Maintenance Manager (Chilco)

Position Summary

The Maintenance Manager will provide leadership for the maintenance department and oversee the maintenance business process. Support and improve safety processes, continuously improve equipment reliability through predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and elimination of worst actors, oversees the assessment and repair of problems as they arise, plans and coordinates mill maintenance, delegates responsibilities, and develops and organizes the department and its team members.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Manage the work assignments of all mechanical, electrical, and automation employees.
• Manage the activities of assigned personnel to ensure maintenance excellence is achieved and maintained so that all equipment is operating at cost-effective, peak performance.
• Oversees the warehouse and inventory of parts and materials
• Coordinates directly with production departments to support mill performance goals
• Participate in the planning and implementation of all capital projects in the mill.
• Oversee installation, repair and maintenance of plant machinery and equipment and coordination of outside contractors, with primary focus on safe and continuous operation of all equipment and facilities.
• Ensure that safety requirements are met in the planning and implementation process for capital projects.
• Manage the activities of all maintenance personnel to ensure that plant critical objectives are achieved using acceptable practices.
• Monitor teams performance, to identify and address maintenance insufficiencies.
• Recommends, supports, and adheres to LEAN/Six Sigma principals including 6S, Kaizen, and DMAIC projects.
• Implements and manages root cause analysis (RCA) problem-solving efforts to eliminate repeat equipment failures.
• Other duties as needed.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Years of Experience as a Maintenance Manager
• Skills:
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements and safety procedures
• Proven leadership and team building skills
• Organizational skills with ability to multitask
• Demonstrated technical or maintenance and supervisory skills
• Proficient computer skills including use of maintenance management systems, project planning systems, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to operate a variety of material handling equipment and tools desirable
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing and maintenance business processes, including:
• Work order management and work flow process
• Mechanical systems
• Power distribution
• Control systems and hydraulics
• Robotics/Automation
• Precision maintenance techniques
• Ability to pass a drug and alcohol test, post-offer pre-employment physical, and background check.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, maintenance, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or related field.
• Valid driver’s license
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Ability to sit and/or stand for shift, reach with hands and arms, stoop, squat, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distance, and climb stairs.

• Bend at waist – occasional
• Twist upper body – occasional
• Stoop - occasional
• Repetitive use of hands – frequent for clerical duties
• Stand/walk – frequent
• Sit – occasional
• Vision – near and far correctable; depth perception
• Hearing – preferred for awareness of surrounding machinery, mobile equipment, emergencies
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Must be able to tolerate all weather elements, loud conditions, airborne particles (sawdust).

Idaho Forest Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, family medical history, or any other status protected by law.

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