Maintenance Manager - Pactiv Evergreen

Pactiv Evergreen Inc. (NASDAQ: PTVE) is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fresh foodservice and food merchandising products and fresh beverage cartons in North America and certain international markets. It supplies its products to a broad and diversified mix of companies, including full service restaurants and quick service restaurants, foodservice distributors, supermarkets, grocery and healthy eating retailers, other food stores, food and beverage producers, food packers and food processors. To learn more about the company, please go to the company website at pactivevergreen.com.

The plant was acquired by Pactiv in 2003, manufactures PET and Polypropylene Lids & ESL Trays, and has approximately 180 employees.  The Conyers plant was awarded Pactiv safety plant of the year 2018, Foodservice BU Environmental plant of the year 2019.

The Maintenance Manager is a maintenance position that supports safe and cost-effective manufacturing operations by competently scheduling, planning, and ensuring effective completion/documentation of proactive, predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance activities on all of the plant’s significant equipment assets. Qualified candidates must possess a thorough understanding of industrial manufacturing operations, enterprise resource planning, equipment maintenance requirements, and computerized maintenance connection system (MC). 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive a zero EHS incident culture and immediately correct unsafe conditions or employee actions with 100% compliance to Pactiv’s established safety and environmental policies, programs, and procedures.
• Effectively staff and manage the plant’s maintenance department employees.  Includes objective setting, providing daily direction and feedback as appropriate in addition to managing employee performance, morale, training/certification, and OSHA regulatory compliance (lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, ladder safety, electrical safety, machine shop/tool safety, and powered vehicle safety).
• Ownership of MC asset hierarchy and preventive maintenance requirements.  Includes all facilities, production/support equipment.
• Daily ownership of maintenance connection work order flow, scheduling, and documentation.  Includes assigning work orders to available maintenance resources, reviewing completions status, and closing work orders.
• Interact with all maintenance connection work requesters as required to clarify work order scope to help ensure proper and timely work order completion. 
• Work closely with plant engineering, maintenance, production, scheduling, contractors, and MRO storeroom as required to plan, schedule, and execute all maintenance work on a 24/7 schedule to maximize equipment reliability, OEE, and minimize cost/waste.  Includes proactive, predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance.
• Accurately estimate times and costs of maintenance work, except shift/emergency repairs, to include labor and parts/materials costs.
• Assist in planning and execution of capital projects and equipment upgrades.
• Run a weekly preventative maintenance scheduling meeting to include plant engineering, maintenance, production, and scheduling resources as required to ensure effectiveness.
• Attend all Tier II and Tier IV meetings and utilize root cause analysis problem solving techniques to drive continuous improvement.
• Work in a fast paced, collaborative, and lean manufacturing environment that encourages all employee to identify and permanently eliminate waste through effective use of lean principles.
• Effectively drive PEP’s compliance through completion of assigned tasks.

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated experience effectively managing hourly employees is required.  Includes objective setting, providing daily direction and feedback as appropriate in addition to managing employee performance, morale, training/certification, and OSHA regulatory compliance (lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, ladder safety, electrical safety, machine shop/tool safety, and powered vehicle safety).
• Demonstrated experience working with a CMMS such as Maintenance Connection, MP2, IMaint, etc. is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working with SAP is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency working with MS Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Word) is required.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills with all levels of the organization including contractors and vendors is required.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to schedule, manage, and complete multiple work assignments and projects concurrently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated proficiency reading/interpreting mechanical drawings is preferred.
• Must be able to acquire and maintain a lift truck license within 60 days of hire/promotion.
• Able to safely lift up to 50 pounds.
• Able to safely work in a moderately conditioned, industrial process manufacturing environment.

Education and/or Experience Requirements

•  Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical Field or equivalent work experience required.
• 5+ years of maintenance experience working with industrial production and/or support equipment such as electromechanical drive trains, compressed air, hydraulics, vacuum, and process water systems is required.

Pactiv Evergreen is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.  Pactiv Evergreen is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics or statuses protected by law.  For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please call (847) 482-4320 or email TalentHelp@Pactiv.com.

 All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines and applicable laws.

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