Lead Production Maintenance Technician (Days)

About the Company

SunOpta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers, and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers’ growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice, and e-commerce channels across North America.

About the Role

The Lead Production Maintenance Technician is responsible for providing and coordinating the day-to-day plant maintenance functions on their shift, supervising Production Technicians, ensuring maintenance operating efficiencies, safety, housekeeping, and quality workmanship. This role serves as the primary contact with Production Supervisors to coordinate work with maintenance staff, executes preventive maintenance programs, and supports the leadership team and employees at the site.

Responsibilities

• Leads all Production Technicians on scheduled shifts.
• Coordinates maintenance workers by scheduling repairs and planning maintenance and installation activities.
• Coordinates maintenance activities on utility systems to provide a continuous supply of heat, steam, electric power, gas, or air required for operations.
• Reviews production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities.
• Identifies the training needs of shift personnel in all aspects of their jobs consistent with established operating procedures.
• Ensures safety in the workplace by eliminating unsafe conditions and unsafe employee behaviors.
• Protects Company assets by directly intervening in any condition resulting in the abuse of equipment or buildings.
• Executes the preventive maintenance program in conjunction with the maintenance staff.
• Inspects operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Confers with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
• Participates in the planning of new installations.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase the efficiency of the maintenance staff.
• Analyzes and troubleshoots equipment problems.
• Assists maintenance staff in solving equipment problems.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Skills

• Technical ability: Understand complex manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Detail Orientation: Breaks large tasks into small parts and understands the components that make up the whole. Speaks with data.
• Business Acumen: Aligns work with plant goals.
• Judgment: Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in the decision-making process; makes timely decisions.
• Motivation: Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against a standard of excellence; takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
• Planning/Organizing: Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.
• Professionalism: Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
• Quality: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Dependability: Follows instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Initiative: Volunteers readily; undertakes self-development activities; seeks increased responsibilities; takes independent actions and calculated risks; looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; asks for and offers help when needed.
• Innovation: Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Two or more years of related experience in Mechatronics or a food-grade facility.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Aseptic processing experience.
• High-speed form/fill/seal packaging experience.
• Boiler License and/or Electrician’s License is a plus.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Knowledge of business software and manufacturing software (HMIs, PLCs, manufacturing controls).

Additional Information

This role is located at the SunOpta Plant in Midlothian, TX. The position is a day shift (B) opportunity on a 2-2-3 pattern, 12-hour shifts (6 am to 6:30 pm). Some flexibility may be required. Occasional travel may be needed. Relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.

Pay

$43.80 per hour.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid family leave
• Paid maternity leave
• 401(k) with match
• Voluntary life, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Paid holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance