Maintenance Manager

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For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.

Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

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About the role

The Maintenance Manager provides functional leadership and direction to the maintenance team.The individual must be a proven leader who can provide vision and leadership to achieve daily, yearly, and long-term asset reliability goals by applying Maintenance best practices site-wide. The individual must have a good working knowledge of maintenance, reliability, mechanical integrity, and quality assurance best practices. This person must have the organizational capability to work across multiple functions and systems and communicate well with operators, mechanics, peers, and leadership. They must be able to lead improvement teams, network with appropriate professional organizations, and maintain strong connections to regional and corporate M&R and technical groups. The position has direct reports, including Mechanics, Welders, and Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians.

Goals for the Role

• Act as a Safety Leader to ensure individual and team Safety remains a top priority in the planning and executing all tasks.
• Work closely with Company Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) personnel, targeting zero incidents and continuous improvement of site EHS performance.
• Continuous improvement in the maintenance approach, encouraging initiatives intended to reduce safety risk, increase productivity and efficiency, and reduce maintenance costs.

The position's responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following

• Lead in promoting a strong safety and environmental stewardship culture. Ensure good maintenance and reliability practices are followed. Contribute managerial and leadership expertise to events that impact the site's safety, health, and environmental performance.
• Plan, develop, and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve operations, minimize operating costs, and increase labor and material utilization.
• Lead the maintenance team's selection, assignment, development, coaching, and performance evaluation.
• Manage maintenance shops, which are comprised of both mechanical and E&I crafts, and have advanced skills.
• Manage site maintenance, attrition forecasting, and plan for hiring.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year long-term maintenance plan for the site.
• Maintain a metric dashboard for maintenance that drives improvement and helps prioritize actions.
• Develop self, direct reports, and other leaders and subordinates.
• Develop yearly and monthly maintenance budgets and the activities to ensure alignment and achievement of budgets.
• Develop a strong cost management structure for maintenance that identifies opportunities to improve our business and provides short- and long-term actions to reduce costs.
• Provide overall leadership and direction for the site Work Management Program (WMP) to be cost-competitive by utilizing the correct application of best practices.
• Support a Computer Maintenance Management System and other associated tools.
• Provide overall direction and vision for Outage Planning processes and teams that plan and coordinate the implementation of shutdowns.
• Achieve the outage budgets, scopes, and schedules.
• Drive reliability improvements and identify gaps between the reliability goals and plant performance.
• Set expectations for the reliability efforts to develop solutions to repetitive failures through root cause analysis and preventive and predictive maintenance practices.
• Continue implementing current reliability improvement programs, seeking a more proactive work management process and a stronger relationship between maintenance activities and the business's cost performance.
• Inspect operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Confer with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve the operations and conditions of machines and equipment.

Qualifications, Education, Training & Skills

• Waste-to-Energy maintenance experience or a solid background in power, industrial, or chemical plant maintenance, including a minimum of 5 years of supervisor experience, strongly preferred
• Engineering degree, preferred
• Must possess good knowledge of electrical and instrumentation, including the National Electric Code, and familiarity with NFPA Arc Flash safety regulations.
• Proficiency in work management processes, including planning & scheduling and preventative maintenance.
• Experience in planning and leading major maintenance outages.
• Thorough understanding of Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance Practices and systems
• Work experience in the design, repairs, maintenance, reliability, failure modes, and/or inspection of chemical process equipment.
• Familiar with reliability tools such as Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Solid understanding of Lean, 5S, and other reliability process improvement tools to move the organization into a more competitive position.

Physical Demand of the Role

• Ability to walk, stand, sit, and climb
• Ability to lift/carry 50lbs
• Ability to work from heights and in confined spaces
• Qualify to wear a full-face respirator
• Consistently work in various weather conditions

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual Performance-Based Incentive Bonus
• Day one employee benefits: competitive health insurance options, PTO, retirement savings plan, and 401K match

All Reworld positions require a candidate's ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role while upholding Reworld's Values, including (but not limited to) contributing to a safe and inclusive workplace, delivering results through trust, and building breakthrough capabilities.

Please note that Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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Reworld is an Equal Opportunity Employer, has developed an Affirmative Action Program (AAP), and will not discriminate against any qualified applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability (including perceived disability, physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilities), veteran status, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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