Project Lead, Maintenance - Columbus

Job summary

We are seeking a talented and motivated Project Lead, Maintenance to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible to Coordinate and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, including project managers, production engineers, and technicians.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, including project managers, production engineers, and technicians.
• Lead Continuous Improvement (CI) through packaging process/material optimization (Life-Cycle Management) and the implementation of innovative new technologies/materials.
• Provide service and technical leadership, coordinate work activities, and establish priorities within a team to ensure customer service needs are met for the manufacturing, site and/or packaging equipment.
• Review work of other PRT/MRT's and provide feedback to performance.
• Ensure reliable manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility equipment by troubleshooting, adjusting, repairing, rebuilding, fabricating, predicting failures, and replacing components and coordinating vendor support to ensure equipment performance is reliable and meets expectations with root cause analysis of failures with support from Engineer and/or Optimizer.
• Perform preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant is in operation, which may include off-shift periods and weekends.
• Actively participate in, and sometimes leads, equipment FATs to support production engineering efforts and support installation and training of new equipment to the facility.
• Guide other MRT's in and lead team initiatives such as maintenance best practice initiatives, root cause analysis and performance center (PC) meetings to identify and resolve manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility issues on a real-time basis.
• Trains and mentors other MRT's in technical skills and abilities.
• Provides input/suggestions to procedures, policies, work instructions and task sheets relating to maintenance and equipment certification.
• Ensures team has required tools, supplies, and work areas necessary for completing required maintenance tasks in area of responsibility in accordance with 5S+1 principles to ensure a safe and efficient work area and to eliminate clutter and foreign particles that could potentially damage equipment or product.
• Resolves issues and improves operations by making necessary changes to support continuous improvement by completing work on time and driving to improve work processes and procedures relative to manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility equipment.
• Initiates, leads, and works with Engineers, Project Manager and Vendors on projects and improvement initiatives to ensure equipment meets site standards, this may include support for Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) or Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and related travel.
• Initiates and executes change controls and test protocols in support of the qualification of new and existing equipment.
• Reviews project designs and make recommendations for equipment accessibility and reliability.
• Leads the project team to communicate results and facilitates proper hand-off from project team to long-term process and/or equipment owners.
• Influences the project layout, design, schedule, part ordering, and installation.
• Serves as key contact for equipment projects (< $500K) within area of responsibility and represent operations interest in capital projects > $500K.
• Monitors the manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility areas and related equipment to identify problems or opportunities and identifies root cause and remediation of failures either independently or with support of others for repairs or process improvements to efficiency and/or reliability of manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility equipment.
• Communicates regularly with management and customers regarding the state of facility and utility equipment, status of work, known problems, and improvement initiatives.
• Effectively interacts across functions, departments, and teams to achieve site goals.

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