Mechanical Maintenance Manager

• Pixelle Specialty Solutions is the largest specialty paper company in North America, with fully integrated pulp and paper operations in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, and a coating operation in Fremont, Ohio. Supported by an experienced product development team, Pixelle excels in designing customized solutions that help customers bring new products to market. With a long history of leadership in the paper industry, Pixelle delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of specialty papers to help you meet today's challenging demands.

The Mechanical Maintenance Manager manages the Spring Grove Mill's Mechanical shops effectively encompassing the performance of preventative maintenance, repair, and installation of equipment in the assigned area of responsibility and other related duties as assigned. He/she ensures responsive and proactive maintenance support to all plant operations partners by implementing sound work management processes. He/she is responsible for contributing to departmental budgeting, professional and technical development of his/her assigned salaried and hourly associates.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Champions safety in every aspect of the position
• Makes safety awareness part of everyday communications (Hazard Identification and Risk Reduction)
• Assure the implementation and completion of accident investigation / corrective action steps
• Actively participates in Leader Standard Work (Risk of the Shift, Daily Review of Production/Equipment
• Performance, Maintenance Daily Briefing, Etc.)
• Represents the Maintenance Department in daily interactions with operational asset teams
• Identifies and completes projects as assigned
• Maintains effective relationships with Maintenance Shops to promote Best Practices
• Champions Precision Work – Sets Expectations and Audits for Compliance
• Provides mentoring, training, and coaching as required
• Proactive in: Driving continuous improvement through PM/PdM (Reliability Improvements), 6S, workflow
• process, and other mill continuous improvement efforts
• Enforces/Coaches the required discipline within the Root Cause Failure Analysis System
• Ensures Environmental System process awareness and compliance.
• Must maintain effective working relationships with operations, other maintenance personnel, vendors,
• contractors, and engineers
• Performs purchasing duties as needed through effective and efficient interface with Storeroom and
• Procurement personnel
• Writes and reviews purchase requisitions, reviews, and approves job invoices, authority to stock, audits
• invoices and VMI activities and manages spend in the maintenance department within approved budgets
• Maintains needed staffing levels and skill sets
• Responsible for succession planning
• Input to all annual outages
• Input to Capex process
• Reviews work order backlog reports and actively engages in reducing the backlog · Recommends the replacement or addition of equipment to minimize maintenance costs and downtime · Understands and administers company policy
• Evaluates and manages the collection of job feedback to improve future work · Must demonstrate effective communication skills throughout the organization
• Executes Continuous Improvement programs, acts as a change agent
• Follows a leadership team approach to resolving shop floor issues
• Reviews and accepts all other duties as assigned
• Reviews and continuously upgrades employee skills to meet the demands of new technology which are a critical part of this applicant's responsibility and the cross functional learning to elevate the craft
• Work closely with engineering, production, and other departments, at all levels of supervision, throughout the plant in making estimates, determining priorities, scheduling, and managing shop personnel
• Must be able to manage deadlines, variable workloads, and be on call 24-hours when needed
• Maintaining, developing, and monitoring mill systems, including ISO requirements
• Attends and participates in the appropriate training for the use of fire extinguishing equipment and notification procedures should a small, containable fire ignite in the work area
• Serves as a member of the Pixelle Industrial Fire Team to mitigate risk and escalation of fires within the facility and provides assistance required by your craft

• SAP, SAP-PM or other software experience is preferred 
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member
• Knowledge of safety hazards and appropriate precautions applicable to work assignments
• Ability to wear respirator safety equipment
• Ability to wear protective clothing as required by prevailing conditions
• Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogs, reports and manuals.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Pennsylvania driver's license

Competitive healthcare benefit package and 401K match.