Mgr, Maintenance Manager

Who we are For more than 40 years, Covanta has been at the forefront of sustainable materials management, providing companies and communities world-class waste and resource solutions.
Through our diverse and scalable full-service capabilities, we’re leading the charge to a carbon-negative future—reducing, reusing, recycling and reimagining waste for the benefit of both people and planet.
Our differentiator comes from our vast ecosystem of technology, facilities, and partnerships, trusted by the world’s largest organizations to solve their most pressing environmental challenges, and achieve their most ambitious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
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By embracing the unique talents, perspectives, and experiences of our employees, we cultivate an environment that embraces teamwork, encourages open dialogue, and provides opportunities for growth.
About the role MAINTENANCE MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION Highlights of Covanta’s Competitive Total Rewards package: · Day 1 – Health Care Benefits, includes dental and vision · 401K with 7% Company match · 160 Hrs PTO / 10 paid holidays · Salary range: 128,133 – 169,843 + Relo + Signing Bonus · Exempt/On-Site ABOUT COVANTA: At Covanta, the work we do is more than just a job.
It’s a commitment to environmental problem-solving and sustainable progress.
We do all that we can to safeguard the future of our people, our planet and our shared prosperity.
We are a world leader in providing sustainable waste and energy solutions.
Our modern Waste-to-Energy and material processing facilities provide municipalities and businesses sustainable alternatives to landfill disposal that help build a circular economy and use waste to generate clean, renewable electricity.
Building a safer, smarter world is no simple task, but it is something we can achieve together.
Join us in protecting tomorrow.
Covanta is seeking a Maintenance Manager to join our Covanta Honolulu, HI Waste-to-Energy Facility! This position will report directly to the Facility Manager.
POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Maintenance Manager provides functional leadership and direction to the maintenance team.
The individual must be a proven leader who can provide vision and leadership to achieve daily, yearly and long-term asset reliability goals through application of Maintenance best practices site wide.
The individual must have a good working knowledge of maintenance, reliability, mechanical integrity, and quality assurance best practices.
This person must have the organizational capability to work across multiple functions, systems, and be able to communicate well with operators, mechanics, peers and leadership.
They must be able to lead improvement teams, network with appropriate professional organizations and maintain strong connections to regional and corporate M&R and technical groups.
The position has direct reports including Mechanical Supervisors, Electrical & Instrumentation Supervisor, and Planners.
Goals for the role · Act as a Safety Leader to ensure individual and team Safety remain top priority in the planning and execution of all tasks.
· Work closely with Company Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) personnel targeting zero incidents and continuous improvement of site EHS performance.
· Continuous improvement in maintenance approach, encourage initiatives intended to reduce safety risk, increase productivity and efficiency, reduce maintenance cost.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES · Lead in the promotion of a strong safety and environmental stewardship culture.
Ensure good maintenance & reliability practices are followed.
Contribute with managerial and leadership expertise to events that impact on the safety, health and environmental performance of the site.
· Plan, develop, and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve operations, minimize operating costs, and effect greater utilization of labor and materials.
· Lead the selection, assignment, development, coaching and performance evaluation of the maintenance team.
· Manage Maintenance Shops comprised of both Mechanical and E&I crafts with advanced skills.
· Manage site maintenance attrition forecasting and plan for hiring.
· Develop and maintain a 5-year long-term maintenance plan for the site.
· Maintain a metric dashboard for maintenance that drives improvement and helps prioritize actions.
· Develop self, direct reports, and other leaders and subordinates.
· Develop yearly and monthly maintenance budgets and the activities to ensure alignment and achievement of budgets.
· Develop a strong cost management structure for Maintenance that identifies opportunities to improve our business and provides for short and long-term actions that reduce cost.
· Provide overall leadership and direction for the site Work Management Program (WMP) to be cost competitive by utilizing correct application of best practices.
· Support a Computer Maintenance Management System and other associated tools.
· Provide overall direction and vision for Outage Planning processes and teams that plan and coordinate the implementation shutdowns.
· Achieve the Outages budgets, scopes, and schedules.
· Drive reliability improvements and identify gaps between the reliability goals and plant performance.
· Set expectations for the reliability efforts to develop solutions to repetitive failures through root cause analysis and through preventive and predictive maintenance practices.
· Continue to implement current reliability improvement programs seeking to achieve a more proactive work management process and a stronger relation between the maintenance activities and the business’ cost performance.
· Inspect operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
· Confer with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems, and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: · Waste-to-Energy maintenance experience or a solid background in power or industrial or chemical plant maintenance including a minimum of 5 years supervisor experience to be considered for this position.
· Engineering degree preferred.
· Must be able to identify needs for improvement and implement change.
· Must have knowledge of maintenance budgeting and methodologies.
· Must manage spare parts inventory to optimum levels.
· Good computer skills, able to work with ALM/Peoplesoft, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
· Must possess good knowledge of electrical and instrumentation including the National Electric Code and familiarity with NFPA Arc Flash safety regulations.
· Proficiency in work management processes including planning & scheduling and preventative maintenance.
· Experience planning and leading major maintenance outages.
· Thorough understanding of Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance Practices and systems · Work experience in the design, repairs, maintenance, reliability, failure modes, and/or inspection of chemical process equipment.
· Familiar with reliability tools such as Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) · Solid understanding of Lean, 5S and other reliability process improvements tools to move the organization into a more competitive position.
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds without assistance.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee periodically enters and inspects various plant areas with rotating machinery; is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; precarious places; confined spaces; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock and vibration.
Must be able to work in all locations within the plant, under extremes of hot and cold, and in areas of dust, noise and wet conditions.
Must be able to climb a ladder to access equipment and work from heights using fall protection, lift heavy objects up to 50 lbs.
[with assistance] and other manual labor, such as pushing, pulling, sweeping and shoveling.
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