About this role
Hiring Manager: Gerard Gutowski
Salary Exempt Position
Company - United Salt Saltville, LLC
Key Responsibilities:
• Promote safety culture through leadership, actions, and championing safety protocols. • Improve reliability and minimize downtime of equipment and facilities through preventative maintenance and repairs. • Coordinate maintenance and repair activities with Operations departments. • Manage maintenance costs to the plant budget. • Guide, supervise, and evaluate the performance of direct reports.
Accountable For:
• Creating a positive work environment and promoting safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Cultivating a culture of constant compliance. • Regular communication with senior management and other departments regarding plant maintenance schedules and issues. • Managing and organizing maintenance and repair of pumps, grinders, mixers, and other machines. • Conducting routine machinery inspections for defects, safe operation, and protective gear use. • Monitoring inventory of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment. Initiate reordering ahead of needs. • Preparing work schedules, assigning tasks, and ensuring attendance records comply with company policies. • Ensuring compliance and effectiveness of safety policies and procedures by developing and reviewing safety programs, such as Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and Job Safety Analysis (JSA). • Identifying process gaps and managing corrective action plans for maintenance and reliability. • Managing work order creation, tracking, filing, assigning team members, and verifying completion. • Coordinating periodic or scheduled equipment shutdowns with other departments. • Obtaining quotes and scoping out projects to handle RFQs. • Ensuring all maintenance records are accurate, maintained, and readily accessible • Assisting with preparing area and records for SQF audit readiness. • Assisting with fire, mock disaster, and product recall drills.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• Oversee day-to-day activities of direct reports in line with department goals. • Understand and consistently apply all applicable local and regulatory guidelines. • Communicate and establish clear goals and deliverables for direct reports and the department. • Adhere to approved budgets in meeting department goals. • Provide ongoing, constructive feedback for all assigned staff. • Handle employee discipline according to company policy.
Education, Experience, and Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mechanical engineering, or related field. • At least 5 years of supervisory experience. • At least 10 years of progressive experience in mining, light industrial, salt, or food industries, purchasing, and packaging. • Strong knowledge of bulk solids handling equipment in corrosive environments. • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint). • Proficient in SAP or other Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
Preferred/Plus • Maintenance & Reliability experience • Prior DEQ, EPA, Virginia Energy, FDA, and SQF experience highly preferred. • Packaging plant experience highly preferred • PLC troubleshooting experience • Heavy mobile equipment experience • Familiar with principles of reliability-centered maintenance preferred. • Formal training in predictive maintenance technologies • Certified maintenance reliability professional (CMRP) certification • Experience with industrial equipment, instrumentation, and electrical systems.
Core Skills: • Language: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, drawings, project specifications, contracts, and procedure manuals; write routine reports; complete log sheets; and maintain required project documentation and paperwork. • Mathematics: Ability to calculate figures and amounts related to budgets, project costs, inventory, production, schedules, quantities, measurements, and performance metrics. • Reasoning: Ability to define problems, collect and evaluate data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, follow written and verbal instructions, and make sound recommendations that support safe and effective project execution.
Competencies:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following core competencies: • Accountability: Takes ownership of results; follows through on commitments; and holds self and others to established standards. • Big Picture Thinking: Understands how daily decisions impact safety, quality, cost, and service; prioritizes work to meet overall business objectives. • Communicates Effectively: Shares information clearly and respectfully; listens for understanding; and escalates issues appropriately. • Continuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve safety, quality, and productivity; supports standard work; and participates in problem-solving. • Customer Focus: Delivers quality product and service; meets commitments; and maintains a sense of urgency to support customer needs. • Growth Mindset: Seeks feedback; learns from mistakes; and pursues training and development opportunities. • Initiative: Takes appropriate action without being asked; identifies and addresses issues proactively; and supports others as needed.
Physical Requirements: • Occasionally ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, etc. • Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. • Constantly required standing, walking, handling, and reaching with hands and arms. • Constantly use the wrist, hands, and fingers to manipulate small objects and write legibly. • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. • Constantly exchange information by speaking accurately, loudly, or quickly, conveying detailed instructions. • Constantly assess the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned. • Constantly remain stationary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. • Constantly move about to accomplish tasks or move from one worksite to another, including tight and confined spaces. • Constantly operate machinery or power tools. • Constantly operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment, including but not limited to forklifts, trucks, pedals, buttons, levers, and cranks. • Occasional exposure to low temperatures. • Occasional exposure to high temperatures. • Occasional exposure to outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind. • Constant exposure to noisy environments. • Constant exposure to hazardous conditions (high traffic/hoisting/lifting/welding/electricity). • Occasional exposure to small or enclosed spaces. • Constant exposure to adverse environmental conditions is expected (rain, snow, heat, and dust) • Constantly lift, move, push, or pull up to 20 pounds at a time. • Occasionally lift, move, push, or pull up to 50 pounds at a time. • Hearing abilities include hearing, understanding, and distinguishing speech or other sounds (e.g., in person, by telephone, and other remote devices, machinery alarms, or warning signals). • Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. • Constantly wear or use prescribed protective equipment while working. • Constantly able to move throughout the facility and warehouse, which includes stairs. • Occasional travel – up to 3%. • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8-Hour Shift. Occasional weekends
Organization (For Managers and Supervisors Only) Positions Reporting Directly to this Position • Maintenance Mechanics • I & E Technician • Welder/Fitter • Maintenance Planner • Reliability Clerk
Other Requirements: Must be able to complete and pass post-offer checks, including, but not limited to, background, drug, references, and education.