Senior Manager, Maintenance

Bridgestone•Des Moines, IA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Maintenance is a key leadership role at Bridgestone’s automated Des Moines, Iowa tire manufacturing plant, which produces radial and bias agricultural tires around the clock. The role designs, plans, and implements maintenance programs to improve equipment and facility availability and productivity. It addresses complex problems requiring investigation and analysis and regularly communicates with and influences executive leadership and other stakeholders. The position directs, plans, controls, staffs, and organizes maintenance, powerhouse, and factory storeroom activities to achieve safety, cost, production, and quality objectives. It coordinates with production and staff departments, manages equipment, buildings, support staff, and internal and external communication, and leads motivation and long-range strategic planning for the maintenance areas. The role is onsite and full-time, with a requirement to be onsite as operational needs arise. The incumbent is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Full relocation assistance is offered for the right candidate.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a technically related field and at least 8 years of engineering or maintenance experience, including at least 5 years of management or leadership experience in an engineering or maintenance department; or a master’s degree and at least 6 years of engineering or maintenance experience, including at least 5 years of management or leadership experience in an engineering or maintenance department.
Ability to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, handle stressful situations, and make decisions with both short- and long-range implications.
Ability to investigate and analyze complex problems.
Ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches and communicate with and influence executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Promote safety awareness; initiate and monitor safety programs; ensure safety meetings are conducted; investigate accidents and safety violations involving maintenance, powerhouse, contractors, and production; report results and develop improvement plans.
Ensure environmental compliance for maintenance tasks and support the environmental engineer as needed.
Educate and develop personnel in local standard practices and the BSJ 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 accordance with plant policies and objectives for budget, waste, scrap, downtime, and frequency.
Monitor and analyze department and plant performance, address adverse trends and problem areas, obtain and develop resources, and establish cost-reduction programs.
Establish plans and control points to meet BSJ Maintenance Standard requirements; communicate objectives and coordinate with production, engineering, maintenance, and service departments.
Direct internal and external resources to correct deficiencies and initiate, report, and monitor root-cause countermeasures to reduce N.O.T.
Refine and optimize existing operations and plan for growth, manpower, and equipment requirements.
Manage craftsmen and contractors; select and develop teammates; identify organizational development needs; counsel, teach, coach, and motivate personnel; ensure fair and equitable practices; conduct performance evaluations; and recommend promotions and increases.
Ensure direct reports work in a discrimination-free environment, report and address potentially discriminatory situations, and adhere to Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity policies.
Assume the plant engineer’s duties in their absence.
Manage a team of 10 staff and 106 hourly teammates.
Perform other duties as assigned.