Manager, Maintenance and Engineering

Hollingsworth & Vose•Hawkinsville, GA

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About The Position

Provides leadership for plant maintenance, reliability, facilities, and capital engineering to support safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Leads the maintenance and facilities teams, develops asset-management strategies, and ensures annual operating and capital plans are achieved.

Requirements

Minimum seven years of maintenance, engineering, or reliability experience in a continuous-process industrial environment, including leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience with maintenance planning and scheduling, reliability improvement, capital projects, root cause analysis, and budget management.
Strong safety leadership, project management, problem-solving, and financial-management skills.
Working knowledge of CMMS, preventive and predictive maintenance, RCFA, RCM, critical-spares management, and maintenance performance metrics.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage contractors, balance multiple priorities, and meet cost and schedule commitments.
Ability to work in an industrial manufacturing environment, including heat, humidity, noise, elevated areas, and confined spaces, while using required PPE.
Ability to stand, walk, climb ladders, bend, reach, and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
Pulp and paper or comparable process-industry experience preferred.
Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, and process-control systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead maintenance, reliability, facilities, and capital engineering programs in alignment with plant priorities.
Establish and enforce safe work practices for employees and contractors, including electrical, mechanical, controls, installation, repair, and maintenance activities.
Partner with the Site EH&S Manager to improve safety and environmental performance and maintain applicable regulatory compliance.
Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance strategies that improve equipment availability and reduce unplanned downtime.
Lead maintenance planning and scheduling, shutdown preparation, work prioritization, and coordination with Operations.
Use CMMS data and maintenance KPIs to monitor PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog, downtime, labor utilization, and maintenance cost.
Lead root cause failure analysis and corrective actions for recurring equipment failures and significant downtime events.
Manage the maintenance budget, contractor costs, spare-parts strategy, and other resources within the annual operating plan.
Ensure critical assets have effective maintenance plans, job plans, drawings, documentation, and appropriate spare-parts coverage.
Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts, including Lean, Kaizen, waste reduction, equipment optimization, and cost-saving initiatives.
Identify, prioritize, and implement reliability and process improvements using performance data and cross-functional problem solving.
Lead capital projects from scope development and justification through design, installation, commissioning, and closeout.
Provide technical leadership for electrical, instrumentation, controls, and mechanical systems, including new equipment installations.
Develop team capability through clear expectations, coaching, training plans, competency assessment, and performance management.
Build strong partnerships with Operations, EH&S, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to support plant goals.
Perform other related duties as assigned.