly preferred.
  • Previous supervisory/management/leadership experience in an industrial production environment with the related safety training is preferred.
  • Previous machining, welding, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic experience is highly preferred.
  • Knowledge of Windows computing programs and experience with business operating systems a must with some degree of proficiency required.
  • Able to read and understand written instructions and provide verbal direction to successfully complete procedures and required tasks.
  • Capable of performing mathematical calculations, and properly using tape measures and micrometers.
  • Flexibility in work assignments and priorities is required to address the dynamic needs of our customers and shifts in production requirements.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills required, and proven experience with effective teams and continuous improvement methods strongly preferred.
  • Previous budget management and fiscal year budget planning skills are preferred.

Job title

Maintenance Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$129,000 - $162,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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