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• Promoting and selling the full product line to all existing customers.
• Developing a key sales prospect list, establishing relationships, and selling new customers.
• Maintaining appropriate sales coverage in your territory.
• Delivering and maintaining appropriate levels of service, maintenance, and communications for 6 - 10 accounts within your area.
• Installing and programming chemical dosing equipment to interface with the customers' washing equipment.
• Leading the work of planning and executing new installations and/or conversions in your territory.
• Maintaining all company provided equipment in proper working condition.
• Operating within the assigned expense budget.
• Collection of past due accounts receivable, where applicable.
• Eliminating rush orders of products.
• Submitting all reports in a timely manner.

Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree from four-year College/University in Business, Engineering, Mechanical, or related field and 1-2 years' industry related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and technical/mechanical skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, Internet and Order processing software.
• Ability to act quickly, accurately and handle a fast-paced work environment.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal.

Description

The company is hiring a Maintenance Manager for its chemical manufacturing site in Chester, PA. This role is responsible for leading daily maintenance operations, supporting plant reliability, managing maintenance priorities, overseeing a team of maintenance personnel, coordinating contractors, and supporting capital projects in a high-tempo manufacturing environment.

This is a strong opportunity for a proven maintenance leader from a chemical, process, industrial, or manufacturing environment who is comfortable balancing shop-floor leadership, planning, budgeting, troubleshooting support, contractor coordination, safety, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily maintenance activities for the Chester, PA site.
• Manage, coach, and support a team of 4 direct reports.
• Support maintenance scheduling, work planning, troubleshooting, prioritization, and execution.
• Manage small to medium capital projects in the $300K-$700K range.
• Support capital budgets, repair budgets, and maintenance spending.
• Coordinate and manage contractors working onsite.
• Provide diagnostic and troubleshooting support to maintenance and operations teams.
• Spend time on the shop floor with maintenance and operations personnel during troubleshooting, improvement activities, and supervision.
• Promote a strong safety, environmental, regulatory, quality, productivity, cost control, and asset management culture.
• Support compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations.
• Communicate plant maintenance issues, concerns, and updates to the Plant Manager and site leadership.
• Build strong working relationships with maintenance personnel, operations, contractors, and plant leadership.
• Support continuous improvement efforts and help execute plant improvement projects.
• Align maintenance practices with reliability-based asset management goals.
• Monitor and maintain the integrity of plant assets and protective systems.

Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 7 or more years of experience in a chemical manufacturing, process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, or plant maintenance environment.
• Maintenance leadership, maintenance supervision, or maintenance management experience.
• Experience leading mechanics, technicians, contractors, or maintenance personnel.
• Strong ability to organize, prioritize, and manage maintenance work in a high-tempo plant environment.
• Experience with maintenance budgeting, repair budgets, project budgets, or capital project support.
• Working knowledge of plant equipment, mechanical systems, and process manufacturing operations.
• Familiarity with equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, reactors, filtration systems, flow measurement equipment, conveyors, mills, and bulk solid or powder material transfer systems.
• Ability to read, interpret, or work with technical documentation such as PFDs, P&IDs, equipment layouts, equipment lists, manuals, and drawings.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to hold people accountable, push back when needed, and lead through competing priorities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with plant personnel, contractors, and leadership.
• Strong safety mindset and ability to lead by example in a manufacturing environment.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Technical degree, STEM degree, trade school, or equivalent technical training.
• Chemical manufacturing experience.
• Experience managing capital projects in the $300K-$700K range.
• Experience with reliability-based asset management systems.
• Experience with CMMS, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, maintenance planning, and maintenance scheduling.
• Familiarity with OSHA regulations.
• Experience managing contractors in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement projects.
• Military maintenance leadership experience, especially when paired with manufacturing, industrial, utilities, mechanical, or process equipment experience.

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