Maintenance & Engineering Manager

About the Role

You will manage the business’s physical assets (buildings, infrastructure, and equipment) at the Yountville site. You will be responsible for the successful facilities and maintenance preventive and corrective work programs, utilizing an on-site team and contracted outsourced service providers. You will ensure that infrastructure and equipment is safe, available, performs at its optimum, supports a top-notch guest experience, and maintains compliance.

Responsibilities

Quality, Safety & Environment

• Demonstrate active and visible safety, environment, energy, quality, and food safety leadership, management, and commitment.
• Develop and promote a strong culture that prioritizes safety, quality, reducing environmental impact, energy usage, and food safety needs.
• Ensure all team members actively participate in program requirements including company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Empower team to seek opportunities for improvement including training, weekly team chats, near miss and incident reporting, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and resolutions.
• Lead and ensure all safety for the maintenance internal and outsourced services teams including conducting job hazard risk analysis, identifying potential safety concerns, and ensuring thorough resolution.
• Implement and comply with the Integrated Management System (IMS).

Facility Maintenance

• Ensure a facilities-wide preventive maintenance asset-care program meeting Chandon stakeholders' needs, placing an emphasis on customer service and reducing reactive work.
• Ensure a successful repair request system with timely response including stakeholder alignment on priorities.
• Ensure continuous update of the CMMS eMaint for recordkeeping, tracking repair projects, and response times.
• Lead maintenance priority and communication processes to ensure department and stakeholder needs are met.
• Ensure department stakeholders establish weekly priorities for maintenance scheduling.
• Establish and ensure a company-wide escalation process for urgent maintenance repairs and respond to critical incidents and other events as required.

Outsourced Services Management

• Develop and instill a team-oriented culture of positivity and engagement both within the department and with outsourced service providers and across the business.
• In conjunction with Purchasing and Quality, maintain vendor assessment process.
• Develop and implement key KPIs for each service provider to evaluate performance and ensure accountability.
• Supervise and coordinate work produced by outside vendors to maintain and repair various facility infrastructures.
• Ensure proper onboarding programs are in place to support outsourced service provider effectiveness.
• Navigate challenges using a proactive professional approach to understanding all inputs, needs, and utilizing tools of CAR, root cause, and proactive communication.

Operations and Facility Compliance

• Ensure federal, state, and county compliance required for compliance-related permitting as needed using compliance via Internal Control.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the wine industry.
• At least 3 years supervising a team.
• Knowledge of safe production practices, including safety of equipment and following procedures.

Skills

Technical & Management Skills

• Ability to lead a wide team, resource plan, prioritize, achieve targets, be inclusive, and be a team player.
• Ability to lead teams/contractors to ensure resolution via key expertise (electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, etc.).
• Experience with Continuous Improvement (CI), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and 5S.
• Confident in computer packages including SAP, eMaint, MS Office, and other MS packages.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of urgency.
• Ability to work across all areas of the business.

Personal & Interpersonal Skills

• Team Building
• Problem Solving
• Proactive, dealing with ambiguity
• Managing vision and purpose, creativity

Languages

• English required, Spanish encouraged.

Pay

$115,000 - $130,000/year, 10% target bonus.