Maintenance Manager

Divert•Plymouth, IN

17d

About The Position

Divert is a circular economy company working to prevent food waste through nationwide infrastructure and technology. The Maintenance Manager oversees day-to-day and strategic technical programs at Divert’s Plymouth facility, under the direction of the Director of Maintenance & Reliability and Plant Manager. The facility receives unsold food, analyzes its contents, separates packaging from organics, and processes the organics; some Divert facilities also use anaerobic digestion to produce renewable natural gas. This is a safety-sensitive role requiring diligence and responsibility for personal and workplace safety. The Maintenance Manager supports plant culture and safe operating practices while managing maintenance personnel, programs, equipment reliability, contractors, and daily maintenance operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or associate degree in mechanical, maintenance, or another related industrial field from an accredited program; equivalent experience in maintenance management, planning and scheduling, and preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance may be considered.
Five to eight years of maintenance or operations experience in industrial environments such as manufacturing, energy, chemical, or wastewater treatment, including leadership and management.
Experience maintaining and troubleshooting technical and operational systems, including distributed control systems and PLCs.
Hands-on experience and knowledge working with large industrial equipment such as motors, pumps, gearboxes, agitators, large rotating equipment, screw conveyors, chain and belt conveyors, screw presses, and hammermills.
Experience with pneumatic control valves and actuators.
Strong leadership, independent thinking, organizational and planning abilities, analytical skills, and problem-solving skills.
Well-versed in managing a CMMS for equipment maintenance execution; CMMS experience is required.
Ability to coach, train, and develop maintenance personnel.
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication.
Excellent computer competence, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, and CMMS software.
Ability to handle several priorities at one time.

Nice To Haves

CMRP certification, or understanding and experience with the associated practices and procedures.

Responsibilities

Maintain Divert’s plant culture through processes that support empowerment and structured independence.
Promote a safe work environment through culture, training, and reinforcement of best practices.
Ensure established operating discipline is consistently maintained.
Manage and execute the plant technical training program, including technician onboarding covering safety, CMMS use, proactive and predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance completion, and troubleshooting.
Develop, coach, and mentor technicians as their technical skills grow.
Develop procedures and plans for major maintenance jobs, including screw conveyor overhauls, screw press screen changes, tank inspections, and facility equipment maintenance.
Manage maintenance and reliability processes, including the preventive maintenance program, spare parts inventory, planning and scheduling, CMMS data entry and analysis, budget development, lubrication, and condition-based maintenance.
Lead root-cause investigations of equipment failures and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
Research parts and service suppliers, investigate lead times and costs, and ensure appropriate spare parts are on hand and easy to identify.
Generate and share weekly and monthly asset-utilization performance reports, using KPIs to guide resource allocation.
Direct daily maintenance operations, including work planning, scheduling, assignment, and completion review, in alignment with plant needs.
Manage contractors performing plant repairs, maintenance, and improvements.
Write purchase orders and hold vendors accountable to standards defined in scopes of work for third-party and contractor work.