Maintenance Manager

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What Will You Enjoy Doing

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of plant maintenance, reliability, and asset performance. This role oversees preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of manufacturing equipment and facilities. The Maintenance Manager partners closely with production and engineering teams to minimize downtime, extend asset life, and support overall plant performance.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage all activities related to production and infrastructure equipment reliability
  • Ensure preventative maintenance performed to expectation
  • Ensures timely and accurate repair of machine breakdowns
  • Ensures proper and accurate record keeping of repair and parts usage
  • Ensure all equipment is updated to outlast standards for both safety and upgrades
  • Supports OEM initiatives for machine installs and upgrades
  • Implements and controls predictive maintenance schedules based on data acquired from machine downtime reports
  • Autonomous maintenance activities
• Managing Maintenance budgetary spending
  • Supports building maintenance budget during annual budget process
  • Drives cost savings initiatives through predictive maintenance and rebuild processes with parts suppliers
• Managing Maintenance team
  • Coordinates and leads training activities for maintenance techs.
  • Performs LOTO audits for verification of all technicians
  • Audits all technician work orders in maintenance software for compliance
• Manage continuous improvement activities
  • Leads and participates in RCA's for reoccurring deviations on equipment or performance
  • Leads department in 5S initiatives and installation events
  • Performs equipment kaizen events to bring equipment to like new condition

Performance Metrics:

• MTTF and MTTR
• Plant Operational Efficiency
• Tracking of Maintenance team skill level in E-Skills
• Maintenance record tracking to ALPLA standard
• MCI – Maintenance cost to budget
• RCA completions and implementations

The above metrics are reviewed by Plant Management and Regional Technical team in our
automated reporting systems

Competencies:

• Directs Work
• Develops Talent
• Nimble Learning
• Plans and Aligns
• Manages Conflict
• Resourcefulness
• Builds Effective Teams
• Customer Focus

What Makes You Great

• Four-year degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience required
• Minimum four years of work experience at ALPLA or similar industry required
• Experience with Computer Control Systems on machines
• Experience in working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• At least 3 years of supervisory experience required

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #KCI #salaried

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:
ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing
employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at
ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to
race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical,
mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital,
civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or
genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in
the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of
these characteristics

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