Associate Director, Asset Care
ATTINDAS

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Description
Position at Attindas - US


Attindas Hygiene Partners designs, manufactures, and markets absorbent hygiene products. The company sells adult incontinence and infant diapers, among other products, into the healthcare, retail, and direct-to-consumer channels under brands including Attends, Indas, and Comfees as well as a wide range of private label brands for retailers.

Mission: We champion health, dignity and comfort.

Vision: To be a global leader in absorbent hygiene by meeting consumers' diverse needs

through effective, affordable and widely available personal care solutions.

Our Values: Personal, Agile, Innovative, and Integrity

Job Summary:

The Associate Director, Asset Care (Maintenance, Reliability & Facilities) is a member of the site management team and has full accountability for all maintenance, reliability activities at the Attindas (Attends Healthcare) Greenville NC site. This position is responsible for organizing the maintenance and reliability processes in a manner that will have a direct impact on safety, productivity, cost management, quality, work system development, improvement, and workplace culture development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a successful Maintenance and Reliability function for the Greenville NC site
• Lead all site Maintenance, Facility and Reliability activities
• Address all unplanned site downtime events to return site to normal run conditions as soon as feasible. In addition, work actively to assess any failures, identify root cause, and deploy countermeasures to prevent recurrence
• Provide direct Supervision and develop all members of the Maintenance/Reliability team through OJT and formal training
• Ensure equipment availability to meet defined production schedule
• Lead and develop predictive, preventative and reactive maintenance activities
• Manage site spares, stores, & critical spare program
• Continue implementation and management a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Actively identify gaps in site Maintenance/Reliability systems and systematically work to close them
• Develops and tracks key metrics and utilizes Continuous Improvement (CI) as a routine tool to deliver ongoing improvements
• Represents the Greenville site as a Global Asset Care Leadership Team member.

• Manage the Asset Care (maintenance & reliability) activities for the site including cost control to budget. Provide ongoing coaching and skill building for the team and site to increase the depth of knowledge and skill in all areas of Asset Care.
• Optimize, Develop & Implement an Asset Care Management Program including Preventative Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance, Storeroom operations, Planning and Scheduling, Root Cause analysis, CMMS implementation and management. Partnering with production to create world class results.
• Daily Day Effectiveness established to ensure PMs are performed with excellence, on schedule and optimized for performance, cost and drive continuous improvement.
• Effective Daily Maintenance executed through staff standard work, proper equipment cleaning standards to ensure ongoing equipment health and performance and PdM used where required
• KPI / Focused Improvement: Monitor key performance indicators and to identify ongoing improvements through data analysis by the team and improvements to reduce downtime on the assets.

Required Qualifications:

• Years of Experience/Education/Certifications:
• BS Degree preferably in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering or related required.
• 10 years+ progressive experience in a Process Manufacturing environment with at least 5 years directly leading Maintenance/Facility.
• Ability to build a successful Maintenance and Reliability function from scratch
• Firm understanding of Plant/Production Maintenance and Facility Operations. Key competencies around mechanical, electrical, Automation and Process Control Systems (will be the site lead for all).
• Knowledge of managing Maintenance/Reliability activities in a Process/Plant based environment
• Strong knowledge of Process based industries and their unit operations.
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) implementation experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a high speed, process driven absorbent hygiene or similar environment.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Leader (CRL).
• Six Sigma Greenbelt.
• Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Machine automation and material handling systems.
• Certification in predictive technologies (vibration, infrared, ultrasonic, oil analysis).

Attindas is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, color, sex (including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), marital status, religion, national origin, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

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