Senior Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overall reliability and availability of equipment and control of maintenance labor and expense budget within the plant.
• Responsible for leading execution of capital plan and executing small infrastructure projects.
• Identify, select, and develop talent to ensure "bench strength" and continued development and advancement of top talent within the department.
• Accountable for ownership of the Maintenance Department SWP Board, including the ability to coach leading and lagging KPIs to all levels of work force.
• Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning & scheduling, lubrication, Predictive Maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tool/facilities and inventory management.
• Partner with plant leadership and other teams to ensure equipment improvements are achieved through preventive and predictive maintenance tools and techniques, with a focus on eliminating specific losses around equipment deterioration.
• Supporting Autonomous Maintenance Standard work practices around implementation of safety maps, centerlines, defect handling, clean/inspect/lube tasks to support planned stops to reduce unplanned downtimes.
• Able to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants limited resources on top losses.
• Support, lead and assist with plant projects to ensure delivery of productivity goals.
• Partner with Engineering team to ensure all RAMS deliverables are complete and implemented to support delivering project resource goals.
• Partner with Quality team to ensure programs including FSQI, HAACP, GMP and CAPA are followed to deliver high-quality and safe products to our customers.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other related technical field, or equivalent Management Experience in Maintenance or Reliability field.
• 10+ years of leadership in a technical manufacturing environment, including manual to automated operations
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems
• 7 + years of technical manufacturing leadership of teams of at least 3 to 8 individuals with a total department of 35+ employees.
• Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventative Maintenance) implementations
• General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, and HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required.
• Experience leading continuous improvement projects
• Ability to influence plant leadership and drive cultural change within the plant in regard to Safety, Food Quality and Reliability