Maintenance Manager
FRS Recruitment
- Monaghan
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Maintenance Manager will work closely with other manufacturing departments to help meet production goals, minimize equipment downtime, support process improvements, and enhance the performance of company equipment in a safe manner.
- Full responsibility and accountability for the maintenance department
- Ensuring plant site, buildings, machinery, and services, are maintained in optimum condition to meet the targets of the factory, maximizing uptime and plant reliability
- Maintaining plant safety compliance, safe standards of maintenance work and equipment upkeep, and statutory equipment certification
- The management and leadership of maintenance fitters and electricians
- Support craftsmen through both hands-on, and a positive culture of knowledge and skill sharing, to contribute to the overall performance of the team, and to support a dynamic and innovative development of the factory
- To guide and help these craftsmen in their work quality, and assist them in problem solving and breakdown solutions, and improvements
- Lead, motivate and develop a Lean approach of the team for the implementation of these goals
- Coordination of maintenance staff holidays, overtime, attendance, and general performance
- Maintenance schedule planning
- Management of spare parts stock control, parts ordering including sourcing of better or cheaper parts and suppliers, and the respect of department budgets
- Management of contractors and external maintenance service providers
- Communication with production managers and operators to understand issues and devise appropriate solutions and improvements. Coordination and communication of all maintenance works with other relevant departments in the company
- Ensuring a rapid and effective response to production equipment problems whether actionable internally or requiring external assistance or specialists
- Proposing and implementing new productivity and cost reduction initiatives to improve production equipment performance, cost effectiveness, and maintenance expenditure optimisation
- Monitor and drive energy efficiency in the consumption of electricity, oil, gas, and water
- Participate in the design and implementation of :
- World Class Maintenance principals and tools and implementation of improved work order systems, CMMS, stock control, and predictive maintenance programme
- Maintenance Department, Continuous Improvements Programmes, and KPIs.
- Enhancement of plant preventative maintenance programme and procedures
- Planning and coordinating plant shutdown maintenance works, including plant modifications, new processes, and capex projects
- Maintenance budgets forecasting and maintaining costs within planned targets
- Problem solving, root cause analysis, and the implementation of corrective actions as part of plant-wide multidisciplinary teams such as Production, Quality, R&D, Engineering, etc.