Maintenance Manager, Deer Park

Maintenance Manager - Deer Park, NY

The opportunity:

As a Maintenance Manager you will be responsible for providing expertise and leadership to the service and maintenance staff while ensuring the safe maintenance, repair or replacement of WestRock\u2019s plant assets. Your role will also be responsible for driving continuous improvement of plant operations to enable efficient, high-quality production of customer products.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock:

Develop and implement the short- and long-term maintenance strategy to enable operating efficiency in alignment with WestRock\u2019s values

Create Maintenance Department safety goals and plan to ensure a safe work environment

Create an effective Plant Maintenance Program using industry\u2019s best practices to maximize equipment reliability and uptime

Supervise and inspect maintenance work to ensure the most effective, efficient and up-to-date technology and preferred maintenance practices are implemented by craftsmen

Ensure a safe work environment and adherence to all corporate, state and federal safety, health and environmental policies, procedures and regulations by all maintenance staff

Manage and analyze maintenance department KPIs to assess operating efficiency and identify opportunities to drive performance excellence

Negotiate using win-win strategies on behalf of WestRock with the Labor Union representatives on contract issues.

What you need to succeed:

2- year technical degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering

Minimum of 10 - 15 years in industrial maintenance with supervisory experience of maintenance engineers

Adept at problem-solving and identifying root cause to implement preventative methods

Ability to plan and manage a budget

Ability to work within a 24/7 plant operations facility

Be a strategic thinker with the confidence to make decisions which impact safety, uptime and productivity

Ability to coach and develop talent to create a highly productive, safety-conscious team

Strong communication skills with ability to adjust communication style and interact across all levels of the organization

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.