Maintenance Manager

Position Summary The Maintenance Manager is responsible for the overall day-to-day supervision of the Maintenance Department. The Maintenance manager plans, estimates, and schedules preventative and corrective maintenance of plant equipment, machinery, and service systems to increase uptime and minimize unscheduled downtime. The Maintenance Manager supervises maintenance employees and includes planning and scheduling maintenance work responsibilities.

This position also delivers on our core focus of:

• The answer is yes. Be a solutions provider

While building on our core values of:

• Help 1st
• Take ownership
• Do the right thing

Expect excellence

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for equipment reliability through sound maintenance practices including cost-effective preventative and predictive maintenance and lubrication programs. Ensure that programs and repairs are prioritized and completed on a timely basis so that production and profitability objective are met. Implement quality improvement and cost reduction ideas.
• Plan, schedule, and monitor the timely completion of Maintenance work orders. Review job orders to determine work priorities. Ensure efficient work execution on daily assignments, area shutdowns and on all maintenance projects. Set priorities and coordinate Maintenance department activities and assignments. Responsible for daily maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to converting and corrugated equipment.
• Establish and assign all daily, weekly, and monthly routine maintenance schedules and coordinate necessary machine downtime with the Plant Manager.
• Day-to-day supervision, coaching, training, development and leadership of hourly Maintenance employees in a high-performance work team environment. Ensure Maintenance employees understand and are able to troubleshoot all jobs and are fully trained on mechanical repairs, equipment use, adjustments, and unique situations.
• Schedule work, coordinate production activities, provide direct oversight of employees, approve time records, communicate, and implement Company policy.
• Conduct training for production employees in the performance of routine operator level maintenance tasks.
• Report to Plant Manager any information that may impede the operation of the plant as soon as it becomes known.
• Lead the Maintenance team in safety, quality, and productivity to ensure facility goals are met in meeting customer needs.
• Serve as a technical resource for Production Manager, Plant Manager, General Manager, and other Company personnel.
• Contact and work with vendors and subcontractors to achieve desired results.
• Maintain adequate inventories of parts and supplies and purchase material, parts, and supplies as required with a focus on cost control to an established budget.
• Troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Follow all safety rules and practices. Ensure that all Maintenance personnel are trained and adhere to all safety rules and practices. Maintain a clean, safe, and injury-free work environment by ensuring health and safety procedures are understood and executed.
• May manage the maintenance budget for the facility.
• Utilize various systems to track and report maintenance key performance measures.
• Plan/schedule Maintenance projects. Follow through to completion of projections.
• Maintain open communication with Managers and Managers at the plant to ensure they are informed of problems and or/unusual situations.
• Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by management.

Cultural Competencies

Help First means being a reliable team member serving everyone, internally and externally. At Akers, we believe and exhibit a “roll up your sleeves and get the job done” mentality and behavior. No job is unimportant, and no person is above any job. We demonstrate this through:

• Able communicator - good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Solution vs. blame oriented

Take Ownership means that you think and act like an owner. No matter the role, everyone is empowered to be a good steward of the organization. Each person has the autonomy to make recommendations for improvement to their work and the organization. We demonstrate this through:

• Patient
• Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations
• Advocate for continuous improvement
• Mixture of firmness and flexibility
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Holds self and others accountable
• Takes calculated risks

Do the Right Thing means that do what’s right regardless of its popularity. Having high moral standards is paramount and is the compass that keeps us on track. We demonstrate this through:

• Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
• Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not

Expect Excellence means that you do it right the first time. At Akers, we expect excellence in all we do We demonstrate this through:

• Resilient - able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
• Has sense of urgency
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People needs

• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Ability to regularly lift up to 20 lbs. frequently 20-35 lbs. occasionally, more than 35 lbs. rarely, over 50 lbs. requires team or mechanical assistance
• Travel up to 25%

Systems Usage MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams)

• ERP System Kiwi
• ADP Workforce Now

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, Associates degree, vocational degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience leading a maintenance team, at least 5 years