Maintenance and Reliability Site Leader
About The Position
The Maintenance and Reliability Site Leader owns maintenance and reliability and associated processes for DuPont’s Yerkes Site in Tonawanda, New York. Yerkes is a multi-business-unit manufacturing site spanning more than 95 acres, supporting Corian® and Tedlar® manufacturing, with approximately 500 employees and a Maintenance organization of approximately 77 people. The role provides functional direction to support roles and is accountable for the safety, productivity, quality, and overall effectiveness of the maintenance workforce. The Site Leader leads the facility maintenance strategy and implementation of Maintenance Work Management Processes, manages functional and administrative goals, establishes and manages budgets aligned with business needs, and develops future talent. The role advances proactive maintenance, asset management, and reliability through preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs, asset health management, maintenance strategies, and continuous improvement. It also oversees reliability performance and metrics, work-process effectiveness, cost management, staffing, project resourcing, employee development, and alignment of maintenance services with business, area, and site needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
- 7–10 years of manufacturing or related experience.
- Prior maintenance experience with a large multi-business campus or large maintenance team.
- Experience with Process Safety Management in a high-hazard process.
- Technical understanding of all unit operational processes.
- Knowledge of appropriate standards, protocols, and systems.
- Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Functional understanding of Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS).
- Strong interpersonal and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to influence managers, peers, and the maintenance team.
- Effective risk management and mitigation skills.
- Verbal and written communication, planning, and organizing skills.
- Strong organization and time-management skills, including prioritization, scheduling, and optimizing workforce skills and resources.
- Root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Safety, quality, and environmental auditing skills.
- Leadership skills, including coaching and mentoring.
- Proven understanding of unit Maintenance Work Management Processes.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience working with a union workforce.
- CMRP or CRL qualifications.
- Experience with SAP.
Responsibilities
- Lead the organization through the journey of its Proactive Maintenance objectives.
- Collaborate with other resources and work processes to achieve shared asset management.
- Deliver results in safety, reliability, and maintenance cost optimization.
- Maintain discipline in standard work to generate data for MRO improvement, preventive maintenance optimization, and strategic planning.
- Provide functional direction to unit Maintenance Activity Coordinators, planners, schedulers, coordinators, and maintenance and reliability engineers.
- Be accountable for workforce safety, productivity, quality, and overall effectiveness.
- Leverage the Global Maintenance Work Process and its sub-processes across the plant.
- Lead the site's maintenance and reliability strategy, including preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs, asset health management, equipment maintenance strategies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support and champion the advancement of ultrasound, infrared, and vibration programs.
- Oversee reliability performance, maintenance effectiveness, reliability metrics and reviews, deep drills, and improvement plans to enhance asset performance and reduce risk.
- Apply the Maintain Facility Work Process in alignment with business needs, implement the Maintenance Work Management Process at the locally required value-adding level, and ensure effective linkages with other processes.
- Ensure maintenance procedures include hazard assessments covering safety, health, and environmental considerations and control measures to prevent contact or exposure.
- Manage functional and administrative goals and establish a budget consistent with business needs; carry out cost management.
- Ensure proper unit maintenance staffing levels and resource reliability and maintenance representatives for capital and maintenance-improvement projects.
- Manage competency profiles, employee development, deployment, and compensation within the role's span of control.
- Develop Maintenance Engineers for future project, technical, and leadership roles.
- Drive the development of the desired culture and behaviors.
- Analyze and audit work-process results and oversee unit maintenance reliability metrics.
- Communicate expectations to unit maintenance employees through the site vision, Facility Maintenance Strategy, goals, and common behaviors.
- Coordinate or sponsor teams to leverage resources in a timely way for significant opportunities.
- Require use of Management of Change for value-adding improvements.
- Measure individual performance against work-process expectations and effective technology utilization.
- Ensure delivery of agreed services required by the business, area, or site, and optimize interfaces with other work processes.
- Actively participate in Maintenance Leadership teams within the business or site.
- Ensure delivery of best-in-class services to businesses.
Benefits
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
