Maintenance Manager - County Westmeath

Maintenance Manager - County Westmeath.

Job Summary:
To lead and manage all maintenance activities across the site, ensuring optimal performance of equipment and tooling in alignment with production demands. This includes preventative maintenance planning, spare parts inventory management, contractor coordination, and continuous improvement of equipment reliability and team performance.

Key duties:

• Prioritise the maintenance and repairs of company equipment and tooling in conjunction with production requirements.
• Oversee management of spare parts inventory, ensuring adequate spare parts for critical equipment.
• Nominating, supervising and coordinating sub-contractors for work relating to maintenance. Communicating and liaising with sub-contractors, ensuring all work is completed in accordance with their contracts. Sign-off and verification of completion of sub-contractor’s work.
• Supervision of all employees within the department, monitoring performance and quality of workmanship as well as dealing with any HR issues that may arise.
• Optimize equipment according to standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality, ensuring the achievement of all Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
• Develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out, plan in missed maintenance activities, and lead the team to deliver effectively.
• Develop clear accountability for maintenance material costs combined with a strategy to manage expenditure.
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of the products and materials needed and advise others of any impact.
• Develop, implement and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) for each area of responsibility.
• Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department.
• Ensure that the tooling and equipment operate in accordance with any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of staff and visitors.
• Effectively manage the technical support personnel to achieve the required levels of plant and equipment uptime.
• Manage the maintenance team to ensure that the preventative and predictive maintenance activities are completed in full and on time and this system is managed effectively.
• Manage the Technical files (soft and hard copies) for all plant and equipment covering all electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, controls and software elements.
• Ensure a backup copy of all plant and equipment software is kept i.e. PLC programs, Robotic programs.
• Develop the maintenance personnel to be able to carry out software diagnosis of equipment i.e. reading PLC ladder logic.
• Ensure all software is available to read all machine programs and update when new equipment comes online.
• Manage all data relating to plant and equipment uptime and generate daily graphs showing performance to target.
• Develop a culture of multi-skilling and cross-training throughout all roles within each maintenance shift.

Interested applicants should have:
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in a similar role
• Strong people management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage to deadlines