Maintenance Manager - Waukegan

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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Job Purpose

Provide cost effective maintenance and reliability services with technical support to operations and maintenance organizations in order to positively impact safety, quality, capacity, efficiency, and mechanical reliability.

Key Responsibilities

HSE
• Responsible for safe execution of work permits.
• Promote an environment that achieves incident free performance through diligent proactive safety efforts and job safety planning.
• Responsible for ensuring the safe maintenance of plant and equipment in line within internal and regulatory requirements (site and corporate policies/procedures).
• Ensures compliance to PSM legislation regarding responsibilities for the Mechanical Integrity Program.
• Assists safety audits and inspections and completes actions on time.
• Accepts responsibility for team’s housekeeping standards within area.
• Verifies approved MOCs for changes prior work.
• Highlights safety concerns for new projects and installations.
• Complete JSAs and toolbox talks with mechanics.
• Participate in Accident and Incident Investigations and analysis.
• Follow rotating equipment activities (PMs, re-builds, new installations)

Operations
• Review daily priorities and properly communicate issues. Promotes a “protect the production schedule” culture
• Managing daily maintenance execution in compliance with the weekly schedule; monitoring and updating daily schedule: ensuring technicians are allocated planned tasks if schedule load gaps develop
• Key participant in the Area Maintenance Team meetings to prepare weekly work schedule and discuss key Maintenance activities / plans
• Develop, implement, and manage reliability management systems for rotating equipment that lead to improved safety, reduced manufacturing costs, improve equipment reliability and improved process output and quality.
• Review equipment files to document life cycle assessments for rotating equipment.
• Elimination of Chronic Rotating Equipment Reliability Issues
• Provide technical assistance and support the operating and maintenance departments to improve reliability, using applicable codes and regulations as starting point.
- Contact for outside mechanical seal support.
- Contact for pump supplier support.
- Assist with MRAs as they relate to rotating assets.
• Lead or help define rotating equipment PMs
• Handle any Urgent/Emergencies jobs that arise.
• Coordinate the carryover of work with overtime or to the next shift.
• Assist area personnel in troubleshooting equipment and process problems.
• Assist Planner and Production Representative in coordination of Annual Turnaround work.
• Managing execution of maintenance reliability projects
• Reviews equipment files to perform and document life cycle assessments for fixed equipment. Add asset information to the maintenance systems

People
• Responsible for maintenance crews for the site
• Ensure appropriate skill and capability mix of technicians across the function
• Manage, coach and develop maintenance personnel, holding them accountable for delivery of results and supporting mutually agreed development needs
• Communicate technical path forward for issues to maintenance engineers, maintenance, and operations for execution.

Quality
• Technical design review of inspection and test plans and installation details for new rotating equipment or replacements.
• Monitor and report KPI for rotating equipment.

Financial
• Budget and manage maintenance spendings.
• Provide capital planning with information to facilitate replacement or repair options before the process incurs unplanned downtime.
• Capture production and maintenance savings and opportunities of resolved issues.

Job Requirements

• Formal Engineering Degree Level or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a mechanical engineer with relevant experience on fixed tanks and rotating equipment.
• Significant experience with reliability and maintenance principles such as PM and PdM approaches, TPM, RCM.
• Strong knowledge and application of fabrication, inspection, and repair requirements for rotating equipment per API, ASME, NBIC and state/local regulations.
• Good communication skills, ability to summarize technical issues to the plant floor.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Lotus Notes.
• Knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Strong background knowledge of operating equipment and department processes including PLC programming & PanelView and equipment controls programming.
• Mechanical and electrical course work provide pipefitting, machine repair, hydraulic, welding and electrical knowledge.
• Ability to recruit, train and motivate personnel in order to balance staffing strength with profitability and growth.

Compensation & Benefit

Base salary range for this role is: $97,000 to $110,000. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

401K retirement savings with 6% company match
Medical insurance with HSA
Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D benefits
Generous vacation, sick and holiday pay
Progression (pay-for-skill) pay plans
Short & Long term disability
Paid Parental leave after 1 year
Career growth opportunities
Active Diversity & Inclusion Networks
Employee referral bonus
Employee appreciation days

Competencies

Accepting Direction

Accepting Responsibility

Acquiring Information

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 49522

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