Operations Maintenance Coordinator

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking an Operations Maintenance Coordinator for our First Quality Tissue facility located in Defiance, OH.  Operations Maintenance Coordinators are responsible for safely executing warehouse tasks per policies and procedures to support inventory accuracy, loading, unloading and housekeeping efforts.

Primary Responsibilities Include: 

•    Promote an action-oriented safety culture embracing safety as a core value, instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace.
•    Instill safety as a core value.  Nothing that we do is so important that it cannot be done safely
•    Be a role model of safe behavior
•    Ensure "tour ready" housekeeping at all times
•    Confront shortfalls in behavior and results immediately
•    Partner with support teams to reach goals & objectives
•    Manage safety work orders to expected completion
•    Act as go to person on equipment related safety issues across the department
•    Instill the FQ Culture as our way of thinking, behaving, communicating, and making decisions
•    Be a role model of FQ Culture
•    Assist in training the Operation/Maintenance teams on how equipment works * Be a resource for training or instruction
•    Work closely with team members to troubleshoot production/equipment issues  
•    Assist Project Engineering on projects for the business unit  
•    Mentor Maintenance Lead through the operation process
•    Liaison between operations and maintenance
•    Instill quality as a core value with both, equipment repairs and product quality
•    Assist the Operation Team in resolving quality issues whether it be equipment or process
•    Assist business unit leader, Engineer and leads in troubleshooting production issues
•    Address day to day maintenance activities to ensure proper repair is done. This also includes assisting/arranging LOTO for repairs that can be done OTR
•    Own of the WO Approval and manage backlog
•    Attend the Planning meeting and Scheduling meeting to ensure WO's get on the weekly schedule
•    Owner of RWS strategy (spare parts, PMs, operating strategy/limits, MOC, software change request, etc.)
•    Owner of conditioning day schedule and scope
•    Escalate barriers to planning and scheduling timeliness
•    Owner of the weekly and if-down-do work order priority list
•    Manage projects and repairs making sure we get the best value for our money
•    Make major repair decisions with the right people involved
•    Investigate and improve storeroom cost when applicable.  Save money on spares by looking at other venders
•    Own/Forecast Repair and Maintenance Budget  

•    First six months, training primarily conducted in Anderson, South Carolina

The ideal candidate should possess the following: 
•    Advanced knowledge of INFOR or other Computerized Maintenance Management Systems.
•    Knowledge of product specifications, quality specifications, goals, efficiency, scrap and production.
•    SAP and Microsoft Project knowledge preferred.
•    Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 3 years of industrial maintenance experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment. Or Associate Degree in engineering and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing operations or maintenance environment; or/ 7 years’ experience in a manufacturing operations or maintenance environment.
•    Internal candidates preferred to have advanced knowledge of technology and mechanics from completion of Advanced (Leadership, Reliability, and Troubleshooting) Qualifications, or complete activities to be Level 4 Technician (Project Work, Leadership, and/or Specialty Skill)

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities

• Paid time off (three-week minimum)

• Medical, dental and vision starting day one

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid parental leave

• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)

• Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)

• Tuition assistance

• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.  As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.