| Location | Saltville, Virginia |
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.