Foundry Maintenance Manager
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Job Title: Foundry Maintenance ManagerLocation: Hodges, South CarolinaJob Type: Full TimeRole Summary: The Maintenance Manager supervises maintenance activities for equipment, facilities, and infrastructure in the foundry. The manager will communicatewith upper management, peers, contractors, and technicians to ensure maintenance goals are reached.Responsibilities

• Evaluate the current workforce skillset, plans and implements a maintenance training program.
• Collaborates with engineers, partners, and suppliers to meet business goals in accordance with the sustainable use of facilities and budget demands.
• Constructs an efficient facility maintenance team and guides training sessions to ensure quality performance.
• Evaluates the operation's effectiveness with current utilities and equipment; provides appropriate solutions to challenges and risks.
• Oversees inspections, repairs and updates of facilities and relevant operational activities; maintains order at the facility.

Degree Requirement

• Engineering Degree or equivalent experience desired

What skills you have to be successful:

• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Expert Experience:

• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Budgeting:

• Knowledge of organization's budget process; ability to apply policies and practices for planning and administering a budget.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Applies established organizational practices in budgeting.
• Under guidance, produces budget reports of planned vs. actual expenses with variances explained.
• Supplies supporting information and justification for major line items.
• Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations.
• Uses budgeting and charge-back practices within own area.

Effectiveness Measurement:

• Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
• Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
• Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
• Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
• Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

Problem Solving:

• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Manufacturing Equipment:

• Knowledge of the hydraulic, electrical, and mechanical used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update, and store them.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Describes the roles and responsibilities of equipment vendors and own staff.
• Explains where and how to obtain more equipment-specific information.
• Lists basic aspects of routine and preventive maintenance.
• Identifies uses and features of diverse types of manufacturing equipment.

Facilities Management:

• Knowledge of processes, methodologies and techniques used to manage facilities; ability to handle the full spectrum of activities for managing and maintaining physical facilities and infrastructure.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Works with the installation, maintenance, and upkeep for a large or multiple facilities.
• Monitors environmental, safety and equipment requirements and conditions.
• Participates in the development of change, contingency and back-up or recovery plans.
• Deals effectively with customers and vendor support staff to resolve routine problems.
• Manages space planning processes and establishes requirements for staff and equipment.
• Monitors processes and procedures for developing and maintaining building security to ensure regulatory compliance.