Maintenance Manager - Nights

Mars•Kansas City, MO

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Mars Petcare is seeking a Maintenance Shift Manager for their Nutro business at a manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Mo. This is a full-time role responsible for leading a maintenance team to ensure plant equipment is properly maintained by skilled technicians. The manager will serve as a technical resource, ensuring the team consistently meets or exceeds safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, financial, and product supply goals. The role involves eliminating equipment failure causes, leading repair and maintenance activities, providing technical support, and executing plant-specific maintenance strategies to achieve key performance goals.

Requirements

Associates degree in a technical related discipline, or greater than 10 years of experience in a technical-related field of work.
5+ years recent experience in a progressive technical leadership capacity working in a manufacturing/industrial environment.
Experience with operating within a formalized Continuous Improvement Environment (TPM, Lean Manufacturing).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a technical discipline.

Responsibilities

Supervise a maintenance team, including equipment breakdown repair, preventative maintenance and associated systems, and management and control of maintenance costs.
Ensure that maintenance assignments are carried out in an efficient and safe manner.
Troubleshoot plant and equipment.
Supervise maintenance staff directly.
Set up, maintain, and be responsible for PM systems, inspection routines, inventory control, job scheduling, staff training, and identification of plant improvement plans, including efficiency and yield.
Control maintenance expenditure in a cost-effective way according to the site budget for site repairs, resources, direct labor, and overtime.
Manage projects aimed at asset improvement/utilization, safety, and equipment reliability, utilizing process and project engineering skill sets.
Identify and pursue continuous improvement opportunities to reduce manufacturing costs in the production areas.
Lead the plant PM (Planned Maintenance) function in their respective department by the development and management of PM implementation plans.
Manage overhaul, modernizing, and building of a diverse range of machinery and parts to ensure cost-effective modifications and improvements.
Monitor and assist in the development of the annual capital project forecast, maintenance and repair budgets, and monitor work to ensure budgets are met.