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Maintenance Area Manager

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company • Danville, VA 24541 • Posted 8 days ago

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In-person • Full-time • Mid Level Manager

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The Maintenance Area Manager at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is responsible for managing unionized hourly maintenance professionals, providing supervision, leadership, and technical guidance in equipment repair, modification, and problem-solving activities to improve equipment reliability performance. This role involves managing the performance of the maintenance crew in terms of parts' costs, labor costs (including overtime), downtime costs, and response times.

Responsibilities

  • Provide maintenance knowledge and specialized experience to diagnose and develop solutions to equipment breakdowns.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise in the areas of mechanical maintenance and electronic diagnostics, repair, and reliability.
  • Coordinate with Shift Operations Managers, Business Center Managers, Maintenance team members and other support elements, as required, to meet maintenance requirements while simultaneously supporting Production Needs.
  • Prioritize and allocate maintenance resources, to include personnel, parts and dollars, to achieve the greatest maintenance reliability while meeting production requirements.
  • Provide guidance, direction, instructions and, if needed, corrective discipline, to maintenance associates.
  • Teach, develop and mentor Maintenance Skill Trades associates to provide a greater breadth and depth of 1st echelon maintenance response.
  • Determine maintenance competency gaps and coordinate resources to overcome the deficiencies.
  • Ensure all team member activities comply with EHS compliance directives.
  • Lead adherence of all procedures, audits, practices, and standard work within the operation.
  • Promote safety in every task.
  • Manage labor and maintenance costs to stay within budget and labor agreement provisions.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree or 6 years of relevant experience.
  • One (1) year experience in production manufacturing process and equipment.

Preferred

  • Bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline.
  • Knowledge of Production/Maintenance team structure, operations and requirements.
  • Familiarization with budget/cost management.
  • Demonstrated excellence in establishing/maintaining communications and interpersonal relationships.
  • Strong technical experience in at least one engineering discipline.

About The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Goodyear Tires is a well-known tire manufacturer operating globally. The company produces and sells a variety of tires for cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, and airplanes. They also offer retreading services for commercial truck tires and other rubber, chemical, and synthetic products.

Full Job Description

Requisition ID: 122527

Sponsorship Available: No

Relocation Assistance Available: No

**Goodyear. More Driven.**

**About the Position** :

To manage unionized hourly maintenance professionals on a crew/shift with supervision, leadership and technical guidance in equipment repair, modification and problem solving activities to improve equipment reliability performance. To manage the performance of the maintenance crew involving parts' costs, labor costs (incl. overtime), downtime costs and response times.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

+ Provide maintenance knowledge and specialized experience to diagnose and develop solutions to equipment breakdowns.

+ Provide Subject Matter Expertise in the areas of mechanical maintenance and electronic diagnostics, repair and reliability.

+ Coordinate with Shift Operations Managers, Business Center Managers, Maintenance team members and other support elements, as required, to meet maintenance requirements while simultaneously supporting Production Needs.

+ Prioritize and allocate maintenance resources, to include personnel, parts and dollars, to achieve the greatest maintenance reliability while meeting production requirements.

+ Provide guidance, direction, instructions and, if needed, corrective discipline, to maintenance associates.

+ Teach, develop and mentor Maintenance Skill Trades associates to provide a greater breadth and depth of 1st echelon maintenance response.

+ Determine maintenance competency gaps and coordinate resources to overcome the deficiencies.

+ Ensure all team member activities comply with EHS compliance directives.

+ Lead adherence of all procedures, audits, practices, and standard work within the operation.

+ Promote safety in every task.

+ Manage labor and maintenance costs to stay within budget and labor agreement provisions.

**Required Education and Experience:**

+ Bachelor's Degree or 6 years of relevant experience.

+ One (1) year experience in production manufacturing process and equipment.

**Desired Skills and Abilities:**

+ Bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline desired.

+ Knowledge of Production/Maintenance team structure, operations and requirements.

+ Familiarization with budget/cost management.

+ Demonstrated excellence in establishing/maintaining communications and interpersonal relationships.

+ Strong technical experience in at least one engineering discipline.

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 71,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to .

Goodyear is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you need reasonable accommodation to complete the online application, or any other part of the employment process, please contact the Goodyear Candidate Care Line at 330.796.4500.

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