Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments – at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for Maintenance & Reliability activities at Rittman plant. Develops the Plant Reliability goals and strategy, with heavy focus on effectively influencing employees across departments, crafts and disciplines to achieve reliability goals and objectives. Develops and leads initiatives focused on building a reliability-based culture.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Accountable for providing leadership in support of the company's Zero Harm goal of achieving an injury-free workplace.
• Responsible for buildings and grounds activities.
• Managing contractors as necessary.
• Makes reliability recommendations to process and reliability engineers based on data analysis.
• Implements critical care plans (PMs, predictive, critical equipment).
• Creates and participates in reliability improvement initiatives providing guidance to the maintenance personnel.
• Ensures effective equipment troubleshooting, including root causes identification and action plan implementation.
• Oversees PDM work.
• Reports and explains budget variances.
• Performs other related duties, as required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field or at least 10 years in salary maintenance
• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance field
• 1-2 years maintenance manager/supervisor experience
• Proficient in MS Office
• SAP experience (preferred)

At Morton Salt, we work best when we work as a team, when we treat one another with dignity and respect, and value the unique contributions of others. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, national origin, sex, religion, color, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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