Maintenance Manager - Texas Tissue Converting : Job Details

Company Description

Texas Tissue Converting is a Texas-based manufacturing company specializing in producing bath tissue and paper towels. We supply a wide range of consumer paper products to local communities and surrounding states, offering innovative and tailor-made services for our customers. With expertise in paper converting, our products are guaranteed to meet market demands and customer satisfaction. We pride ourselves on our flexibility and ability to respond to market changes.

Role Description

This full-time, on-site role based in Greater Houston is for a Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for the leadership and management of the mechanical maintenance teams for the paper converting lines and general facilities. Day-to-day tasks include supervising maintenance staff, implementing preventive maintenance programs, coordinating equipment maintenance, and ensuring the timely repair of machinery. The role requires efficient organization and management of maintenance resources to ensure operational effectiveness.

• Qualifications
• Maintenance Manager will place emphasis on planning/scheduling, preventative/predictive maintenance, reliability, and spare part availability optimize equipment availability, minimize unplanned downtime and equipment failures, and maintain functional buildings and grounds
• Support operational goals and metrics for asset productivity, quality and safety
• Ensure that safety rules and regulations are well known, understood and applied and equipment meets safety guidelines and regulations
• Prioritize, plan, and schedule maintenance work efficiently while minimizing maintenance cost and equipment downtime, as well as identify improvement opportunities
• Initiates, implements and manages the spare parts system to ensure part availability for planned maintenance work and unplanned/emergency repairs
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, make recommendations and implements maintenance activities for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related problems
• Works with other department leaders, Production Schedulers, Project Leaders, Maintenance Engineers to properly prioritize maintenance work and ensure proper maintenance resource allocation for allotted machine downs.
• Initiates and implements programs to track, analyze and improve key maintenance metrics including asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance.
• Strong knowledge of CMMS systems, work order systems and related system/software.
• Ensure proper workmanship of team members, performance recognition and disciplinary actions, completes performance reviews to maintain compliance with HR requirements.
• Respond to all unplanned and emergency downtime on equipment as required to efficiently and quickly resume operations.
• Development and administration of the maintenance budget.
• Manages the Facility, Building and Grounds Preventative Maintenance and Service contracts for the Manufacturing areas of responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of work management processes, labor estimating, resource balancing.
• Good working knowledge of facilities and industrial equipment and OEM requirements.
• Understanding of OSHA safety requirements, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of skilled trades, equipment fabrication, electricity and electronics, mechanics, PLC's, machine drives, pneumatics, hydraulics, plumbing and pipe fitting
• Ability to effectively lead work teams as well as work as a team member.
• Organizational and prioritization skills.
• Ability to read and understand machine drawings and/or schematic diagrams.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree prefer engineering or related fields of study
• Certificates and/or courses as relative to manufacturing, lean manufacturing, electrical, HVAC, etc.
• Minimum of 10 years in maintenance Manager role with proven ability in maintenance leadership.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing
• Experience in successful preventative maintenance and reliability improvement programs.