SILVER GROVE, Kentucky, United States
18 hours ago
Senior Engineering and Maintenance Manager

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.

What’s the job?

Consistent with the Corporate Objectives, World Class manufacturing principles and within a high-performance team environment, the Senior Engineering and Maintenance Manager provides leadership to effectively manage maintenance and engineering functions of a gypsum wallboard and plaster manufacturing plant.

This position will guide maintenance and be responsible for the physical plant including buildings, grounds, machinery, and equipment, in compliance with local, state, and federal environmental and fire prevention standards. This Manager will also manage plant engineering activities to include capital expenditures, designs, cost estimations, capital requests, and selection/construction projects.

The Senior Engineering and Maintenance Manager reports to the Sr. Operations Manager. Reporting directly to this Manager is a team of maintenance professionals and engineers.

Below are some of the responsibilities this person will perform:

Develop departmental strategy and provide leadership to all departmental employees in the control & improvement of production processes, efficiency improvements, cost–savings initiatives, and CAPEX projects. Identifies and utilizes various change management strategies to overcome organizational roadblocks and achieve desired change levels and review outcomes for effectiveness. Primary interface with governmental agencies and compliance inspectors.

 

Effectively and continuously communicating with engineering, maintenance, operations and warehouse personnel and plant management. Internal contacts involve all plant teams in process control, purchasing and accounting personnel on requisitions and capital request data, and corporate engineering on special projects. Coordinates production to meet customer demands ensuring the maintenance work and project implementation outages are optimized.

 

Significant problem-solving situations involve scheduling of preventative and predictive maintenance programs and the installation, modification and /or repair of equipment in a manner which will assure employee safety, minimize production downtime, and assure product quality.

 

Directly leads all employees using team building, coaching, and teaching skills and knowledge of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) to lead the PM activities in expansion of lean manufacturing to all areas of the plant.

 

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