JOB PURPOSE

Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital investment programmes, maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides long-range planning for the plant and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
• Develops, implements, and oversees predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance programmes.
• Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis, and fault-diagnosis of equipment and processes.
• Coaches and develops all maintenance technicians, creating individual training and development plans.
• Continually reviews the effectiveness of the service, ensuring that cost controls are maintained and internal customer expectations are managed.
• Ensure support & cover for the site is maintained through the maintenance team.
• Manage and control all site maintenance and engineering activities.
• Drive and support process improvement activities in the pursuit of excellence.
• Work with the Site Leadership Team to ensure that the level of service meets the business needs, developing long-term plans as required.
• Ensure that all plant and equipment is regularly inspected in order to meet current Health, Safety and Environmental standards, insurance requirements, and legislative compliance.
• Develop a high-performance maintenance team, where individuals take responsibility for:
  • Following safe-working practices.
  • Improving the performance of their designated machines.
  • Managing one or more functions of the maintenance department.
  • Maintaining good working relationships with machine operators.
  • Accurate reporting of interventions and other activities.
• Recruit and manage individual performance through formal performance review and one-to-one coaching.
• Support each member of the team in his/her ongoing personal development:
  • Multi-skills.
  • Machine-specific technical know-how.
  • Problem-solving skills.
• Develop and implement a cost-effective maintenance programme comprising:
  • Planned, preventive maintenance.
  • Predictive and condition-based maintenance.
  • Targeted refurbishment programmes.
  • Prioritised work-to lists and opportunistic maintenance.
• Create an environment of Continuous Improvement where machine downtime and machine-related quality defects reduce with time, embracing the appropriate improvement tools, e.g.:
  • Pareto analysis.
  • FMEA and RCFA.
  • CMMS.
• Develop and manage a cost-effective spare-parts holding.
• Support the TPM programme, in particular giving support where needed.
• Report machine and departmental performance through agreed KPIs.
• Manage projects and ensure that all machine modifications are controlled.
• Meet current legislative requirements and best installation practices.
• Risk assessed for human, product, and equipment impacts.
• Relevant documentation is updated, spare-parts holding modified, training provided.
• Control expenditure within agreed budgets and provide ongoing, accurate forecast.
• Manage site contractors to ensure that safe working practices are applied and that work is completed within the agreed timescales and cost.