Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Position Summary: 

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager will lead the maintenance and reliability teams and support the capital improvement functions at the Red River Manufacturing Facility and Natchitoches Processing Facility. They is a key leader on the Red River Leadership Team and has overall responsibility for maintenance and reliability functions at the sites. They will directly manage, lead and develop a staff of 4-6 direct reports and 17 – 22 indirect reports; and will be responsible for all aspects of personnel and performance management for those in their span of control.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure the highest level of safety and environmental stewardship across the organization.
• Define, develop, manage and lead the maintenance/reliability/ functions (i.e. strategy, program, budget and culture); including behaviors, policies, procedures, tasks, and metrics to meet business goals and drive a high-performance work culture.
• Ensure plant production equipment and facilities are available to meet production demand.
• Work collaboratively with key technical, environmental, safety, operations and quality personnel to drive continuous improvement in plant performance.
• Support and coordinate work activities across all plant functional areas, including the development of field staffing plans for capital project execution, plant scheduled maintenance outages and major plant repair work.
• Provide staff development, hiring, coaching, counseling, and training; and ensure organizational performance, growth and learning build a strong, collaborative team in an environment of team member empowerment.
• Provide strong engineering and technical leadership in the areas of plant mechanical integrity, preventive/predictive maintenance strategies, CMMS development, maintenance planning/scheduling, work system efficiency, root cause analysis, equipment repair techniques and work quality assessment. 
• Lead, manage and provide technical leadership in capital project development, execution, commissioning and budget development/management including areas of safety, alternatives analysis, IRR/NPV, FEL process, scoping, design, quality control, cost control, contractor capabilities assessment and selection, engineering and construction standards, and project management.  
• Lead contractor selection process for Engineering, , Turnaround, and Maintenance Contractors.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities: 

• Excellent written and presentation skills.  
• Ability to take complex technical and operational issues and distill them down to their essence for communication across the organization.  
• Ability to effectively coordinate and communicate across the entire breadth of staff levels – from Operating/Maintenance personnel to Chief Executive Officer.
• Strong mechanical/electrical aptitude.
• Strong project management skills.
• Motivated, energetic, and enthusiastic 
• People skills including coaching and teaching 
• Highly analytical  
• Excellent problem-solving skills  
• Strong leadership skills with the demonstrated ability to drive behavioral and cultural norms within a work group, and to positively influence peers and others toward a shared vision.
• Outstanding collaboration and coordination skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to work across functional and geographic lines
• toward a common goal
• Computer skills including aptitude for computerized work and proficient working knowledge of the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook), MS Project, and CMMS as well as a demonstrated ability to learn other software as necessary.
• Highly proficient in business writing and presentation
• Advanced understanding of CMMS

Education and experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience required
• Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing preferred
• Plant Maintenance or Reliability Leadership/Management experience: 3+ years 
• Financial/Budget/Forecasting/Cost Management experience as cost center owner/manager: 3+ years
• CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) experience.
• Chemical/Power/Paper Manufacturing experience with detailed knowledge of chemical manufacturing equipment and processes (i.e. repair methods, material of construction requirements, failure modes, preventive/predictive maintenance strategies/technologies etc.): 5+ years.