• Manages personnel involved with maintenance, repair, and servicing of plant facility, equipment, and grounds.
• Monitors and tracks all maintenance costs including, but not limited to, utilities, down time, waste, fuel and emissions.
• Ensures appropriate level of spare parts inventory in conjunction with Purchasing Manager.
• Ensures calibration of all equipment.
• Resolve highly critical issues within department while maintaining rigorous adherence to project timelines and costs.
• Directs preventative maintenance programs for plant and researches ways to run equipment more efficiently.
• Control maintenance budget.
• Ensures training as required to maintain necessary technical and mechanical skills.
• Ensures safe and healthful working conditions and an organized work environment and conducts regular safety meetings.
• Coaches and reviews performance of direct reports.
• Ensures employees complete required training.
• Ensure ergonomic risk factors are reduced to an acceptable level when feasible.
• Lead injury/illness investigations and ensure accurate root cause is identified and addressed. Where feasible, strive to ensure injured e employees do not return to a given job until the causative factors are identified and controlled.
• Demonstrate safe work practices.
• Promotes and adheres to all safety and health policies and procedures of plant.
• Analyze problems that arise and determine actions that will minimize the problems, decrease costs and/or improve yields, recommends changes upon approval and then implements changes.
• Maintains performance records on employees and routinely communicates performance to employees. Conducts couching sessions on methods and techniques for improving performance, including reviewing time records.
• Schedules employees work time and vacation time to ensure proper coverage for production and ensuring the budget guidelines for overtime are met each year.
• Work with support groups in Production, Raw Materials, Accounting and Safety to coordinate projects of plant.
• Ensure that proper documentation is submitted to appropriate channels for CAPEX projects. Works closely with Accounting to meet and coordinate required documentation and meeting date lines.
• Performs other duties as required by Manager.

• At least 5 or more years of experience in electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and/or electronic equipment and systems.
• At least 3 years of supervisory/management experience.
• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent with a bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Knowledge of industrial maintenance procedures and construction preferred.

• Core competencies include strong communication and problem-solving skills, data analysis and interpretation, decision making, and ability to prioritize.
• Good computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets and databases.

Dal-Tile is the largest manufacturer and marketer of ceramic, porcelain, glass and metal tile as well as natural stone, large format slab and countertop products used in residential and commercial spaces across North America. Under its three powerhouse brands — Daltile, Marazzi and American Olean — Dal-Tile leads the industry in both design and product innovation, and is committed to incorporating environmentally-friendly materials, processes, and products throughout its organization. Dal-Tile has more than 9,500 employees in North America and sells its products through a network of more than 300 company-owned sales service centers, stone slabyards and design studios that service a robust network of trade customers. Dal-Tile products are also sold through independent flooring retailers, independent distributors and leading home center retailers nationwide. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Dallas, Dal-Tile is a division of Mohawk Industries, the leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. For more information on Dal-Tile and Mohawk Industries, please visit mohawkind.com. For product information, visit daltile.com, marazziusa.com, and americanolean.com.