Maintenance Manager- Mississauga, ON

Job ID:  500000

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH company, provides Portland and masonry cements to help build the foundation and infrastructure for the world around us.  We ship millions of tons of cement from our plants and network of terminals located across North America. When you work for Ash Grove, you are connecting to something bigger. We stand together to reinvent the way our world is built. Join our team and help Ash Grove build America.

At Ash Grove Cement, people are our first priority. We offer a complete benefits package and opportunities for your continued growth and development! 

What you’ll be contributing: 

• Promote and follow all plant safety guidelines. 

Corporate Social Responsibility

• Provide leadership in administering CRH’s safety, health, and environmental policies
• Engage and inspire employees towards the establishment and maintenance of a positive safety culture.
• Understand OH&S standards and performance objectives/targets.
• Lead and manage appropriate programs/activities to ensure compliance with applicable company policies and legislative laws and regulations.

Sustainable Environmental Performance

• Understand and operate in accordance with company programs, policies and legislative requirements to ensure that environmental standards and performance objective targets are met.

Better Cost Management

• Optimize overall equipment effectiveness at the lowest sustainable cost of maintenance
• Develop maintenance budget and be accountable for results based on defined Key Performance Indicators
• Plan major maintenance projects and develop capital investment recommendations for the plant
• Manage capital and maintenance projects
• Maintain all plant systems and equipment
• Organize and lead the organizational unit/operations to ensure efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
• Lead the workforce to ensure efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
• Forecast and manage budgets; Monitor, measure and report on operational issues; Analyze results and initiate appropriate action to achieve/exceed business objectives and targets.
• Build effective partnerships with other organizational units and shared services to maximize best practices to achieve operational excellence.

Permanent Marketing Innovation

• Responsible for electrical, mechanical, and specialized maintenance, engineering, and general plant services
• Utilization of project management methodology for plant operating improvements and facility management
• Develop and implement a strong reliability-centered maintenance program
• Develop innovative strategies to improve departmental initiatives and ensure continuous improvement.

Human Resource Excellence

• Responsible for training, development and involvement of maintenance personnel within all areas of the plant
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction for the maintenance organization in a manner consistent with company values, and ensure alignment with plant and company goals
• Create a high performance environment through “engaged” employees; Champion and conduct effective performance management; Coach and develop management capability for continued organizational effectiveness.
• Support HR programs and policies.

• Additional duties as assigned by supervisor. 

To succeed in this position, you will need:

• Ability to read, write and understand warning labels, instructions, signs, etc.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree required, engineering or related field is strongly preferred
• Minimum 5 years of combined management level and cement industry experience in a supervisory/managerial role
• Proficient with computers, especially Microsoft software products, AutoCAD and SAP
• Knowledge of maintenance planning and systems implementation
• Good understanding of and experience with reliability centered maintenance and condition monitoring.

Core Competencies

Think the Business

• Demonstrates understanding of the key industry trends and conditions and how they will affect one’s own area
• Pursues initiatives and priorities in own area that are fully aligned and build on one another, driving the success of all; Integrates and balances big-picture concerns with day-to-day activities, raising key issues where appropriate
• Consistently makes sound decisions on everyday issues and problems, balancing information gathering with decisiveness
• Makes prudent decisions regarding expenditures, which effectively balance benefit, cost and impact; Draws the major conclusions from financial reports and analyses to support important decisions and actions; Forecasts revenues and costs associated with business opportunities in a timely manner

Deliver Results

• Identifies and plans the main action steps, contingencies and resources required to accomplish objectives; Delegates tasks and the associated accountabilities that are within the capabilities and responsibility of the assigned staff; conveys clear expectations for assignments; Tracks progress of others on key activities, and intervenes when goals are not being met in order to redirect efforts
• Identifies customers' current (and future) requirements, expectations, and needs; Pursues ways to improve customer service or removes obvious obstacles
• Creates opportunities to interact with customers and asks for their feedback; effectively uses existing tools to consistently track performance against customer requirements and ensure progress is being made
• Achieves work objectives
• Works with others or gathers their input to enhance work processes or structures

Act as a Role Model

• Demonstrates openness to new ideas, assumptions, and opportunities.  Takes advantage of available opportunities to update knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Always shows clear consistency between words and actions; willingly takes personal responsibility and ownership for own actions and their consequences; consistently treats people fairly and respectfully
• Proactively raises and fully considers ethical issues and implications before making business decisions; Provides consistently truthful facts and information, even if the message conflicts with own interests

Energize People

• Energizes others by clarifying the broader purpose, impact, and mission of their work.  Inspires action in others that is self-prompted and initiated
• Convinces others to set ambitious and challenging stretch goals and high standards of performance
• Looks for opportunities to celebrate and reward significant achievements of others
• Listens carefully and attentively to others' opinions and ideas; Supports the open expression of all information and viewpoints
• Manages Performance: Sets & communicates objectives; Provides balanced, accurate feedback on how others are performing, being specific and timely as well as tactful; Recommends and assists others with developmental activities
• Provides honest, helpful feedback to others on their performance; Provides useful on-the-job coaching & suggestions for improvement; Recommends developmental activities to other when the opportunity arises
• Cultivates networks with people across a variety of functions and locations within the organization
• Brings individuals and groups closer together based on common goals and interests; eliminates “we vs. they” thinking
• Proactively involves others in decisions and plans that affect them; actively and skillfully facilitates discussion to ensure that everyone's viewpoint is heard
• Facilitates the resolution of conflicts or disagreements between self and others, constructively focusing on the issues rather than individuals

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• This position may require some lifting of objects up to twenty pounds (20lbs.)
• This is sedentary in nature but may require occasional periods of standing and walking.

Work Environment

• This position is based in an indoor, climate controlled office space

What’s next for you? 

We provide stability and advancement opportunities across North America. Use our tuition reimbursement program to help you meet your career goals. 

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. The physical demands, working environment, and other conditions of employment listed in this document are representative of but are not intended to provide an exhaustive list of the requirements for positions in this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.  

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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