Maintenance Manager

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**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

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Overview:
The main objective of this role are to develop and maintain best-in-class maintenance program at the cement plant to ensure a high level of availability of all equipment to drive excellent overall equipment efficiency The Maintenance Manager will administer and coordinate the mechanical, electrical, and mobile equipment maintenance activities across the plant. In carrying out the duties of this position, a primary objective is to improve the value of all Company assets at the Brookfield plant through increased reliability at efficient operating costs while allowing the safe operation of the equipment to meet production requirements within budget guidelines. The Maintenance Manager will lead a focused step-change in the plant's reliability performance by implementing improved preventative maintenance processes and developing a world-class overall maintenance program.

As part of the plant management team, the incumbent also contributes to establishing and enforcing policies and procedures concerning the maintenance department and general operations. The incumbent is responsible for developing effective employee relations, competent subordinates, and collaborative relations between the maintenance employees and other departments.

**Responsibilities**:
**Health and Safety**:

- Follows and ensures full compliance with Health & Safety policies and procedures.
- Ensures all own employees and contractors meet Lafarge safety policy requirements. Acts as a role model for safe behaviour and holds the team accountable.

**Operational**:

- Coordinate the preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance of all plant and infrastructure equipment.
- Plans maintenance activities in a way that is compatible with the overall operation of the plant.
- Planning is done across time spans long-term (4 Year Plant Development Plan and budget), mid-term outage planning and short-term (monthly and weekly activities).
- Redress plant emergencies and breakdowns with the appropriate resources.
- Embrace the root cause analysis (RCA) process and actively drive and promote it within the department and plant. Set objectives, guidelines and priorities for the department.
- Report actions and results for his area through monthly activity letters and annual reports.
- Works closely with Procurement to establish sourcing, competitive third-party service contracts, operational supplies and services contracts while managing spare parts inventories.
- Adhere, implement and expand compliance to the group-wide Cement Industrial Framework (CIF) Maintenance program elements.
- Maintain strong relationships with country, regional and global technical performance groups.
- It ensures compliance with all policies, procedures and standards (ASTM, CSA, MQO, internal targets and limits).

**Financial**:

- Provide cost budgeting, cost forecasting and control of department expenditures.
- Maintains a firm overview of spending and planned to spending, interacting closely with the finance team.

**_ Capital Projects_**:

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- Responsible for plant sustaining capital project development and management (Justification, Engineering support, Procurement, Cost Control, etc.) to support overall high ability at the minimum cost.
- Participates in development projects with the plant Project Management team.
- Develop procedures with suppliers to ensure equipment reliability, maximize their service, and minimize the cost and plant inventory.

**People Management**:

- Provides leadership at the daily and weekly operations meetings to identify and resolve reliability issues with plant equipment.
- Develops a staffing plan for the department to ensure adequate hourly and staff personnel levels that meet the current and future needs of the department and plant.
- Ensure the competence and development of department employees (hourly and salaried) by initiating training, coaching, counselling or discipline procedures to respond to items identified in the performance reviews and day-to-day activities.
- Monitor performance of department employees (hourly or salaried) through formal and informal reviews.
- Coordinator all labour issues within the department in compliance with the Collective Agreement. Walks the floor.’
- Takes time to be present in all locations of the operations and to be open to all levels of the organization to communicate concerns.

**Collaboration**:

- Works closely and collaboratively with other departments, Production, Quarry, Process, Quality, and Environment.
- Promotes participation from department employe