Maintenance Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Maintenance Manager to join our team at AGCO. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the safe and cost-effective maintenance, repair, and replacement of plant equipment, systems, and ensuring maximum production quantity and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
• Oversees and maintains repairs maintenance shop equipment and facilities.
• Establishes and maintains a computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related problems.
• Ensures that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates regularly with all maintenance technicians, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
• Maintains and updates operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Ensures that all maintenance technicians are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures.
• Monitors operation of plant equipment, systems. Initiates and carries out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs utilizing the current continuous improvement system within the plant.
• Tracks, analyzes, and improves key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
• Participate in objective setting, plan development and performance review of plant performance.
• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance technicians.
• Communicates directly with the operations department to coordinate maintenance and repair work in process areas.
• Implements programs and procedures required to ensure plant cleanliness and 5S compliance plant-wide and within own department.
• Assists with site capital planning and implementing plant improvements and expansions.
• Report all near-misses, incidents, injuries, illnesses, including mobile equipment or property damage.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Prefer LEAN certification with working knowledge of implementing lean in a maintenance organization or within a manufacturing plant.
• Working knowledge of the mechanical and electrical aspects of plant-based maintenance; skilled in TPM and Reliability Engineering are preferred.
• Extensive experience with repairs and maintenance of manufacturing equipment in a steel fabrication environment as well as the management and maintenance of the plant systems and physical facilities.