Maintenance Assistant Manager

ECOPLASTIC AMERICA CORP•Ellabell, GA

41d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Assistant Manager oversees equipment maintenance and preventive actions, including planning work, providing instructions, monitoring progress, and analyzing results. The role helps ensure stable facility operations by standardizing work processes, managing paint line conditions, and overseeing facility maintenance. It also manages spare parts and materials to support the maintenance budget and improves facility efficiency through upgrades, replacements, and structural modifications. The role analyzes facility component defects and handles related documentation, external affairs, and audit work. The position oversees shop facilities and equipment, including delivery systems, electrical and utility infrastructure, Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs), conveyors, exhaust systems, bake ovens, Central Water Systems (CWS), lighting, supplies, and inspection equipment. It analyzes equipment maintenance downtime and implements countermeasures; manages preventive, predictive, regular, and post-preservation maintenance standards and performance; and oversees daily, monthly, and annual inspection logs and failure analysis. Additional responsibilities include spare-parts inventory and discontinued-parts planning; investigating equipment failures, particularly those affecting operational quality; setting equipment grades; managing MTBF and MTTR indicators; maintaining equipment-specific failure records and analyzing repair histories; managing equipment purchase, improvement, disposal, and sale procedures and assets; establishing restart standards after production shutdowns; and analyzing hydraulic oil quality and managing oil quality and viscosity.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in maintenance management.
Strong background in manufacturing or automotive parts production.
Strong leadership and team management skills.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Problem-solving skills to analyze complex technical issues.
Knowledge of safety regulations and commitment to creating a safe working environment.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field.

Responsibilities

Plan equipment maintenance and preventive actions, provide work instructions, monitor progress, and perform analysis.
Standardize work processes, manage paint line conditions, and oversee facility maintenance to support stable operations.
Manage spare parts and materials in support of the maintenance budget.
Improve facility efficiency through upgrades, replacements, and structural modifications.
Analyze defects in facility components and identify ways to reduce them.
Handle documentation, external affairs, and audit-related work associated with maintenance activities.
Oversee shop facilities and equipment, including delivery systems, electrical and utility infrastructure, RTOs, conveyors, exhaust systems, bake ovens, CWS, lighting, supplies, and inspection equipment.
Analyze causes of equipment maintenance downtime and implement countermeasures.
Manage preventive, predictive, regular, and post-preservation maintenance standards and production equipment performance.
Oversee daily, monthly, and annual equipment inspection logs; analyze major failure causes and implement countermeasures.
Manage spare-parts receipts and issues, safety inventory, and strategies for discontinued parts.
Identify and address equipment failure causes, especially failures that create operational quality issues.
Implement grade management for facility equipment, including injection molding machines, robots, coolers, and conveyors.
Manage Facility Conservation Indicators, including MTBF and MTTR.
Maintain equipment-specific failure records and conduct repair-history analysis.
Manage procedures and assets related to equipment purchase, improvement, disposal, and sale.
Plan and establish standards for restarting production after shutdowns and manage related countermeasures.
Conduct hydraulic oil quality analysis and ensure proper oil quality and viscosity management for facility equipment.