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Mars UK • USA-Ohio-Lewisburg | United States of America

Area Maintenance Lead

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Job Description

Job Description:

The Area Maintenance Lead (AML) is a critical member of the Area Leadership Team. The AML is the owner for their area and is responsible for reducing maintenances losses by optimizing proactive maintenance and eliminating unplanned maintenance breakdowns. The core responsibilities of the AML is Mx Planning for their respective area, Break Down Elimination (root cause analysis), and trending reliability performance for their area. This is done by coordinating job plans (PMs, corrective work etc.) with the Reliability & Maintenance Managers, and Breakdown Elimination (BDE) processes including leading the RCA process, FMOS escalation, execution of corrective actions across their area. Additionally, the AML serves as the spokesperson for the maintenance group within the Area Leadership Team – the Triad. The AML is a technical expert in the assigned area and uses their technical and leadership skills to influence and guide the team utilizing area data.

What are we looking for?

Minimum

  • High school degree or equivalent
  • 5+ years experience in Maintenance or technical fields
  • Experience in Mx Planning
  • Must have strong computer skills with MS Office and Maintenance CMMS (SAP, Maximio, eMaint, FIIX)
  • Ability to travel up to 5%

Preferred

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
  • CMRP, CMRT, MRM, CMP certifications
  • Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Development

What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Responsible for leading all maintenance activities and resources in an assigned plant or designated area, flawlessly executing planned maintenance shutdowns, leading all area technical continuous improvements and minimizing daily downtime
  • Leads RCA process, determine root causes for production time lost and execute corrective actions to eliminate issues and continuously improve the area.
  • Leads PM and predictive maintenance programs, line maintenance shutdowns, and run-time preventative maintenance
  • Leads equipment rebuild process and validate results, including manage external contractors for activities in the area.
  • Directly responsible for effective and efficient utilization of all maintenance resources allocated to the area; primary ownership of area maintenance budget
  • Responsible to develop and maintain criticality assessment and parts for area.
  • Supports shift based technicians with technical information and expertise in area
  • Owns Defect Management Daily Management System (DMS) and Breakdown Elimination DMS.
  • Sets the priorities and creates the job plans, aligning to with the scheduler.
  • Owns results in reducing reliability losses for Unplanned and Planned Maintenance for area.
  • Builds technical capability of Operating Teams and Equipment Owners to deliver overall line results thru coaching and training.

What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

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4,000 In the UK

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