Maintenance Manager

**About Ostara** Ostara is passionate about changing the way the Ag and T&O industry thinks about phosphate management. Our continuing mission is, and will remain, “Feeding the World While Protecting It.” We believe that passionate people can make a real difference and we are building a culture around innovation, sustainability, efficiency, nimbleness, honesty, compliance, and a sense of urgency to make a positive difference and create real value. Ostara’s CG P2X fertilizers are the first granular phosphate fertilizers to release nutrients in response to plant demand. Using Crop Driven Release™, CG P2X is proven to increase yields, enhance soil health and significantly reduce phosphate tie-up and runoff, thereby improving food security while protecting local waterways from nutrient pollution. **Position summary** The Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance team for Ostara’s heavy industrial fertilizer manufacturing facility. This position will manage the maintenance department, build, and maintain a PM Program, and develop and implement a CMMS (computerized maintenance management system). This Maintenance Manager will be a part of the site leadership team and play a role in the Site Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement program. **Essential functions** - Collaborates with the Ostara capital projects team to deploy new equipment and processes - Guides smaller capital projects from construction to commissioning, including supervision of contractors, writing work permits, creating written procedures, operator, and maintenance training, labeling and completion of contractor punch lists - Provides day-to-day support for operations to enhance the reliability, performance, changeover, and maintenance of production equipment - Optimizes maintenance strategies (preventative and corrective) for production equipment - Works in conjunction with quality, manufacturing, and functional area managers/ supervisors to align support system such as computerized maintenance management system (“CMMS”), spare parts inventory, planning, and scheduling - Acts as technical lead for the equipment and associated utilities to support projects and enhance operator and maintenance technician capabilities - Works with the quality, operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to develop and support the site equipment reliability program. - Leads technical troubleshooting efforts to determine the root cause of equipment failures and under performance. Implement timely, effective corrective actions - Develops, implements, and utilizes a CMMS as the central reliability measurement resource by ensuring accurate data collection/analysis, and by establishing and monitoring reliable key performance indicators. - Creates detailed maintenance procedures, PM tasks, and work instructions to ensure work is properly completed by maintenance technicians with minimal ambiguity **Supervisory responsibilities** - Hires and trains, coaches, and mentors Ostara’s maintenance staff - Schedules, organizes, and assigns projects to members of the maintenance teams - Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive - Handles discipline and termination of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy **Required skills/abilities** - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail - Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software - Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels, within and outside the company - Ability to safely move in and through work areas, including climbing stairs, maintaining good balance, being mentally alert, having good visual acuity and safety working at heights - Ability to safety work in and around heavy industrial environment, including moving objects, concentrated chemicals, and transport vehicles **Education/experience** - Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, chemical or mechanical preferred - At least 8 years of leading the main…