Mechanical Maintenance Manager

Role And Responsibilities

• Champion safety awareness, hazard identification, and corrective action follow-up in all maintenance activities.
• Lead and set expectations for precision maintenance work, audit for compliance and drive adherence to reliability standards.
• Conduct and enforce discipline within the Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) process to prevent recurrence of failures.
• Represent Maintenance in daily production reviews and cross-functional planning with operations, engineering, and procurement.
• Plan, schedule, and oversee maintenance projects, preventive and predictive maintenance (PM / PdM), and reliability initiatives.
• Review work-order backlog, recommend addition or replacement of equipment, and ensure prioritization aligns with operational goals.
• Provide input to annual outage planning, budgeting, and capital (CapEx) project development.
• Manage staffing, scheduling, and workload distribution for the mechanical shops to meet variable production demands and deadlines.
• Mentor, train, and develop personnel to maintain strong technical capability and readiness; lead succession planning.
• Manage requisitions, purchasing, invoice approvals, and budget compliance for maintenance activities.
• Drive continuous improvement as a change agent by promoting workflow optimization, precision work practices, 6S, and reliability culture.
• Maintain compliance with environmental, ISO, and corporate policies.
• Serve as a member of the Pixelle Industrial Fire Team for fire prevention and response as required.
• Remain available for 24-hour on-call maintenance support.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

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