Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Job title: Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Job Purpose To lead and oversee all engineering and maintenance activities, ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of equipment, facilities, and infrastructure. The Engineering & Maintenance Manager is responsible for developing and implementing maintenance strategies, managing capital projects, optimizing asset performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to support operational and business objectives.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in objective setting, plan development and performance review of plant performance.
• Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices in the heavy axle industry, with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
• Establishes and maintains a computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Ensures that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates regularly with all maintenance technicians, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communications concerning maintenance issues.
• Monitors operation of plant equipment and systems.
• Reviews the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Tracks, analyzes and improves key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance technicians.
• Communicates directly with the Operations departments to coordinate maintenance and repair work in process areas.
• Develop new or modify existing methods to manufacture products ensuring that such methods meet quality and production standards as well as health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Plan, prioritize and budget manufacturing engineering and continuous improvement projects for the plant.
• Supervise and lead responsible salari