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Maintenance Manager

2 months ago


Rockford, United States Ring Container Technologies Full time

Job Purpose

To use your unique talents, experience, skills, education and enthusiasm to complete the Operations team and to recognize that your contribution is essential to the vision of Ring Container Technologies.


Key Responsibilities and Duties

1. Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all equipment to meet or exceed company established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) expectations and customer quality expectations.

  • Monitor equipment OEE for inefficiencies and recommend and/or make necessary improvements.
  • Develop improvements for safer and more efficient operations.
  • Ensure all machines guards are in place and functional.
  • Ensure all unsafe conditions are corrected immediately.
  • Ensure Lock out / Tag out policy is followed.
  • Troubleshoot all major problems.


2. Responsible for continuing/implementing the Ring Family Culture in the facility.

  • Employees are the first priority, production is secondary.
  • Welcome employees to the plant every day inquiring about their personal lives and showing that Ring cares about our employees.
  • Manage by walking around during the shift initiating conversations with questions regarding the well-being of the employee.
  • Catch someone doing something well and praise. Recognize their efforts.
  • Understand that all employees are people and all of us have challenges. Search for the reason behind the issue, actively listen and resolve to the benefit of all.


3. Responsible for leading and supporting employee engagement initiatives.

  • Conduct focused walks semi-weekly through the plant to engage with the employees.
  • Utilizing active listening skills, ask probing questions that encourage employee input on issues or opportunities related to safety, quality, performance, goals, scheduling, teamwork, etc.,
  • Note opportunities for improvement and potential solutions based on employee input.
  • Develop strategies that all for employee led teams to implement or ‘try’
  • Provide ongoing feedback to employee led teams and support efforts that lead to improved results, even during times of initial failure.
  • Celebrate wins and recognize employees participating on successful teams.


4. Educate plant personnel on safe and proper operation of machinery, ensuring all employees receive proper and timely training.

  • Develop problem solving and troubleshooting skills in maintenance personnel.


5. Maintain accurate and sufficient parts inventory while meeting the established budget.

  • Order and maintain min/max inventory levels of repair and/or replacement parts.


6. Schedule and coordinate appropriate downtime to effectively perform preventative maintenance on all equipment.

  • Ensure equipment is clean and in ‘showroom condition’.
  • Pro-active in addressing machine inefficiencies during preventative maintenance.


7. Maintain Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) system.

  • Maintain equipment files, vendor records, quotes, manuals, repair records, etc.
  • Record maintenance and repair costs; control costs through use of appropriate repair and/or purchasing methods.


8. Coordinate with quality personnel to ensure machines are manufacturing products that exceed customer quality expectations.


9. Schedule and coordinate all Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) events with maintenance and production personnel.

  • Provide necessary training to all employees.
  • Establish and maintain TPM standards on all equipment.
  • Schedule events to ensure equipment meets TPM standards.


10. Maintain employee documentation and schedule labor to meet budget requirements.

  • Maintain performance evaluations, attendance records and review time cards.
  • Direct the work of employees to correct improper work habits and/or behavior; reward good job performance and take corrective action as required.


11. Communicate problems, progress reports and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance and production personnel.


12. May perform the duties of Production Supervisor as needed or required.


13. Support the development, implementation, maintenance and ongoing improvement of food safety, food defense, and quality systems to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local government regulatory food safety requirements and Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) or British Retail Consortium (BRC) standards.

  • Ensure maintenance employees adhere to food safety, food defense, and prerequisite programs (such as security, pest control, foreign material control, allergen control, chemical control, etc.) as required.
  • Ensure all maintenance work is performed in a food-safe manner to prevent contamination and that housekeeping duties are performed and documented according to the Master Cleaning Schedule.
  • Foster a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement which proactively recognizes and addresses deficiencies.
  • Ensure that sufficient maintenance budget is created each year to maintain a high standard of quality and food safety of the facility structure and all equipment.


Committee Member of the following:

  1. Management Staff
  2. TPM Committee
  3. Safety Committee
  4. Problem Solving Team


Key Job Performance Measures

  • Effective utilization of CMMS system
  • Monitoring equipment downtime-scheduled versus unscheduled
  • Maintaining maintenance expenses within assigned budget
  • Reconciliation of all generated PM’s in CMMS system

Experience, Educational and Technical Qualifications

Our Maintenance Manager must have a minimum of 5 years supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment and a 4 year technical degree and/or equivalent military experience. He/she must have the ability to provide technical guidance through past experience and industry knowledge. He/she should possess strong people skills, leadership qualities, managerial abilities, a sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation and the desire and focus to improve the business.

Abilities Required

· Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly.

· Must be able to take direction and work well with others.

· Must be able to work under the stress of deadlines.

· Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately.

· Must be able to react to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned.


Ring Container Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Ring to apply recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation and professional development practices without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or certain classifications based on genetic information.


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