Maintenance Manager

Enviva•Hamlet, NC

14h

About The Position

The Enviva team is driven by our shared vision for a renewable energy future. We are a fast-growing, purpose-driven, global energy company specializing in delivering sustainable wood bioenergy solutions. We are the world’s largest producer of sustainable wood pellets, which provide a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading plant maintenance operations to drive equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and safety performance within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role partners closely with Corporate Reliability and Manufacturing teams to reduce downtime, eliminate recurring breakdowns, improve Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), and optimize maintenance costs, technician productivity, and asset utilization.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering or related discipline, with 5+ years of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast-changing manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination of 7+ years of experience/education/certifications.
Experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements.
Experience managing P.M. (Preventative Maintenance) practices.
Proven track record coaching, mentoring, and motivating and managing employees' skills development.
Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes.
Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

Applied working knowledge of time, condition, and predictive based maintenance processes.
Experience with TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Pillars - Autonomous and Effective Maintenance in a process environment.
Working knowledge of Analytical Process Mapping.

Responsibilities

Partners with Corporate Reliability team to implement maintenance methods and procedures designed to reduce downtime, supply chain losses, minimize operating costs, and optimize the utilization of technicians, materials, and assets.
Partners with manufacturing teams to deliver production targets and quality objectives.
Provides technical expertise to increase the number of zero breakdown machines, reduce breakdown re-occurrences, and increase Mean Time between Failure (MTBF).
Manager, coach, and hold the 15 to 17 mechanics and electricians accountable in performing their jobs safely and in accordance with defined maintenance procedures and job plans to achieve safety, quality, and production goals.
Direct your team and contractors to effectively deal with unexpected breakdowns in the production process to achieve production goals; doing everything yourself is not an option.
Demonstrate safety and maintenance procedures and equipment/tool operation to new employees and ensure team completes required monthly training and certifications.
Complete employee performance reviews
Reviewing work backlog & weekly work schedule and working with other Area Managers to ensure the right work is getting done effectively and efficiently.
Communicate detailed work schedules for the following day, as well as results from the previous day to other management groups. Understand gaps and opportunities that occurred and develop plans to address.
Lead a maintenance-turnover meeting, communicating to oncoming shift any safety incidents/issues, schedule updates, production performance, and any special instructions.
Communicate daily results, and top action items for the day to plant management during daily morning management meetings.
Review and ensure compliance with safe work practices, operational excellence management standards, standard operating procedures, standard Preventative Maintenance (PM) procedures, job plans, and standard repair procedures.
Work with Shift Leaders on any safety/environmental incidents that may have occurred, that involve the maintenance organization.
Own the operation, maintenance, and performance of common plant equipment such as air compressors, boilers, air conditioners, offices, etc.
Enter work requests for emergency breakdowns on common plant equipment and observed issues in the electronic asset management system
Ensure you have appropriate coverage from other shifts / areas to cover for any planned/unplanned time-off.
Owns and maintains the process of storing, organizing, and charging out spare maintenance parts.
Consistently partners with other team members to proactively manage maintenance costs and purchasing practices for driving value with effective and controlled spending.