Maintenance Lead

Mars

About The Position

Maintenance Lead - Revised Purpose of Role: A Maintenance Lead’s role is to effectively and efficiently communicate, facilitate, co-ordinate, and prioritize all maintenance activities within their area. This position requires working closely with other supply groups particularly Quality Control and Operations to insure consistent product quality, productivity and safety. The Maintenance Lead will make assignments and monitor progress, co-ordinate training, schedule, and develop associates in their area of responsibility. The Maintenance Lead is responsible for developing and implementing continuous improvement activities that address safety, quality, and efficiency. The maintenance lead is responsible for detailed planning of planned work in their area. The maintenance lead will partner with production to schedule jobs. Leads must have in-depth knowledge of the entire maintenance area and be recognized as an expert in multiple technologies. The Maintenance Lead role requires strong leadership, communication, interpersonal and team building skills to support site objectives.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent; in-house training is required.
Must meet all job specific education requirements as deemed necessary
3+ years of manufacturing experience in technical capacity in maintenance controls, electrical or mechanical.
BS in engineering or sciences could be substituted for work experience.
General skills and basic mechanical and/or electrical aptitude
Able to operate all systems in area being led
Responsible for co-ordination and effectiveness of start-ups, transitions, and shutdowns
Demonstrates technical/analytical skills by effectively performing troubleshooting and repair/replace on modules of expertise
Knowledge of the line or area goals and performance
Proficient at analyzing information concerning module of expertise
Understands performance metrics (ATS, TRS, waste, etc.)
Understands direct impact on internal and external customers
Ability to troubleshoot at the system level on operational basis.
Must have a good understanding of interfacing with PLC's, scales and display devices.
Basic experience in selecting and installation process instrumentation.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Leading Effective Teams
Communication Skills
Interpersonal/ Team Working Skills
Functional Technical Knowledge
Problem Solving

Nice To Haves

Associate Degree or equivalent training.
1+ years management experience in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Train technicians to interpret data (trend data, identify root cause, implement solution).
Train technicians to formulate actions to address non-conformance issues.
Analyze and develop permanent solutions to prevent chronic or significant quality issues.
In-depth knowledge of quality systems and all work instructions for area. Provide input for improvements/changes to work instructions.
Oversee of quality or product conformance issues to ensure corrective/preventative actions are implemented and completed.
Provide project planning and estimate moderately complex jobs.
Train technicians on safe operating procedures.
Provide input to any investigation for area of responsibility.
Provide input as appropriate regarding safety.
Ensure working conditions are Normal and enforce safety requirements.
Provide input to project safety reviews (SSEPR) on systems in area.
Use and follow all engineering standards when implementing projects.
Drive continuous improvement by developing and implementing systems that optimize all phases of the manufacturing process and support key business objectives (waste, labor, reliability, ATS, line capacity, etc.).
Provide input to feasibility and change management requests.
Resource to other sites and across areas.
Modify and/or develop Wonderware applications to support engineering projects.
Effectively communicates and schedule PMs and improvements to area.
Identify, report and help any potential product contamination issue.
Maintains clean work environment including 5S adherence and follow through to ensure completion of action plans to address sources of contamination.
Support role in cleaning and sanitation of area.
Jointly agree, with the Manager, job and development expectations for associates by area/job
Communicate job and development expectations to associates
Provide performance coaching and feedback to associates on a regular basis
Involved with hiring decisions along with Manager
Team Engagement including facilitation of team building discussions
Provide supplemental input for associates’ performance reviews
Responsible for supporting changeover (planning, execution, ramp up to standard rate).
Responsible for insuring complete and current troubleshooting documentation on equipment within area of responsibility.
Lead and safely execute start-up and shutdown activities.
Maintenance co-ordinator role: Provides non-exempt leadership to maintenance area ensure efficient logistics and use of resources throughout the entire shop floor process (full-time and contractor manpower).
Prioritizes all of the maintenance activities such as unplanned work orders, continuous improvement activities, and operational preventative maintenance programs.
Monitor CMMS accuracy for their crew.
Demonstrated ability to resolve non-routine issues at root cause and incorporate into preventive actions.
Detailed knowledge of area including process flow, rates, critical control points, metrics (ATS, TRS, costs).
Ability to troubleshoot routine and non-routine issues and direct maintenance team resources towards achieving safe, timely, cost efficient solutions.
Develop best practices for area and insure best practices are followed.
Lead or participate in continuous improvement efforts.
Effective shift communications. Attends and leads on maintenance issues in shift overlaps, quality reviews, and daily meetings as required.
Ability to complete root cause failure analysis on issues involving reliability, product/packaging defects, downtime and slow time.
Effectively works and communicates with all departments (scheduling, engineering, R&D, IE, logistics, operations, etc.).