Preventive Maintenance Assistant Manager

Preventive Maintenance Assistant Manager role at NPAworldwide

We are looking for a talented Preventive Maintenance Junior Manager to oversee asset reliability and maintenance operations at the Portland Food Manufacturing plant. In this role, you will be responsible for managing asset risks, optimizing operational efficiency, and leading a team to ensure continuous and dependable production performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Make decisions and deliver on overall Safety, Quality, and Line Efficiency for assigned lines or areas including remote support as needed.
• Enable, manage and be participant of the Daily Meeting System for maintenance.
• Develop, monitor, and execute plans through the maintenance & repair cell, building their skills and providing training when applicable.
• Lead daily maintenance meetings and drive accountability for performance.
• Support for recruitment of mechanics and oversee the interviews and offers to mechanics.
• Act as the primary liaison for union-related issues, fostering strong labor relations.
• Build capabilities and train new Preventive Maintenance (PM) line lead.
• Co-Lead tooling & workshop management. Ensure Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance in both.
• Oversee the lubrication program and ensure proper execution.
• Collaboration with Reliability engineer and ensure Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), Time-Based Maintenance (TBM) development, Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) management, and execution support.
• Budget control and initial maintenance cost improvements.
• Working on low-cost improvements project to manage Maintenance Cost.
• Lead Preventive Maintenance (PM) agenda in Small Group Activities (SGA) on the critical line equipment and work with autonomous team in developing standards (CILs, CLs, PMs) subject matter experts (Bosch, R.A. Jones, etc.).
• Enable and facilitate Progressive Maintenance (PM) to Autonomous Maintenance (AM) transfer.
• Lead capability agenda, developing skill matrix, lead trainings for trades technicians and operators on top skill gap.
• Lead breakdown / root cause analysis and actions implementations to improve the lines performance, to increase Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• Prioritize, plan, and execute all found abnormalities including safety and quality action items.
• Mentor Team Leads as needed.
• Support and ensure vertical startups, ensuring all assigned lines are production ready.
• Create the shutdown schedules and scopes of work for PM activity windows and shutdown weekends.
• Coordinate weekend shift layouts based on plant needs and resource availability.
• Develop and prioritize maintenance activities on assigned lines and assign names for the tasks, and efficiently execute.
• Coverage for Team Leads during the week and weekend as needed.
• Support the effort to manage and organize workload in SAP, continually keeping the SAP system clean and assigning the work to the proper revisions.

Qualifications

Education / Certifications

Work Schedule

Salary

Annual Salary : $90,000 - $115,000 USD

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