Maintenance Planning / Scheduling Manager

Maintenance Manager

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We are one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world's most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. We strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry's best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

We are seeking someone to join our company as a Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance Manager role is responsible for the safety, employee engagement, productivity, quality, and customer service associated with a multi-shift Maintenance operation. He / she is responsible for managing the daily operation of this department, ensuring efficiencies and overall productivity meets or exceeds established standards. Directs and coordinates the day-to-day activities of a team of Maintenance Mechanics by providing leadership and supervision to subordinates and serves as the link between direct reports and middle / upper management.

Job functions include but are not limited to the following :

• Work directly with and manage a team of maintenance mechanics.
• Ensure achievement of safety goals through developing and supporting a culture of following defined safety procedures, encouraging involvement, following up on safety concerns, and modeling proper safe behaviors.
• Ensure desired level of employee engagement within the Maintenance department.
• Ensure achievement of quality goals, ensuring employees are properly trained on quality standards, and following proper quality procedures.
• Ensure achievement of productivity goals by establishing and communicating clear objectives, providing requisite resources to direct reports, engaging the workforce and setting appropriate priorities / monitoring progress.
• Develop and support a culture focused on continuous improvement, waste reduction and optimal throughput, working closely with Reliability team and with production, warehousing and distribution department management on projects and process improvement opportunities.
• Develop, implement, improve and manage new and existing predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programs.
• Use maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of equipment and processes.
• Develop, implement and sustain reliability best practices to reduce unscheduled maintenance downtime and costs.
• Report savings resulting from maintenance excellence initiatives. Develop maintenance benchmarking metrics.
• Analyze downtime to identify chronic / sporadic failures and lead reliability improvement efforts.
• Assist in development and execution of overall Maintenance department budget.
• Effectively communicate both up and down the organization on key issues (e.g. performance reviews, 1-1's, safety meetings, overtime plans, monthly business results, etc.)
• Evaluate direct report job performance and recommends appropriate personnel action.
• Administer, communicate and interpret work procedures and company policies.
• Provides direct reports with guidance in handling difficult or complex problems and in resolving issues or submits unsettled disputes to management.
• Shares an obligation to protect and strengthen Graphic Packaging International's good reputation in our relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, competitors, investors, and governmental agencies, and to act consistently with our core values : Integrity, Respect, Accountability, Relationships, and Teamwork.
• Trained in HAACP and part of the Product Safety / HAACP team.
• Other duties as assigned

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Pay Range : $113,475.00 - $151,300.00

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