Maintenance Manager

Arconic Aluminum Extrusion serves the global aerospace and automotive markets with the most specialized engineering, highest quality, and the greatest breadth and depth of forgings and extrusions. Our vertically integrated capabilities and deep materials science expertise in aluminum and titanium structural casting is taking the industry to new heights. AEX is a business unit of Arconic (NYSE: ARNC).

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager will be a member of Arconic Operations Lead Team in Chandler, AZ. 

This position is accountable for:

• Reporting to the Maintenance and Engineering Manager, this position is responsible to set expectations for and manage the Lafayette Arconic Engineering and Facilities Maintenance Departments to support the plant and corporation strategic goals and objectives.

• A change agent capable of increasing proactive maintenance in a matrix organizational structure. Optimize Lafayette maintenance resources and use of work order system.

• Promoting and leading the development and application of predictive maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Total Productive Maintenance and control/capability of critical processes.

• Maximizing the utilization of our internal machine shop and contracting out, when necessary, in accordance with union contract.

• Participating in the identification, recruitment, training, appraising and professional development of engineering and maintenance resources.

Essential Functions: The Maintenance Manager within AEX requires technical and interpersonal skills essential to teamwork.  Major duties include but are not limited to: 

• Developing policies and setting expectations to ensure that EHS objectives, activities, and plans are achieved.
• Leading and participating in the development of an interdependent culture and an incident free workplace.
• Leading and being directly accountable for the Facilities Maintenance groups.
• Developing strategic direction for the facility and managing the implementation of the plans including Capital planning and execution, optimization of internal resources, and improved overall plantwide OEE
• Ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organization in an efficient and direct method
• Ability to develop and foster team-based problem solving throughout the facility
• Ability to manage multiple projects and activities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or equivalent 
• 10 years minimum of maintenance experience with a strong technical background
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which requires U.S. person status. ITAR defines U.S. person as an U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. Green Card Holder), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Additional Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree in Business 
• 10-15 years of maintenance experience with a strong technical background
• High degree of people skills to motivate and influence others 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Thorough understanding of Maintenance and Engineering practices
• Supervisory/management experience in a unionized environment 
• Experience in Oracle data base 
• Thorough knowledge of Extrusion and Casting processes and standard practices with experience in various technical assignments

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