Maintenance Manager

Great opportunity to work with a global multinational Animal Health Organisation
- Excellent training curriculum in place with opportunities to learn. Role based at Upper Hutt manufacturing site
- Use your equipment expertise and knowledge of maintenance processes to support the maintenance team at both Upper Hutt sites

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational, continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation.

**Position Overview -**

The primary responsibility of the Maintenance Manager is to lead the engineering routine maintenance and equipment /facility breakdown service to maximize plant output while ensuring best overall cost, customer satisfaction, safety and regulatory compliance for the Animal Health New Zealand business. Of critical importance to the successful execution of this role is:

- Maximising plant uptime
- Maintaining services for the site
- Developing and strengthening the maintenance team
- Developing a strong safety culture within the maintenance team and supporting site safety culture
- Participating as a key stakeholder in site expansion works
- Strong collaboration with site Capital Projects, Production, Quality, EHS and BTS managers
- Providing advice and technical support to Manufacturing + Engineering Manager
- Developing and streamlining maintenance documentation practices in accordance with GMP requirements
- Improve efficiencies to ensure the site can meet future maintenance requirements as new equipment is installed

The Maintenance Manager sits within the Global Animal Health Manufacturing organization and reports to the Engineering Manager.

**What will you do**:
**Delivery of all Engineering Preventive Maintenance**
- Ensure all preventative maintenance is completed
- Ensure all maintenance related calibrations are completed
- Ensure all Instrumentation and Primary Standards are calibrated accurately
- Ensure breakdowns are minimized through effective preventive maintenance
- Ensure equipment life cycle is correct and documented and recommendations made to for an equipment replacement program
- Ensure preventive maintenance program is aligned with the plant output schedule minimizing any impact on plant output

**Delivery of all Engineering Breakdown Maintenance**
- Ensure general engineering assistance (breakdown, problem resolution and root cause analysis) including input for improvement and development work, for production and general Site.
- Ensure all breakdowns and faults are recorded and logged in the engineering database
- Ensure all equipment failures are logged to maintenance calendar for Work Order allocation
- Produce monthly report on Breakdown and equipment status data against agreed KPIs

**Delivery of Site Services Support**:

- Ensure compliance with building codes
- Manage site security and fire protection
- Oversee energy management for the sites
- Provide café, cleaning, laundry and grounds maintenance services for sites
- Ensure full operation and maintenance of utilities for sites

**Provide Leadership for Direct Reports**:

- Actively develop staff through coaching and training
- Drive business results through the performance management system
- Maintain an effective Call-Out system to provide 24/7 coverage for emergencies
- Develop and manage a shift schedule to support extended production hours
- Ensure that Contractors are inducted and supervised on site
- Facilitate and support Engineering team meetings

**Operate Within the Maintenance Cost Centre Budget**:

- Prepare cost estimates and capital requests as necessary
- Process and approve invoices in a timely manner
- Seek and eliminate unnecessary costs

**Ensure Regulatory Compliance and a focus on Quality Processes**:

- Ensure compliance to all regulatory requirements
- Ensure that there is a full set of up-to-date SOPs including those for preventative maintenance
- Continual focus on improvement
- Input into Qualification and Operational Qualification documents as required
- Ensure all validation, calibration and maintenance check sheets are complete in a timely manner
- Ensure all staff are trained and that training is recorded and up to date
- Ensuring all statutory documents for Pressure Vessels, Pressure Equipment and pipework are kept up to date
- Support internal and external audits

**Support Capital Projects**:

- Provide input into prioritization of projects
- Provide input into possible solutions and concepts
- Provide input to site master planning and defining overall site strategies on key infrastructure.
- Ensure that there is participation in Design Reviews (incl constructability, maintenance, safety in design) and HAZOPS to cover maintenance requirements
- Review RFC requests for