Job Description

Work Environment:

This position is based full-time at the Shelbyville, IN manufacturing facility, with regular presence required on the production floor across all shifts, including periodic off-shift, weekend, and holiday coverage to support a 24/7 operation. The plant environment includes exposure to manufacturing conditions typical of automotive glass processing, including heat (tempering/furnace areas), noise, glass handling, forklift and overhead crane traffic, and use of personal protective equipment (safety glasses, hearing protection, cut-resistant gloves, steel-toed footwear) in designated areas. The role requires the physical ability to walk, stand, and move throughout the facility for extended periods, climb stairs/platforms, and occasionally lift up to 25 lbs. Office time is spent in a standard plant administration setting.

Our Culture:

At NSG Group, collaboration sits at the heart of how we work. We strive for excellence in everything we do, empowering our colleagues to deliver quality and innovation while being given the support to find balance. From sharing expertise with our global colleagues to celebrating team successes, we create an environment where everyone can succeed. This strong, supportive culture drives progress and reinforces our position as a global leader in glass.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, plan and execute all Maintenance operations.
• Provide safe, reliable, ergonomic systems and machines.
• Ensure that all personnel reporting to this position carry on with their responsibilities in a safe and professional manner.
• Manage departmental budget, developing strategies to continually improve costs
• Ensure personnel in this area are kept at the proper competency level through development, apprenticeship, coaching, etc.
• Ensure that all production – related equipment in the plant is maintained in a state of repair, in order to achieve efficiency and effectiveness with proper uptime, yields and throughput.
• Work with engineering department to ensure new equipment meets maintenance requirements.
• Utilize engineering resources when plant issues require a higher level of intervention.
• Leads and manages a reliability centered maintenance (RCM) system to ensure optimum equipment reliability and process effectiveness.
• Audits preventative/predictive inspections and programs that support RCM to ensure effectiveness and continuous improvement compliance.
• Participates in team analysis for problem solving of major breakdowns.
• Manages the daily maintenance and shutdown activities within budgeted dollars, manning and material resources.
• Standardize and maintain across all lines best workmanship best practices.
• To instigate studies and actions to overcome technical downtime problems, to reduce waste and improve team performance.
• Lead and manage the maintenance department toward a total preventive maintenance program to enhance link between maintenance and production.
• Communicate effectively with employees at all levels to ensure matters of mutual concern are addressed and resolved.
• Ensure employees are provided appropriate guidance, counseling, or recognition on matters related to job performance and absenteeism. Maintain constructive and candid relationships by addressing issues in a timely manner.
• Direct and coordinate problem solving activities and continuous improvement activities.

• Management to ensure that the spare parts meet the engineering standards, updating engineering standards as required. Reducing spare part inventory by parts planning through preventive maintenance work orders.
• Initiate capex plans to ensure that these meet business needs.
• Application of RCM analysis to the commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that this introduction into the production facility is handled efficiently and within minimum disruption.
• All other duties as assigned by manager.

Top 3 Competencies Needed for Success in the Role:

• Influential – Builds rapport and makes a positive and credible impact
• Customer Focused – Actively seeks to understand internal and external customer needs and ensures solutions, practices and procedures are designed to assure customer satisfaction
• Passion for Excellence – Takes personal responsibility and ownership for achieving results and objectives

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or technically related field.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt communication style to interact with a wide variety of people.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and organize objectives and targets to meet deadlines.
• 7 to 10 years manufacturing experience in the areas of engineering, supervision and production management.
• Minimum 5 years experience successfully supervising people in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with reliability centered maintenance: Management of CMMS, Pdm, PM, TPM.
• Strong in results oriented, adaptable, standards driven, developing, influential and informative competencies.
• Dynamic individual who leads by example.
• Flexible, understands there is more than one way to accomplish a goal.
• Must be able to work as part of a team and have the determination to succeed in a challenging environment.
• Must be a self-starter and be able to work towards project objectives with minimal supervision.

Qualifications Desired:

• Five years of maintenance management experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt training
• Strong in analytical, innovative and strategic competencies

Salary Range depending on experience - $117,000+ (Potential Manager Bonus @ 20%)

Core Hours: Day Shift hours - flexible start time - 7am-9am - Monday/Friday

We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package, which includes 401k, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, company paid holidays, paid vacations, and education assistance

The Salary Range posted represents Pilkington North America’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible compensation at the time of the posting. Individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, etc.

NSG Group/Pilkington is an equal opportunity employer; M/F/D/V encouraged to apply. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin. Applicants have the option to confidentially self-identify or not self-identify when applying.