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Maintenance Area Process Manager

Company:
Vir Healthway
Location:
Columbus, MS, 39701
Posted:
March 04, 2026
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Description:

Industry: Manufacturing & Production

Job Category: Manufacturing - Plant Management

Position Title:

Maintenance Area Process Manager

Category: Full-time

The Job You Will Perform:

This position is responsible for improving overall mill performance by increasing equipment uptime and reducing end of life failures between outages. The primary area of responsibility will be from the digester through the finishing area.

Be a role model and champion for an injury-free work place

Analyse chronic equipment failures and high maintenance/cost equipment.

Use "Failure Analysis" to systematically understand failures by determining and documenting the root cause.

Develop and implement solutions to prevent repeat failures.

Analyse maintenance-related downtime weekly to fully understand the source of the downtime and ensure appropriate level of response is taken to eliminate repeat issues.

Provide technical "go to" support in solving day-to-day production and maintenance problems

Champion the preventive and predictive maintenance programs

Maintain Mechanical Integrity program and procedures for Process Safety Management

Provide input to area maintenance budgets for major maintenance items and optimizations

Analyse financial service cost vs. target and address equipment not delivering targeted cost performance.

Develop long term maintenance plan for rotating equipment, rebuilds and major maintenance

Estimate, plan and manage maintenance projects to budget for routine work, quarterly outages and major outages.

Provide capital and expense project design, development and execution

Provide contractor work management and coordination for routine and major shutdown jobs per mill standards using best engineering practices

The Skills You Will Bring:

Required Qualifications:

BS (minimum) in Mechanical or Metallurgical Engineering

Minimum 3 years of reliability/maintenance engineering experience in continuous process industry preferably kraft pulp manufacturing

Knowledge and experience in Maintenance Best Practices

Working knowledge of ASME, NBIC and API codes and OSHA regulations

Extensive knowledge of rotating equipment, pressure vessels, piping systems, and atmospheric storage tanks

Use of precision measurement tools and assembly techniques

Able to teach others

Interpersonal skills necessary to work within a diverse organization

Able to work in a high-performance team environment

Ability to manage multiple projects at one time

Excellent written and oral communication skills, organizational and planning skills, facilitations skills, computer skills and the ability to achieve results through others

Willingness to work extended hours, particularly during scheduled outages

Competencies:

Drive for results

Interpersonal skills

Technical & functional skills

Planning

Organizing

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