Maintenance & Reliability Manager

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 pay 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

• Manage 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.

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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