Senior Manager, Maintenance

Bridgestone Americas•Des Moines, IA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Maintenance is a key plant leadership role at Bridgestone’s automated Des Moines, Iowa tire manufacturing facility, which produces radial and bias agricultural tires around the clock. This onsite, full-time position designs, plans, and implements maintenance programs to optimize the availability and productivity of manufacturing facilities and equipment. It addresses complex problems requiring investigation and analysis and calls for influencing teammates and executive leadership. The role directs, plans, controls, staffs, and organizes maintenance, powerhouse, and factory storeroom activities to achieve safety, cost, production, and quality objectives, while coordinating with other production and staff departments. It is also responsible for equipment, buildings, support staff, internal and external communication, staff motivation, and long-range strategic planning. The position requires being onsite as needs arise and being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Full relocation assistance is offered for the right candidate. The Senior Manager develops and directs maintenance and powerhouse budgets, including annual expense budgets exceeding $30 million, and manages a team of 10 staff and 106 hourly teammates. The role may assume the plant engineer’s duties in their absence. Success depends on strategic planning and the ability to make decisions with both short- and long-range implications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or technically related field, plus at least 8 years of experience in engineering or maintenance, including at least 5 years of management or leadership experience in an engineering or maintenance department; or a master’s degree, plus at least 6 years of experience in engineering or maintenance, including at least 5 years of management or leadership experience in an engineering or maintenance department.
Ability to be onsite as needs arise and to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Ability to handle stressful situations and make decisions with long- and short-range implications.
Ability to manage maintenance and powerhouse expense budgets exceeding $30 million annually.
Ability to direct and develop a team of staff and hourly teammates.

Nice To Haves

At least 14 years of experience in maintenance or engineering, including at least 5 years as a manager or supervisor in maintenance or engineering departments.
Management experience in a union environment.

Responsibilities

Promote a safe and environmentally sound work environment by raising safety awareness, initiating and monitoring safety programs, ensuring safety meetings, investigating accidents and safety violations, reporting results, and developing improvement plans.
Ensure environmental compliance for maintenance work and support the environmental engineer as needed.
Educate and develop personnel in local standard practices and Bridgestone Maintenance Standard QA sensor and Accuracy Control modules.
Work with production areas to reduce waste, promote good housekeeping, and develop and implement continuous improvement plans.
Develop maintenance and powerhouse budgets and direct activities in line with plant policy, budget, waste, scrap, downtime, and frequency objectives.
Monitor and analyze department and plant performance, address adverse trends, obtain resources, and establish cost-reduction programs.
Establish plans and control points to meet Bridgestone Maintenance Standard requirements; communicate objectives and coordinate with production, engineering, maintenance, and service departments.
Direct internal and external resources to correct deficiencies and initiate root-cause countermeasures to reduce N.O.T.; report and monitor results.
Refine and optimize operations and plan for growth, staffing, and equipment requirements to assure continuity of operation.
Manage craftsmen and contractors; select, develop, counsel, teach, coach, and motivate teammates; identify organizational development needs; and conduct mid-term and annual performance evaluations.
Recommend promotions and increases, maintain fair and equitable practices, and address discriminatory situations in accordance with company policies.
Assume the plant engineer’s duties in their absence.
Perform other duties as assigned.