Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager Job Highlights

Company Profile

STERIS helps Customers to create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions. The company is a leading provider of products and services that meet the needs of growth areas within Healthcare: procedures, devices, vaccines, and biologics.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Maintenance Manager who will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a successful maintenance program that includes maintenance, repair, and improvement of facility equipment, machinery, buildings, and related safety systems.

This shall include the responsibility of establishing and maintaining the department’s CMMS (computerized maintenance management system).

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a Bachelor’s Degree obtained from a college/university

Work Experience

• Possess a minimum of 4 years of experience in an industrial maintenance environment including a working knowledge of pneumatics, welding, mechanics, hydraulics, electrical, PLCs, and electronic applications.
• A minimum of 2 years of supervisory or management experience

Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyzes unplanned downtime, develops corrective actions, and establishes a proactive plan using the department’s CMMS to reduce or eliminate future occurrences and promote continuous improvement. Evaluates the effectiveness of, and make necessary adjustments to, regularly scheduled preventative maintenance tasks.
• Determine the appropriate schedule for maintenance staff according to plant demands. Maintain this schedule to ensure appropriate 7/24/365 operation and emergency response coverage. Potentially acting as the emergency response coordinator.
• Directs maintenance activities and support for 7/24/365 operations. Respond to emergency maintenance calls as needed and must be available for contact on troubleshooting or issues that cannot be resolved by Maintenance staff.
• Establishes and promotes the Preventive Maintenance Program for the facility, and reviews effectiveness.
• Maintain, develop and implement training programs to meet the needs of the Maintenance Technicians including but not limited to safety procedures, LOTO and electrical safety, equipment operation, applicable work mechanical and technical skills knowledge, and abilities by attending workshops, reviewing trade publications and participates in training others to conduct minor, basic repairs to equipment, machinery, etc. Addresses any training deficiency as noted.
• Must be proficient in the requirements of the Senior Maintenance Technician, Project Technician, and Maintenance Technician positions and shall be required to provide training to the technicians in these roles.
• Plans and coordinates resources for any unplanned repairs of the equipment. Ensures all paperwork for planned and unplanned equipment maintenance is completed properly and entered into the department’s CMMS and filed as per audit requirements.
• Selects, conduct interviews, orients, trains, and evaluates new maintenance staff.
• Strives for continuous improvement by analyzing new or alternative ways to improve operations; incorporates staff recommendations into the analysis; responds to audit activities in a constructive manner and uses findings to improve operations using predictive and preventive maintenance practices. Recommends skills improvement training for self and department staff that will provide the skill set needed to improve equipment performance.
• Writes and conducts performance evaluations of existing staff and communicates opportunities for growth monthly, quarterly, and annually. Build performance by implementing growth tasks for individual staff members and monitoring progress.

Other Duties-

• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures,
• Analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. Negotiates for the best terms possible with suppliers. Recommends and manages the planning, justification, and implementation of facility-driven capital improvement projects and
• Contributes to a team effort by performing in accordance with all STERIS policies, GMP, Lean principles, and other directives;
• Ensures compliance with local and federal regulations (OSHA, FDA, ISO, EPA, NRC, NEC). Establish and manage relationships with local emergency services (fire, local law enforcement, building security,
• Promotes a team environment based on a successful Safety, Quality, and Productivity program to meet the established goals set forth by the company. Actively engaged in the management of site safety program. To include development and training on related safety procedures. Enforces safety practices such as Lockout/Tagout and proper use of PPE by all trained employees. Supply maintenance personnel with all PPE required to achieve a safe work environment.
• Protects company confidential information by properly storing, retrieving, and disseminating such information only to those authorized.
• Supports engineering on major capital improvement projects to maintain asset value as needs arise. Plans and implements Equipment or safety-related continuous improvement projects.
• Supports the directives and decisions of higher-level management and performs other duties as assigned.
• Works with facility leadership and maintenance staff to address audit findings.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English.
• Ability to read blueprints and schematics.
• Ability to supervise outside contractors.
• Ability to work independently under general guidelines and supervision.
• Able to adapt to changing duties and responsibilities.
• Able to influence people in opinions, attitudes, or judgments; to generalize, evaluate and make decisions in stressful situations.
• Above average organizing and analyzing skills and Level 2 math skills (four basic arithmetic functions in all units of measurement, decimals ratios, rates, and percentages) to determine organizationally, Customer, and regulatory problems and formulate corrective action plans; attention to detail.
• Effective interpersonal skills as demonstrated through prior management experience.
• Normal hearing range sufficient to hear alarms, bells, horns, etc.
• Requires computer literacy to include word processing, spreadsheet, and software capabilities.

Benefits/Perks

• 401(k) with a company match
• Annual merit and bonus plans
• Competitive pay
• Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid vacation time and paid holidays
• Training and coaching
• Tuition assistance

Employer’s Statement

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company is committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred, and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.