Maintenance Manager

Multimatic•Butler, IN

50d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for instituting, reviewing, and rationalizing all preventive maintenance (PMs) to improve the PM program, reduce downtime, and lower overall maintenance costs. This role requires managing a multi-technical team across multiple shifts, ensuring open and effective communication within the department, with other departments, external contractors, and vendors. The manager will also lead corrective action and continuous improvement teams, approve associate timecards, and ensure accurate completion of attendance paperwork. Experience with PLC, Robotics, and strong mechanical aptitude are essential. The position involves assessing and developing associate training needs to enhance skills through internal coaching, external training, and other methods. The manager will effectively direct department associates, assess performance, provide evaluations, administer discipline, oversee vacation and overtime, and ensure all department/plant programs and activities comply with company procedures, policies, and labor laws. Responsibilities include scheduling and ensuring timely completion of facility and equipment work orders, coordinating weekly schedules to optimize skilled trade effectiveness, and planning, scheduling, and managing all shutdown-related activities. The role also involves establishing and maintaining a positive, service-oriented atmosphere and ensuring timely repair of production equipment. This includes constructing, maintaining, and testing equipment, machinery, and components, and ensuring repair parts are readily available. The manager will establish fiscal year budgetary needs, recommend capital improvements, and justify and implement these improvements. Driving productivity, safety, and process improvement opportunities is key. The role requires utilizing instructions, manuals, and forms to perform job functions and recommending improvements to internal systems. Monthly QOS reporting and identifying performance gaps to established goals are also required. Flexibility and willingness to assist with tasks as deemed necessary by the General Manager are expected.

Requirements

Four years' experience with applicable skilled trade, and/or journeyman experience, in a manufacturing environment.
Technical certificate and/or associate degree, with a minimum of 3-5 years supervisory/leadership experience.
Experience with PLC, Robotics and a strong mechanical aptitude.

Nice To Haves

Lean manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Institute, review and rationalize all PM’s and improve program to reduce downtime and improve overall maintenance costs.
Manage a multi-technical team among multiple shifts and ensure open and effective communication within the department, all other departments, external contractors, and vendors.
Manage and facilitate corrective action and continuous improvement teams.
Responsible for the daily approval of associate timecards and accurate completion of all attendance paperwork.
Assess, develop and institutionalize associate training needs to improve skills through internal coaching, training and/or external training.
Effectively manage/direct all department associates; assess performance and provide evaluations, administer discipline, oversee vacation, over time and all other department/plant programs and activities are in compliance with established company procedure/policy, following all applicable provisions of federal and state labor laws and guidelines.
Schedule and ensure timely completion of all facility and equipment work orders.
Coordinate weekly schedules to optimize skilled trade effectiveness when equipment is available.
Plan, schedule and manage all shut down related activities.
Establish and maintain a positive service oriented atmosphere and timely repair of production equipment.
Construct, maintain, and test equipment, machinery and components and ensure repair parts are readily available.
Establish fiscal year budgetary needs; recommend capital improvements, justify and implement improvements.
Drive productivity, safety and process improvement opportunities.
Utilize instructions, manuals, pre-established guidelines and forms to perform the functions of the job and recommend opportunities for improvement to internal systems.
QOS monthly reporting; identify performance gaps to established goals.
Be flexible, capable and willing to provide assistance to tasks as General Manager deems necessary.