Maintenance Manager;

Sugar Refinery/Manufacturer in southwest Nebraska

Position Overview

This Sugar Refinery/Manufacturer has a challenging opportunity for a Maintenance Manager.  This position is responsible for all aspects of maintenance and mechanical reliability and capacity assurance of a beet sugar processing facility.  This position is responsible for budget development, budgetary control, staffing selection, removal and development of personnel.  The Successful candidate will possess a high degree of technical expertise and experience along with excellent management skills and the ability to provide leadership for the optimization of the workforce capability and plant performance to achieve corporate goals and customer requirements. Reporting to the Plant Manager

Essential Functions

• Live our Core Values of: Being a Safety Leader, Integrity, Openness & Trust, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, and Social Responsibility,
• Management of CMMS (SAP Maintenance System) to assure coordination of all aspects of preventive, corrective and planned maintenance scheduling.
• Development of facility maintenance planning, scheduling preventative, predictive and condition-based monitoring and work execution to achieve the highest level of plant productivity and minimal mechanical downtime.
• Budget development, management, and operational control of departmental activities to provide on budget and on schedule departmental performance.
• Responsible for development and implementation of cost reduction opportunities within the department and throughout the facility in general.
• Responsible for being the facility liaison with property risk consultants and is responsible for assuring, applicable code compliance fire system maintenance and inspections are scheduled and complete with minimal risk of mechanical failures.

Skill & Experience Requirements

• BS degree; Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Will consider candidates with equivalent educational and maintenance managing, scheduling, planning, preventive, predictive and condition-based monitoring system experience.
• Certified Professional Maintenance Manager (CPMM), through the Association for Facilities Engineering, preferred.
• > 5 exp in maintenance managing, and best practice maintenance strategies and programs.
• Experience and knowledge in Coal and Gas fired boilers with turbine powered electrical generation, grid and power distribution systems. As well as the associated regulatory requirements.
• Experienced as a Plant Engineer, Maintenance Manager, or Maintenance Engineer in a complex, integrated unit process system, distributed control, 24 -7 operations with high demand for plant availability and minimal downtime.
• Proficient in the optimization of maintenance systems including TQM, CMMS, TLC, MI, PM, PdM and complex maintenance scheduling, planning and execution for optimum equipment reliability and on time plant availability.
• Experienced in the management and utilization of Predictive Maintenance (PdM) (i.e., vibration analysis, IR surveys, Oil analysis, etc.).
• Proficiency in evaluation of machine or component failure analysis, selection of maintenance materials and development of ongoing improvement of maintenance systems, practices, and efficiencies.
• Familiar with applicable OSHA and GMP, BRC Certification and/or SQF Food Safety Standards.
• Must be able to handle several priorities at one time.
• Proficiency in coaching, training, and development of personnel to insure a successful succession plan.

Salary: $140K-160 w/ 5% bonus; strong benefits; 401K, relo assist; EOE; NO Sponsorship