Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Position Purpose : The Maintenance Manager is to provide leadership and guidance to the maintenance team. The Maintenance Manager is a key facility member in our organization highly committed to Process Safety, Environmental Stewardship, and Operational Excellence. 

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Member of facility leadership team. Participate in the development and improvement of the Burnside facility to meet our goals in EHS and Operational Excellence. This includes setting the strategic direction and identifying and implementing key improvements in support of business objectives.
• Improve and sustain Safety, Health, and Environmental performance of the maintenance organization.
• Provide mentoring and guidance for direct reports, and oversee their training and development needs.
• Drive maintenance best practices and continuous improvement efforts to achieve increased efficiency, consistency, and quality. The manager will lead the Maintenance Work Process and champion the utilization and improvements in the SAP system at the Burnside facility.
• Manages the planning, budgeting, and execution of the bi-annual Turnarounds. This includes contracting, cost control, and integration of capital work.
• Responsible and accountable for maintenance spending and cost management including contract services, maintenance labor, overtime, and maintenance materials.
• Responsible for capital budgeting, planning, and execution for small plant capital projects. Support the construction execution of large capital projects at the site working with corporate project engineering.
• Establish strong communications with Manufacturing Operations that ensures the highest level of maintenance coordination and support to the operations.
• Lead incident investigations related to maintenance events and provide insight as required on other incident investigations.
• Manage all contractors and contract services as required by plant projects or maintenance needs.
• Serve as Process Safety Management (PSM) element owner for “Contractor Safety & Performance” and other PSM element roles as deemed appropriate.
• Support and contribute to business & site planning development through interaction with processes including, but not limited to Five-Year Capital Plan, Asset Life Planning (ALP), and Reliability Vulnerabilities Outlook.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor’s degree, from an accredited university (Preferably in Engineering).
• In lieu of specified degree, high school diploma and 10+ years of experience working in chemical or petrochemical operations in maintenance and/or operations.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing facility.
• Experience in PSM covered operation is preferred.
• Experience in job roles requiring HazWoper qualification and HazMat training is preferred.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Experience working with Mechanical Integrity and Engineering Organization to meet quality and installation standards.
• Root Cause investigation and incident investigation experience required.
• SAP Experience and proficiency is preferred.
• Turnaround experience and/or large project management experience is preferred.

Required Certification/Licenses/Training:

• Must possess a current and valid Driver’s license.

Physical Requirements:

• Willingness and capability to don basic personal protective equipment, (i.e., safety shoes, hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, face mask etc) to enter plant areas as needed to perform duties related to these required skills.
• Willing and able to climb stairs, ladders/stools; stand, walk, stoop, bend, kneel, crawl;visual acuity for close work; able to reach overhead; able to hear and respond to alarms.

Additional Information

Benefits: Veolia’s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.