McWane Ductile Ohio - Maintenance & Engineering Management Trainee - McWane Ductile

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Summary:  Candidate will be exposed to leadership and management of plant operations. Through hands-on training, you will learn management oversight for the day-to-day operations and proper functioning of the facility to include Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Production Planning, Human Resources, EH&S, Shipping & Receiving. Learning how the plant controls costs and drives performance while ensuring efficiency, safety, quality throughout the plant is the top priority. This position will teach how Plant Leadership supports and creates processes and activities within functional areas. The candidate will learn how to be a strategic leader, identify process improvement opportunities that drive efficiencies. You will learn how to oversee operational performance to ensure consistent and superior customer service. You will learn how the Management works with the leadership team to build a strong culture that develops employees.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, bend, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell.  The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, extreme heat and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include those listed below.  Other duties may be assigned.  This position is a full-time (minimum 40 hours per week) on-site position.

• Supervision: Directing of personnel activities concerned with production. To include Engineering technology, production methods and procedures, standards, and machine and equipment capabilities and analyzing workforce requirements, performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all maintenance & engineering employees.
• Financial Accounting and Reporting: Budget management for major maintenance accounts, annual shutdown, capital expenditures, and accrued budgets.
• Working with and understanding of Management responsibilities: Production Control, Accounting, Quality Control, Engineering, Environmental, Safety, Human Resources and SPC.
• Coordinating of Department activities: Schedule planned maintenance activities with production schedules. Review and analyze reporting data: Work closely with the Operation Manager and Plant Engineer to determine causes on non-conformity with production specifications and operating or production problems to include variance/financial non-conformance.
• Transparent/Candid communications: Develop collaborative and effective communication with all appropriate parties, develop and implement methods and procedures to eliminate operation problems and improve product quality.
• Plant Policies/Work Rules/Safety Compliance/Union Contract: Effectively know, understand, and evaluate all when making directional decisions for the plant/business.

Activities/Training:

• Maintenance Management
• Schedule and direct maintenance activities for all shifts, weekends, plant shutdowns, and emergency work
• Act as the Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance Manager will provide leadership to the maintenance supervisors and technicians by providing expectations, allocating resources, and providing tools and means for the team to be successful.
• Lead the planning group on work management best practices.
• Work with Operations Manager

• • Understand Manning.
  • Hourly Production Reporting and GAP analysis.

• • Pipe Making Processes.
    • Follow the process flow.
    • Safety meetings/Compliance.
    • Daily reporting.
• Work with Plant Engineer and Plant Accountant.
  • KPI calculations/reporting.
  • GAP analysis for performance and financials.
  • Strategic Planning/Operating.
  • Daily meetings/conference calls.
• Quality Control.
  • Work with QA Manager, Supervisor, and Inspectors.
  • Clear understanding of quality tests, attributes and statistical measurements.
  • Work with QA and CI Managers to understand day to day evaluation of plant quality and compliance to SPC.
    • Ability to assess quality defects and possible areas of cause.
• Work with Inventory Control/Shipping.
  • Understand scheduling/planning process.
    • Customer Orders.
    • Release process.
    • Scheduling Meetings with Operations
    • Customer specific shipping/order specifications.
    • Proper pipe handling for inventories.
• Working with Engineering and Maintenance.
  • Project planning.
  • Monthly budgeted expenses.
  • Maintenance planning/processes
  • Understanding Capital and Accrual allocation
• Working with Human Resources.
  • Plant policies, work rules, safety compliance/reporting and Union contract.
  • Strategic succession planning.
  • New Hire training/onboarding.

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

Reports directly to the Plant Engineer and indirectly to the Maintenance Manager, Controls Manager, or Engineering Manager for each phase of the training program.

Education and/or Experience:   Associates degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology; Bachelor’s degree preferred. Two years in operations role and/or two years in manufacturing.  

Applicants wishing to pursue a Associates degree or a Bachelor’s degree will be considered

Computer Skills:  Must be proficient in using computers and various software programs, including Microsoft Office.