MaintenanceManager

## _Job Description_ The **Maintenance Manager** will direct all reliability and maintenance activities to ensure that maximum operational potential is realized for the entire plant operation. This includes all functions in the areas of Maintenance Business Management, Maintenance Materials Inventory (MRO), Maintenance Recruit to Retire, Manufacturing Process Reliability and Equipment Reliability, e.g. departmental budgets, computerized maintenance management systems, preventive/predictive and corrective maintenance programs. The Manager is also responsible for the development, coordination and execution of maintenance related capital budget items in concert with engineering. ** _Primary Responsibilities_ ** * Assures the safe execution of all maintenance and utility activities, demands that all plant activities are conducted following all safety procedures * Champions safety as the first consideration of all employees/contractors and promotes a safe work environment through own behaviors * Maintains facility and assets to meet regulatory guidelines e.g. USDA, FDA, OSHA, and EPA * Optimizes costs through effective budget planning and management and maintains a cost effective approach toward asset management and minimizing loss and waste * Optimizes the Availability and safe operation of production assets through appropriate predictive and preventative maintenance and safe and effective execution of corrective maintenance and projects * Coordinates major maintenance and project requirements with manufacturing production and engineering, to include major downtime activities and downtime periods and supports the effort to identify opportunities and develop the Plant’s Capital Budget * Trains maintenance staff on effective maintenance practices, including effective use of the computerized maintenance management system, problem solving tools, risk and failure analysis, maintenance scheduling and analysis of maintenance related data and equipment histories * Sets and eval