Facilities Manager
Dako
Frankfort, IN
JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Frankfort, IN
POSTED
6 days ago
- Manage the maintenance team, including electricians and fabrication employees.
- Oversee and supervise external workforce, consultants, and specialists.
- Develop preventive maintenance programs for all facility equipment.
- Ensure production machines, supporting equipment, and facility systems receive effective preventative maintenance for safe and efficient operations.
- Evaluate and address training needs within the maintenance department.
- Conduct followup verification inspections to ensure full completion of scheduled preventative maintenance tasks and procedures.
- Improve maintenance plans, methods, procedures, and instructions to enhance machine and facility availability and safety while minimizing costs.
- Recommend methods to improve labor efficiency and reduce material waste.
- Collaborate with other plants domestically and internationally to transfer knowledge and technical solutions.
- Track, monitor, and report equipment status, including priorities and response actions.
- Evaluate maintenance activities, including downtime, root cause analysis, repair status, and corrective actions.
- Manage spare parts inventory, ensuring reorder points, accuracy, and adherence to budget requirements.
- Initiate, define, and track purchase orders from initial need through project completion.
- Develop and implement strategies to standardize machine components and tooling.
- Maintain manuals and documentation for all machinery.
- Work with Finance to ensure optimal use of resources and provide required tracking information.
- Develop departmental goals and objectives; conduct performance and disciplinary counseling as needed.
- Lead maintenance department participation in all 5S activities.
- Lead all capital expenditure projects from concept to full implementation, including design, quoting, and presentations, ensuring maximum ROI and adherence to budgets.
- Ensure adherence to safety standards at all times.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of OSHA, EPA, IDEM, and other applicable regulations.
- Strong leadership and problemsolving skills; ability to multitask and resolve issues effectively.
- Working understanding of tooling, fabrication, and design.
- Basic knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- Working knowledge of cold heading processes, finish line plating, heat treatment furnaces, transportation, ventilation, and HVAC equipment.
- Ability to use PC databases, schematics, preventative maintenance systems, and CAD software.
- Excellent communication skills.
- 8+ years of successful maintenance supervision or management preferred.
- Cold heading manufacturing background preferred.
- Regular use of hands to handle tools and controls; frequent talking, listening, standing, walking, sitting, climbing, and reaching.
- Regular use of personal protective equipment.
- Occasional lifting or moving of 50+ pounds.
- Requires close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Work performed near moving mechanical parts; noise levels regularly exceed 85 dBA.
- Occasional exposure to fumes, airborne particles, and lowintensity acidic, caustic, or petrochemical fumes.
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