Engineering & Maintenance Manager, Casting

Category:  Engineering

Job Summary:

The Maintenance and Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all Casting equipment and facilities. This role leads maintenance activities across the Casting department, driving a culture of safety and reliability-centered maintenance. Key responsibilities include enforcing health and safety standards, managing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, overseeing repairs and breakdowns, and expanding the use of PdM technologies to improve equipment performance. The manager will plan and execute major outages, control maintenance budgets, ensure availability of critical spare parts, and track KPIs to achieve operational goals. Additionally, this position requires strong leadership to motivate and develop a team of engineers, technicians, and supervisors while maintaining compliance with OSHA standards and fostering continuous improvement.

 

 

Responsibilities:

  • Leading by example, enforce all health and safety regulations, maintain safety records, and create a safe work environment.
  • Oversee day to day maintenance operations, coordinating all activities with the production centers.
  • Lead all maintenance efforts, including preventative maintenance strategies, routine repairs, and breakdowns.
  • Motivate a team of engineers, maintenance technicians and supervisors, fostering a culture of Safety and Reliability Centered Maintenance.
  • A working knowledge of OSHA standards to keep the workplaces safe, covering hazard communication, PPE, fall protection, electrical safety (Lockout/Tagout), machine guarding, and emergency procedures
  • Expand the use of PdM technologies to increase equipment reliability.  
  • Develop and maintain the maintenance budget, control costs, ensuring critical spare parts are available.
  • Plan, lead and execute multiple department Outages, ensuring start-up schedules and budgets are adhered to. 
  • Setup and track KPIs to drive desired results

 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline from an accredited program, (relevant hands-on experience that demonstrate skills could be considered)
  • 8 to 10 years of maintenance and engineering experience in a heavy industrial setting, required
  • CMRP certification is preferred
  • Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems, as well as experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) software.
  • Extensive hands-on experience and trouble shooting in a relevant maintenance or industrial setting.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a cross functional team.
  • Effective communication (both written and verbal) with the ability to adapt communication styles to different audiences.
  • Effective time management with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines,
  • Available outside normal hours to respond to urgent needs, troubleshooting, ensuring support for critical operations

 

About Constellium:

With ~1,100 employees, Constellium’s plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is one of the world’s largest rolled products facilities, offering customers the most powerful plate stretchers in the world, as well as one of the largest cold rolling mills. Built in 1957, the plant houses 62 acres (about 250,900 m²) of production facilities, and is one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia. 

We produce plate, sheet, and coil products for aerospace, defense, transportation, marine, and industrial uses. As the global leader in aluminum aerospace technology, we specialize in high performance plates, sheets and extrusions that bring cost and performance benefits to space programs and military and commercial aircraft. Our advanced aluminum products manufactured in the US, France and Switzerland can be found in platforms manufactured by Airbus, Applied Materials, Blue Origin, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, General Dynamics, LAM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and others. The Ravenswood facility is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Ohio River. It is the largest employer in Jackson County, and one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.

A culture of family, community, and hard work runs deep in Jackson County. Located in the western region of West Virginia, it is one of the most productive regions in the state, with Ripley as its county seat and Ravenswood serving as its largest municipality. Ripley sits between the Parkersburg and Charleston metropolitan areas.

The region offers plenty of activities, both open-air and indoors, for a wide range of interests. These include parks, lakes, forests, Civil War trails, golf courses, historical landmarks (covered bridges, a heritage house, a castle), museums and galleries, conference centers, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Charleston Light Opera Guild, and much more.

Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.