About the role
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What We Offer
The Maintenance & Reliability Manager
- is responsible for
- executing our global asset management strategy and ensuring the
- optimal
- performance of our production facilities. Lead a maintenance department
- comprising
- 5 professionals, with 2 direct reports. This role is viewed as a “dual” role with the expectation that 70% of the time is spent on reliability improvements and 30% of time is spent to act as Manager of the maintenance team. Responsible for improving and
- maintaining
- reliability, operability, and mechanical integrity of plant equipment and site facilities in a cost-efficient manner.
The pa
- y
- range
- for this role is $ 110,998-$158,539 annually. Additionally, it includes
- annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, 401K with company match, retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, parental leave and medical, dental and vision coverage (no waiting period).
Major Responsibilities
- Implement and manage maintenance and reliability strategies to support production and business objectives
- Develop and manage the departmental budget
- Share technical best practices at the site and within the international Covestro network
- Continuously improve asset availability in collaboration with internal stakeholders through KPIs and process optimization
- Resolve complex technical issues using Root Cause Analysis
- Ensure safety and regulatory compliance
- Implement standards, systems, and KPIs (asset availability targets) for
- optimal
- asset
- utilization
- Develop and inspire maintenance and reliability professionals
- M anage external partners and contractors
- Foster a culture of safety, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Site expert for SAP PM and TMM
- Follow the site’s management of change process when implementing improvements
- Provides technical support to the production and maintenance teams in a 24/7 manufacturing environment
- Implement Preventative (PM)/ Predictive Maintenance ( PdM ) techniques/technologies to
- determine
- functional status of equipment. Based on PM/ PdM
- findings, make recommendations on changes/modifications to equipment asset policies and stay informed of the latest PM/ PdM
- techniques and tools and recommend applications.
- Follow up on unexpected failures to
- determine
- if inspection/analysis techniques require modification to provide the proper
- indication
- of potential future failure.
- Collaborate with engineering and equipment experts to
- determine
- required changes to FMEA/RCM/EMP
- Has up-to-date knowledge about relevant internal regulations,
- aligns
- and communicates on site level to
- assure
- compliance with company policies in the field of asset reliability.
Identify
- and provide resource needs and skillsets
- required
- to achieve
- availability
- targets and goals.
- Assures uniformity in technical standards and technical operations at the site.
Has functional responsibility for
- people
- development in the site's reliability/maintenance team.
- Define and implement the maintenance plan including preventive and predictive maintenance plans, in line with the agreed manufacturing plan,
- in order to
- ensure maximum availability of the production facilities
- on
- the short and the long term.
Manage and
- monitor
- the execution of the maintenance plan and take corrective actions
- in order to
- achieve the results.
Analyze the plant and
- determine
- the criticality of installed equipment. For critical equipment, perform Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA), equipment specific for high critical and
- generic for
- medium critical.
Identify
- and prioritize performance killers and cost drivers related to equipment reliability by evaluating the performance of the plant, using statistical methods, RCA (Root Cause Analysis )
- and FMEA (Failure Mode & Effect Analysis)
- Propose and initiate solutions to
- eliminate
- actual and potential performance killers and discuss with stakeholders (maintenance, production, business, etc.). Ensure handover to
- appropriate work
- process .
What You Offer
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors
- degree in an Engineering field
- At least 10 years of experience
- in manufacturing/production in a maintenance or technical support role
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in the Chemical industry
- Experience in reliability improvement is strongly preferred.
- Experience in using SAP maintenance is strongly preferred.
Knowledge & Skills
- A demonstrated record of strong leadership, teamwork skills, change management, strategic thinking,
- planning
- and organizing, decision making, and root cause analysis
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