Hiring Manager: Gerard Gutowski
Salary Exempt Position
Company - United Salt Saltville, LLC
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote safety culture through leadership, actions, and championing safety protocols.
- Improve reliability and minimize downtime of equipment and facilities through preventative maintenance and repairs.
- Coordinate maintenance and repair activities with Operations departments.
- Manage maintenance costs to the plant budget.
- Guide, supervise, and evaluate the performance of direct reports.
Accountable For:
- Creating a positive work environment and promoting safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Cultivating a culture of constant compliance.
- Regular communication with senior management and other departments regarding plant maintenance schedules and issues.
- Managing and organizing maintenance and repair of pumps, grinders, mixers, and other machines.
- Conducting routine machinery inspections for defects, safe operation, and protective gear use.
- Monitoring inventory of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment. Initiate reordering ahead of needs.
- Preparing work schedules, assigning tasks, and ensuring attendance records comply with company policies.
- Ensuring compliance and effectiveness of safety policies and procedures by developing and reviewing safety programs, such as Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
- Identifying process gaps and managing corrective action plans for maintenance and reliability.
- Managing work order creation, tracking, filing, assigning team members, and verifying completion.
- Coordinating periodic or scheduled equipment shutdowns with other departments.
- Obtaining quotes and scoping out projects to handle RFQs.
- Ensuring all maintenance records are accurate, maintained, and readily accessible
- Assisting with preparing area and records for SQF audit readiness.
- Assisting with fire, mock disaster, and product recall drills.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Oversee day-to-day activities of direct reports in line with department goals.
- Understand and consistently apply all applicable local and regulatory guidelines.
- Communicate and establish clear goals and deliverables for direct reports and the department.
- Adhere to approved budgets in meeting department goals.
- Provide ongoing, constructive feedback for all assigned staff.
- Handle employee discipline according to company policy.
Education, Experience, and Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, mechanical engineering, or related field.
- At least 5 years of supervisory experience.
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in mining, light industrial, salt, or food industries, purchasing, and packaging.
- Strong knowledge of bulk solids handling equipment in corrosive environments.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint).
- Proficient in SAP or other Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
Preferred/Plus
- Maintenance & Reliability experience
- Prior DEQ, EPA, Virginia Energy, FDA, and SQF experience highly preferred.
- Packaging plant experience highly preferred
- PLC troubleshooting experience
- Heavy mobile equipment experience
- Familiar with principles of reliability-centered maintenance preferred.
- Formal training in predictive maintenance technologies
- Certified maintenance reliability professional (CMRP) certification
- Experience with industrial equipment, instrumentation, and electrical systems.
Core Skills:
- Language: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, drawings, project specifications, contracts, and procedure manuals; write routine reports; complete log sheets; and maintain required project documentation and paperwork.
- Mathematics: Ability to calculate figures and amounts related to budgets, project costs, inventory, production, schedules, quantities, measurements, and performance metrics.
- Reasoning: Ability to define problems, collect and evaluate data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, follow written and verbal instructions, and make sound recommendations that support safe and effective project execution.
Competencies:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following core competencies:
- Accountability: Takes ownership of results; follows through on commitments; and holds self and others to established standards.
- Big Picture Thinking: Understands how daily decisions impact safety, quality, cost, and service; prioritizes work to meet overall business objectives.
- Communicates Effectively: Shares information clearly and respectfully; listens for understanding; and escalates issues appropriately.
- Continuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve safety, quality, and productivity; supports standard work; and participates in problem-solving.
- Customer Focus: Delivers quality product and service; meets commitments; and maintains a sense of urgency to support customer needs.
- Growth Mindset: Seeks feedback; learns from mistakes; and pursues training and development opportunities.
- Initiative: Takes appropriate action without being asked; identifies and addresses issues proactively; and supports others as needed.
Physical Requirements:
- Occasionally ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, etc.
- Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Constantly required standing, walking, handling, and reaching with hands and arms.
- Constantly use the wrist, hands, and fingers to manipulate small objects and write legibly.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Constantly exchange information by speaking accurately, loudly, or quickly, conveying detailed instructions.
- Constantly assess the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.
- Constantly remain stationary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
- Constantly move about to accomplish tasks or move from one worksite to another, including tight and confined spaces.
- Constantly operate machinery or power tools.
- Constantly operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment, including but not limited to forklifts, trucks, pedals, buttons, levers, and cranks.
- Occasional exposure to low temperatures.
- Occasional exposure to high temperatures.
- Occasional exposure to outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind.
- Constant exposure to noisy environments.
- Constant exposure to hazardous conditions (high traffic/hoisting/lifting/welding/electricity).
- Occasional exposure to small or enclosed spaces.
- Constant exposure to adverse environmental conditions is expected (rain, snow, heat, and dust)
- Constantly lift, move, push, or pull up to 20 pounds at a time.
- Occasionally lift, move, push, or pull up to 50 pounds at a time.
- Hearing abilities include hearing, understanding, and distinguishing speech or other sounds (e.g., in person, by telephone, and other remote devices, machinery alarms, or warning signals).
- Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Constantly wear or use prescribed protective equipment while working.
- Constantly able to move throughout the facility and warehouse, which includes stairs.
- Occasional travel - up to 3%.
- Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8-Hour Shift. Occasional weekends
Organization (For Managers and Supervisors Only)
Positions Reporting Directly to this Position
- Maintenance Mechanics
- I & E Technician
- Welder/Fitter
- Maintenance Planner
- Reliability Clerk
Other Requirements:
Must be able to complete and pass post-offer checks, including, but not limited to, background, drug, references, and education.