Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading, technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops, produces, and markets a broad range of mineral and mineral-based products, related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including household and personal care, paper, foundry, steel, construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.2 billion in 2023.

MTI focuses on two major segments – Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. 

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay, commensurate with experience
• Health/Dental/Vision plans
• 401k company match
• Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability & Long-Term Disability
• Educational Assistance
• Employee Assistance Plan

Job Summary:

The Maintenance Manager is a member of the Lucerne management team. This position is responsible for leading the maintenance and reliability processes in a manner that will have a direct impact on profitability, efficiency, cost management, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, and innovation. Key activities for this position include leading maintenance practices that will focus on reaching operational excellence, developing and implementing strategies to increase the skill level across our maintenance resources, and enhancing our maintenance capabilities to deliver improved equipment reliability decreasing our repair and maintenance costs.  The position supervises a team and is process, project, and improvement focused.   

Position: Maintenance Reliability Manager

Location: USA | Lucerne Valley, CA

Compensation: approx. $130k-$140k annually

This is considered a safety sensitive position therefore will be subject to random drug testing as required.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategies that accelerate and improve current maintenance practices and processes to improve equipment performance, reliability and lower repair costs
• Leverage company subject matter experience/experts to advance current maintenance and reliability efforts through enhanced communication and best practice sharing by driving their application globally
• Develop and deliver comprehensive maintenance and reliability tactical training to maintenance resources worldwide
• Identify required equipment and process upgrades and effectively manage associated projects
• Partner with worldwide operations group to coordinate maintenance activities in support of operational excellence.  Provide leadership in a Lean Manufacturing environment; consistently driving out waste.
• Coordinate with cross-functional departments (Engineering, R&D, Supply Chain, etc) to ensure operational effectiveness in new plants and expansions, and life cycle cost considerations in global equipment procurement activities.
• Supervise maintenance department personnel with a commitment to their development through performance management, individualized development plans/opportunities, and visibility.
• Coordinate planned maintenance and connectivity with Maintenance Technicians.  Regularly respond with advice to maintenance/equipment related questions, ensure access to up-to-date maintenance/operating procedures, and facilitate strong team communications activities. 

• Establish maintain, and leverage value from a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for tracking work orders, planned/predictive maintenance, spare parts inventory/sharing, MRO management, and maintenance history of plant equipment on a global basis.
• Analyze operational data and equipment performance history to deliver improvements in critical maintenance related metrics including unplanned downtime, PM compliance, schedule compliance, MeanTime-Between-Failures, and maintenance related costs.
• Initiate, implement, and manage the plant maintenance program based on best practices in the chemical/mineral industry, with an emphasis on planning/scheduling, preventive/predictive maintenance, and safety, health & environmental policies and procedures.

OE/Lean

• Actively participates in sustainable improvement processes and utilizes OE tools, such as 5S, Kaizen, Daily Management Control, Standard Work, Problem Solving, among others.
  • Works with the Engineering Manager to ensure alignment with corporate TPM vision, precision maintenance, and preventive maintenance methodology
  • Incorporates Lean Manufacturing principles and tools such as 5S, Kaizen, TPM, Standard Work and Kanban to drive change and generate cost savings.

Other Duties and Responsibilities 

• Performs other duties as required

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 

• 5 years related experience providing supervision and technical support in manufacturing maintenance.
• Hands-on plant experience installing, operating and maintaining wet and dry chemical or minerals processing equipment, maintenance management systems, preventive and predictive maintenance is required.
• Candidates with strong Lean\TPM experience are highly preferred.
• Mechanical and electrical aptitude to train, audit and monitor work in plant process areas is required.
• Must have a mature understanding of Operation Excellence, including the use of Lean Manufacturing tools such as 5S, Kaizen, TPM, Standard Work and Kanban.
• Must have expert communication skills, experience in working with multiple projects at once, and must be willing to support global business objectives (multiple time zones, foreign countries).

Critical to Success Factors:

• Results based leadership style
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• Tenacity and energy in leading change toward a high performing work environment
• Communicates effectively to direct and motivate others
• Strong problem solving and project management skills

Working Conditions:  

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment, moving around the office as needed, walking, sitting at a desk, and using office equipment, including but not limited to a personal computer, fax, copier, scanner and phone.  Regular contact with individuals internal and external to the organization occurs via various methods of communication.  On an infrequent basis, there may be exposure to plant production areas, which may include varying temperatures, exposure to outside weather conditions as well as loud noise from equipment and dust from production processes.  Exposure to plant areas requires the use of appropriate safety equipment.  Personal protective equipment is available for employee use in these circumstances.

Work Hours: The schedule is typically the day shift.  However, employee must have ability to work the shift/number of hours in which duties need to be accomplished, including overtime, holidays and weekends, if necessary.

Safety Training: 

A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is to be provided New Employee Training.  This will include online training as well as instruction from a qualified individual in a classroom type of training setting.   

Safety Equipment:  

Safety equipment is available for use if a situation arises where it becomes required or desired by the employee.

Company Overview: 

MTI focuses on two major segments – Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. 

Our Consumer & Specialties segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumer-driven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineral-to-market products that serve consumer-oriented end markets including Pet Care, Personal Care, Fabric Care, Edible Oil, and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineral-based technologies serving Paper, Packaging, Sealants & Adhesives, Paint & Coatings, Ceramics, Plastics, Food & Pharmaceutical markets.

Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers’ manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our High-Temperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our High-Temperature Technologies product line offers specially-formulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing, water purification, remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation, Water Purification, and Infrastructure.

MTI provides a business environment and promotes a culture that encourages all employees to contribute to our success. We have long been committed to the recruitment and advancement of the most talented and qualified people. We recognize that MTI’s ability to provide the highest caliber of products and services is enhanced by a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities and countries in which we work.

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