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Job Description
This role involves leading and managing a maintenance team in a manufacturing environment to ensure equipment reliability, safety, and operational efficiency, while supporting continuous improvement initiatives and maintaining compliance with safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement maintenance methods to reduce downtime, minimize costs, and optimize asset utilization.
- Collaborate with manufacturing teams to meet production and quality targets.
- Provide technical expertise to increase machine reliability and reduce breakdowns.
- Manage and coach mechanics and electricians to perform safety-compliant maintenance and training.
- Coordinate response to unexpected breakdowns to ensure production continuity.
- Conduct safety and maintenance training for new employees and ensure ongoing certification.
- Review work backlog, schedule daily tasks, and communicate plans and results to management.
- Lead shift turnover meetings to communicate safety, schedule updates, and performance issues.
- Ensure compliance with safety procedures, operational standards, and maintenance protocols.
- Oversee operation and maintenance of plant equipment such as air compressors and boilers.
- Enter work requests for emergency repairs and track issues in asset management systems.
- Manage maintenance parts inventory and control spending to optimize costs.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives through reliability and maintenance practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering or related discipline, with 5 years of supervisory experience delivering reliability improvements in a fast-changing manufacturing environment, or an equivalent combination of 7 years of experience, education, and certifications.
- Experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements.
- Experience managing Preventative Maintenance (P.M.) practices.
- Proven track record coaching, mentoring, motivating, and managing employees' skills development.
- Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes.
- Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.
- Must be able to work in environments that reach temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, including hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- Able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and overnight shifts to address unexpected site issues.
- Able to work on call on nights and weekends as needed.
- Able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, crawling, and pulling for up to twelve hours a day.
- Ability to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA.
- Less than 10% travel to other Enviva locations if and as necessary for training purposes.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule includes evenings, weekends, overnight shifts, and on-call hours
Work environment includes hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial conditions
Physical requirements include lifting up to 50 lbs, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, crawling, and pulling for up to 12 hours a day
Travel less than 10% for training or other purposes
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