Assistant Maintenance Manager - Cement

We are looking for an Assistant Maintenance Manager  to join our team in Martinsburg, WV.  As an Assistant Maintenance Manager for Quikrete Construction Materials plays a vital role within the company and will contribute to the overall success and improved operations within Argos Cement. The main objectives of the role are to promote the maintenance management system, maintain and improve the plant reliability ensuring the appropriate application of maintenance procedures, methods, and best practices. Assist the department by managing the performance metrics, conducting analyses and recommending follow-up actions in order to optimize resources, increase asset life, and reduce overall costs.

Why apply?

• Competitive wages.
• Company provided benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Company paid life and disability benefits, paid vacation, and 401K.

About the Role 

Responsibilities:

• Establishes the maintenance department's daily/weekly work schedule based on information drawn from four sources - specific requests, the master preventive maintenance program, inspection based, and predictive based work orders.
• Responsible for screening, prioritizing and approving work orders from sources based on criticality to the operation as well as manpower and downtime availability while always taking into consideration the effect on equipment reliability.
• Initiate job preparation and planning by advising the Maintenance Planner of tasks that require technical specifications, limitations, methods or procedures to be defined prior to being scheduled.
• Plans, Executes and attends scheduling meetings with other departments to specify downtime requirements and define interaction required between the different operation groups as well as communicating daily with the production coordinator for the day-to-day requirements.
• Prepare and track job lists are prepared and distributed to the appropriate Maintenance Supervisors for execution. 
• Ensure that planning is complete before scheduling job tasks. Upon completion of the work order the incumbent is responsible for ensuring that pertinent information is recorded in the equipment history as well as ensuring that work orders are closed and history is entered by the Maintenance Supervisors. History must be kept in such a manner that it can be used for analysis purposes such as follow-up, upgrade requirements, troubleshooting and budget preparation. Information is kept live in the Computerized Maintenance Management System as well as hard copies, as deemed necessary, are placed in the maintenance equipment files.
• Initiate, authorize, and schedule routine contract work and services company and is responsible for ensuring administrative functions for appropriate cost control are in place, such as providing the scope of work to the vendor, approving purchase order requisitions and maintaining a cost control spread sheet for budget control purposes.
• Contributes to monitoring and maintaining the Master Preventive Maintenance Schedule by ensuring the even distribution of preventive maintenance throughout the year and coordinating the updating of PM check lists as deemed necessary by equipment upgrades and modifications. Also responsible for entering new equipment numbers and ensuring the updating of equipment parts catalog by the maintenance planner.
• Works closely with the Associate Manager-Methods with respect to priority and scheduling of activities from the preventive and predictive maintenance program.
• The incumbent maintains the mechanical backlog ensuring work orders are up to date,
• have been sufficiently planned and are kept live as required providing information as to the status and scheduling requirements of the same.
• Schedule the daily and weekly workload of the Maintenance Department and will define the overall plant schedule for annual equipment overhauls and coordinates the schedule accordingly. By obtaining and recording pertinent information required the incumbent produces a schedule ensuring mechanical, electrical, production, process and development requirements fit into the schedule thus defining the critical path. Throughout the shutdown the incumbent tracks all departments' tasks ensuring the critical path stays within a fixed duration while at the same time meeting the scheduling needs of the mechanical department for that particular overhaul and the daily maintenance of equipment in operation. The incumbent must have advanced knowledge of and utilize the Microsoft Project Scheduler software to produce an effective, live document for reference by plant personnel.
• Responsible for all aspects of mentor, coaching and leadership of a team of 3 direct reports (maintenance supervisors, & engineering / automation team member. This responsibility includes the ability to address issues such as productivity, safety, training, development, and employee relations etc.
• Give constructive feedback and coaching as required to maintain a high degree of professionalism within the group.
• To accomplish the prime objectives of the position the incumbent must be fully cognizant of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), have knowledge of the work order tracking system, spare parts catalog, requisitioning and inventory systems as well as compatibility with other software packages such as Microsoft Project Scheduler.

About You

We Require:

• 5 years’ experience in cement manufacturing or related heavy industry, prior Supervisory experience preferred.
• Strong mechanical background with experience as a skilled tradesperson required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good understanding of units of measure, both metric and standard.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to perform mathematical functions.
• Intermediate computer skills, prior experience in Microsoft Excel and SAP helpful.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and OEM maintenance plans.
• Demonstrated ability to learn through formal training and work related experiences.
• Motivated with demonstrated ability to work within a team environment and to tight deadlines.

About Us

Each day brings new challenges, and we make sure you are prepared for it all. Our dedication to continual improvement and hands-on training ensures you are ready for the many new experiences and challenges that you will face. We offer:

A friendly and team-oriented work environment, with a supportive management team.

Hands-on training for our employees and opportunities for advancement.

A company dedicated to continuous improvement.

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