Regional Maintenance Manager

Regional Maintenance Manager

Job Summary:  Regional Maintenance Manager, this role will have facilities and project management experience with additional health and safety / environmental skills to deliver strategic and technical support to the business pertaining to our responsibilities to customers.  This position requires a minimum of 5 years’ experience managing teams, technical processes, and projects.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop a high-performance team of supervisors and individual contributors, a strong technical problem-solving ability, excellent project management skills, and an internal motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced, and often ambiguous environment

• Develop viable contingency plans considering staffing, expertise, parts, and materials.

• Drive talent development within team to expand their careers through formalized training via conferences, workshops, and mentoring

• Analyze current Material Handling Systems (MHS) and Customer needs to determine cost-effective improvement. 

• Engage with facilities to minimize failures and improve reliability though root cause analysis.

• Driving Maintenance Best Practices including innovating, documenting, improving work methods, standardizing, providing a safe work environment and requiring safe work practices, training, commissioning equipment, collecting, measuring, and analyzing key performance indicators to improve processes and services.

• Responsible for planning, implementation, and management of all material handling systems to include system modifications or enhancements.

• Work as the end user's material handling team leader with LPS own operational planning team including Site Maintenance Managers, and develop working relationships with material handling system, equipment suppliers, and customers. 

• Meet budget and fiscal responsibilities as specified in Customer Contracts while ensuring superior performance and service reliability. 

• Must approach the material handling needs of the company with an entrepreneurial spirit 

• Responsible for recruiting Site Managers and Maintenance Technician positions. 

• Perform any other task or assignment as deemed necessary by the organization. 

• Maintain and contribute to a safe work environment throughout all facilities by adhering to policies and procedures as outlined in the Company Safety Program. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

• Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years Facilities Management experience

• Five years’ work experience specifically related to project management, budget responsibility and execution of time schedules 

• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple complex tasks in a timely manner. 

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills. 

• Strong knowledge of Mechanical / Electrical engineering methods, tools, and measurements. 

• Ability to read and apply information presented in equipment manuals, drawings, schematics, and diagram in support of equipment installation, maintenance, and repair.

•  PLC/PC program knowledge and troubleshooting experience

• Industrial electrical hands-on experience and troubleshooting, including 480V 3-phase, 110 VAC, and 24 VDC systems

• Advanced troubleshooting skills with PCs and industrial controls devices/networking

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, relating technical issues to business leadership

• Customer service oriented

• Ability to travel up to 85%.

Preferred requirements

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills

• Demonstrated leadership ability, with the ability to engage and motivate others

• Good reasoning, conflict-management, and analytical and problem-solving skills

Travel Requirements:  Generally, this position may require up to 85% travel to various LPS Sites and may include overnight stays. Typically, travel is within Canada but occasionally may require some international travel. 

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person assigned to this position. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.