Maintenance Manager (Mt Gilead, Nc, Us, 27306)

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Maintenance Manager
Description
Directs and coordinates the work of the maintenance department including safety, quality, cost, efficiency, training, and environmental compliance.
Responsibilities

• Ensure that the facilities, layout and machinery used to produce run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes preventative and predictive maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, and electrical equipment including software. This includes people management and budgetary cost reporting.
• Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere. Support encourage and develop team and take ownership for team cohesion
• Manage the process of the introduction of new machinery, plant and equipment from drawing up the specification, to managing suppliers through to full installation in collaboration with all relevant parties
• Hire, manage, coach and develop a high performing maintenance team that meets agreed objectives, delivers best practice results, adds value and pursues continuous improvements
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Maintenance activities
• Minimize breakdown recovery
• Work as part of the Management team to share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimize results and improve quality of delivery, in line with quality standards requirements delivery in line with company and customer requirements
• Drive asset reliability
• Institutes a fix it right the first-time mind set in the department.
• Review, implement and update company records e.g. training matrices, performance reviews, risk assessments
• Identify business improvement opportunities within the organization
• Manage the team to ensure machine availability, reactively managing dysfunctional machinery with the shift management
• Communicate with stakeholders the impact of market change and potential effects on engineering design and development. Recommend solutions without compromising quality or service while optimizing cost
• Provide technical expertise to the team
• Segregate and prioritize safety action items above other work orders
• Improve Production capability & capacity
• Foster commitment to all safety initiatives, mental models, and complies with all safety rules, procedures and programs.
• Deploy fast action response teams with clear guidance and direction during upset conditions
• Maximize internal customer service and relationships
• Manage contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements
• Develop a Planned & Predictive Maintenance schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out, plan in missed maintenance activities, and lead the team to deliver effective reliability support.
• Communicate with other departments, internal customers, suppliers and other service providers
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Produce written reports and make presentations
• Track history of causes and implement knowledge share to prevent repeat occurrences
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance. Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the maintenance strategy
• Visibly adhere to Mohawk’s Core Values and communicate all departmental goals.
• Perform root cause, KT analysis and resolve problems. Develop job plans to improve task effectiveness.
• Identify and deploy the technical skill sets, resource levels and systems to deliver projects, including the engagement of external resources as required
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance and record on appropriate systems
• Create a maintenance culture that drives safety
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviors expected of them
• Develop continuous training and development program to assess, identify and build correct team skillsets
• Effectively delegate any maintenance issues to be resolved on each shift and small projects to the right skills in the team, planning and managing effective works
• Schedule both internal and external work(s) maximizing planned down time and reducing unplanned downtime
• Identify hazards, develop solutions and implements safety improvements autonomously.

• Deploy and optimize maintenance support systems
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
• Prepare the annual Maintenance budget and forecasts and all Capital Expenditure proposals as well as ensuring compliance with legal standards. Manage the budget from identification to completion of projects
• Optimize ERP/CMMS tools
• Performs other related duties as required
• Develop clear accountability for maintenance material spend combined with a strategy to manage expenditure
• Maintain Budget and control conversion cost
• Manage systems and equipment data storage and maintain high levels of standards and accuracy
• Manage the process of disposal of obsolete machinery, plant and equipment from gaining agreement to write off to physically removing it and its safe and lawful disposal

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining a CMMS system.
• Understanding of manufacturing and procurement/supply chain
• Engineering degree preferred, relevant BS degree and or equivalent knowledge in mechanical or electrical sciences.
• Technical capability and understanding of mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
• Experience of managing Profit and Loss (P&L) responsibilities for maintenance

Competencies

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Extensive plant level experience with significant proven management experience
• Experience developing a maintenance planning department that extensively plans both runtime and downtime activities to include, but not limited to developing job plans, kitting parts, planning down days, and collaborating with other departments.
• Understands how to execute an apprenticeship/training program with a mechanical/ electrical/ electronic discipline
• SAP experience preferred, but not required.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.
Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.