Preventive Maintenance Head Jobs

Overview

Lafarge has an opportunity for a Preventative Maintenance Head at our Cement Plant located in Exshaw Alberta.

The mission of the Preventive Maintenance Head is to contribute to reach long term reliability of the equipment and installations in the plant by implementing the appropriate preventive maintenance / condition monitoring / predictive strategies and actions at the lowest optimum cost and in compliance with the Health & Safety regulations. In addition, the incumbent will proactively identify problem areas, lead investigation of the causes of downtime and promote elimination of reliability issues.

This is about more than just the job – Lafarge is looking for people willing to relocate within commuting distance of the Exshaw plant. This is an opportunity to enjoy an outstanding quality of life in a gorgeous and family friendly area of Alberta. We are seeking people who are ready to settle into a lifestyle that offers outstanding outdoor recreation opportunities and stable, long term employment. Most of our people live in Canmore and Cochrane. Many commute from Calgary and Airdrie as well. Many of our retirees have 30+ years of employment with Lafarge.

Responsibilities

Operational:

• Leads and participate in RCAs for accident/near miss events and reliability related investigations. Deliver technical assistance to the department as required.
• Setup and continuously improves the preventive maintenance plans in cooperation with Production Manager, Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance Heads/Coordinator and Capex department.
• Support the Maintenance Manager in the elaboration and control of the maintenance budget, ensuring planning and follow-up of costs. Lead planning for all foreseeable operations (weekly, master, shutdown).
• Remains abreast of predictive technologies, identify potential applications, conducting evaluation, recommending implementation strategies when warranted.
• Define and implement the equipment’s preventive and predictive maintenance strategies and as result determine the corrective maintenance actions to assure long term and reliable functioning of equipment and installations.
• Prepares cost estimates and provide project management for corrective actions and maintenance improvement initiatives.
• Supports equipment troubleshooting and identify design modifications as required to reduce maintenance costs, improve reliability and maintainability.
• Assess equipment condition and defines the replacement strategy considering reliability and cost expectations.
• Record equipment history and trend results of condition monitoring tasks to identify needs of maintenance actions well in advance to reduce risk of unplanned downtime.
• Contribute to NWC optimization by identifying critical parts (based on risk assessment and implementation of preventive maintenance routines on critical equipment) and establishing optimal stock levels of spare parts (through FMEA). Define equipment and component replacement strategy based on systematic risk evaluation.
• Communicate and implement regulations, company goals, local permits, policies and procedures; optimize the internal processes and structures. Supervise personnel to apply them consistently and ensure ISO compliance. Respect MAC standard; follow up weekly MAC targets (KPIs).
• Ensure that a specific inspection and lubrication plan covering all plant equipment is in place and reviewed regularly.
• Schedule preventive maintenance work orders and ensure that inspections are effectively conducted to account for findings and executed according to plan.
• Supervising contractor’s activities in all areas of plant maintenance as required.

Personnel:

• Ensure that the PTA process for the team is in place (including succession and retention plans) and follow up implementation of related actions (including mitigation actions to avoid losing people.)
• Provides input to the training requirements of PPM personnel.
• Manage and motivate its team to attain expected performance, ethics and safe behaviours.
• Ensuring competencies and skills development according to technical innovations, plant or personal needs. Train and coach the maintenance team on preventive maintenance and maintenance best practices.
• Provide on-the-spot guidance and formal training as required.
• Ensure that annual and midyear performance interviews are done for all my subordinates and IDPs and that training plans are in place.
• Handle complaints in a professional and proactive manner.

Administrative:

• Assist in development, execution and control of departmental annual budget.
• Ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standards (ASTM, CSA, MDQ, Internal targets and limits.)
• Documents maintenance performance indicators, analyzes trends, develops and implements improvement strategies.
• Concerning to his activities and authority ensures compliance with all policies, procedures, license requirements and applicable laws (E.g.: opacity incident reporting, water effluent sampling. CKD handling and waste disposal.)
• Assist in the management of lubricants inventory and maintenance spare parts, through detailed analysis of spare part needs, makes recommendations for stock parameters to procurement.
• Assist Maintenance Manager in setting departmental objectives.
• Assist in preparation of the mechanical maintenance budget, compile and analyze the long-term maintenance needs for the plant.
• Provide the Maintenance team up to date with the main results of inspections, equipment condition trends, and developing risks.

Safety Leadership:

• Report on accidents/incidents assuring follow-up as per the Exshaw procedures.
• Displays safety leadership by ensuring safe practices by co-workers, employees and contractors in all areas of his responsibility and managing accountability.
• Compliance of all safety policies, procedures and applicable laws.

Relationship with Other Jobs:

• Reports to the Maintenance Manager.
• Has eight (8) direct reports.

Plant Characteristics:

• Storage: Prehomo and clinker with auto stacking and reclaiming.
• Burning: Two precalciner kilns (2400 tpd and 4200 tpd, respectively)
• Shipping: Cement by truck and rail
• Three quarries: Limestone, Shale and Sandstone
• Clinker – AASHTO, HS and OWG
• Finish Grinding: Two closed circuit ball mills, plus One 250 tph vertical cement mill.
• Raw Grinding: Two 155 tph closed circuit ball mills, plus One 345 tph vertical roller mill.
• 1,400,000 tonnes of cement per year. Capacity of 2,400,000 tonnes.
• Crushing: 1350 tph primary / secondary crusher c/w screening.
• Products:
• 1,300,000 tonnes of clinker per year currently. Capacity of 2,000,000 tonnes.
• Cement – GU, HS, OWG, HE.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. In the absence of this, a Technologist Diploma with significant experience in the industry would be required. Professional Engineer (P.Eng) preferred.
• Must be proficient with SAP.
• 2+ years of supervisory experience at a minimum
• Strong, hands-on experience with lubrication, vibrational analysis, and hydrolics is required
• Knowledge and experience with Root Cause Analysis
• Flexibility with working hours and ability to manage stress, to provide assistance and to encourage the maintenance team in critical situations.
• Knowledge of federal and provincial safety standards.

Skills:

• Strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Strong mechanical aptitude.
• Must work well with others.
• Ability to formulate and ensure completion of plans.
• Must be fair and consistent.
• Strong management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and evaluate.
• Must work well under pressure.

As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.