Maintenance and Engineering Manager

Lubrizol•Wilmington, MA

13d•$125,000 - $152,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com . We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. Join Our Thriving Team as an Engineering and Maintenance Manager! Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team. What You'll Do: In collaboration with Plant Manager, The Engineering and Maintenance Manager leads both the improvement engineering functions and the day-to-day maintenance operations in the Wilmington facility. The role provides continuity between production, quality, logistics, scheduling, utility and maintenance areas by leading his teams to continuously make process improvements while improving the day to day operations of the facility. The role is also responsible for maintaining the entire facility and is the primary contact of all vendors outside of the building including the building owner

Requirements

BS in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited college/university
Minimum 5 years of maintenance and engineering experience in plant operations
Knowledge and experience in chemical manufacturing processes
Experience in facility management
Experienced leader
Excellent interpersonal, motivational and organizational skills.
Vision correctable to 20/20.
Climbing stairs
Hearing correctable to unamplified human voice.
Manual dexterity: excellent
Ability to complete and deliver oral/written reports.
Ability to meet safety, regulatory, and health guidelines without assistance.
Continuous mental/visual concentration.

Responsibilities

Lead and exemplify a culture where ‘safety is a core value’ is a true belief and ensure safety accountability across the organization.
Provide leadership for operational excellence programs, including continuous improvement, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action.
Provide leadership and direction to the plant maintenance and project engineering teams
Provide leadership in a sustainable preventative/predictive maintenance and reliability improvement programs
Oversee talent management and employee development and promote constructive employee relations.
Work closely with manufacturing to prioritize maintenance work to meet production demand
Lead planners/schedules in development of a daily maintenance schedule to meet production demands while minimizing production down time
Responsible for repair and maintenance of machines, tools, and equipment in the manufacturing operations
Oversee maintenance of the entire facility, including but not limited to, HVAC systems, plant utilities and operations.
Ensure best type of repairs and the most cost-effective means of completing a maintenance repair are used
Create and maintain critical spares stores inventory
Work closely with the Plant Manager to support development of the plant project list and the annual capital plan to ensure the highest priority projects are being worked on
Evaluate engineering requests and assign approved requests to internal project engineers or obtain necessary engineering resources to complete projects
Ensure most effective technology and best engineering practices are used to complete improvement projects so that they meet the intent of the project while also meeting all regulatory, corporate and plant standards
Oversee and coordinate regular plant shutdowns with production and scheduling
Develop and oversee and responsible for the facility, maintenance and capital budgets.
Provide technical and engineering support for efficient troubleshooting and problem-solving activities to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime
Participate in the creation and safe execution of the annual capital plan.
Assist with external, internal, plant wide and departmental HSES and Quality assessments and audits.
Report all accidents, injuries, spills, releases, near misses and suggestions immediately to the HSES, HR and/or Plant Manager.