Foundry Equipment Maintenance Manager - 1750239

JOB TITLE: FOUNDRY MAINTENANCE MANAGER

LOCATION: Hodges, South Carolina

DURATION: FULL TIME POSITION

Job description:

The Maintenance Manager supervises maintenance activities for equipment, facilities, and infrastructure in the foundry. The manager will communicate with upper management, peers, contractors, and technicians to ensure maintenance goals are reached.

Responsibilities

Evaluate the current workforce skillset, plans and implements a maintenance training program.

Collaborates with engineers, partners, and suppliers to meet business goals in accordance with the sustainable use of facilities and budget demands.

Constructs an efficient facility maintenance team and guides training sessions to ensure quality performance.

Evaluates the operation's effectiveness with current utilities and equipment; provides appropriate solutions to challenges and risks.

Oversees inspections, repairs and updates of facilities and relevant operational activities; maintains order at the facility.

Degree Requirement

Engineering Degree or equivalent experience desired

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.

Level Expert Experience:

Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.

Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.

Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Level Working Knowledge:

Applies established organizational practices in budgeting.

Under guidance, produces budget reports of planned vs. actual expenses with variances explained.

Supplies supporting information and justification for major line items.

Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations.

Uses budgeting and charge-back practices within own area.

Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.

Level Working Knowledge:

Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.

Interprets and analyses results vs. established benchmarks.

Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.

Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.

Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

Helps to analyses risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Manufacturing Equipment: Knowledge of the hydraulic, electrical, and mechanical used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update, and store them.

Level Basic Understanding:

Describes the roles and responsibilities of equipment vendors and own staff.

Explains where and how to obtain more equipment-specific information.

Lists basic aspects of routine and preventive maintenance.

Identifies uses and features of diverse types of manufacturing equipment.

Facilities Management: Knowledge of processes, methodologies and techniques used to manage facilities; ability to handle the full spectrum of activities for managing and maintaining physical facilities and infrastructure.

Level Extensive Experience:

Works with the installation, maintenance, and upkeep for a large or multiple facilities.

Monitors environmental, safety and equipment requirements and conditions.

Participates in the development of change, contingency and back-up or recovery plans.

Deals effectively with customers and vendor support staff to resolve routine problems.

Manages space planning processes and establishes requirements for staff and equipment.

Monitors processes and procedures for developing and maintaining building security to ensure regulatory compliance.