Job Description
The Maintenance Manager oversees plant maintenance operations to ensure equipment reliability, safety, and operational efficiency in a manufacturing environment, leading a team of technicians and collaborating with various departments to optimize performance and reduce downtime.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead plant maintenance operations to improve equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and safety performance.
- Partner with Corporate Reliability and manufacturing teams to reduce downtime, eliminate recurring breakdowns, and optimize maintenance costs.
- Manage and coach a team of mechanics and electricians to perform maintenance safely and effectively, ensuring safety, quality, and production goals are met.
- Coordinate and communicate daily work schedules, safety incidents, production performance, and special instructions during shift turnovers and management meetings.
- Ensure compliance with safety procedures, operational standards, and maintenance protocols.
- Oversee operation and maintenance of key plant equipment such as air compressors, boilers, and air conditioning systems.
- Manage spare parts inventory, work requests, and maintenance documentation in electronic systems.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives through reliability practices, preventive maintenance, and problem-solving with automated monitoring tools.
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.
- Experience with applied working knowledge of time, condition, and predictive-based maintenance processes.
- Experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) pillars - Autonomous and Effective Maintenance in a process environment.
- Working knowledge of Analytical Process Mapping.
- Ability to work in environments that reach temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, including hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- Ability to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and overnight to address unexpected site issues.
- Ability to work on call on nights and weekends as needed.
- Physical ability to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, crawling, and pulling for up to twelve hours a day.
- Ability to lift and pull up to 50 lbs safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with the ADA.
- Less than 10% travel to other Enviva locations for training purposes or as necessary.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule includes evenings, weekends, overnight shifts, and on-call availability
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% to other Enviva locations for training or other purposes
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