Senior Manager, Maintenance

Position Overview

The Maintenance Senior Manager’s responsibility is to lead maintenance practices across the plant to ensure reliability, maintainability, and availability of all plant production resources (production and facilities), with a specific focus on overall deterioration losses. Ensuring that people's safety and food safety come first, this individual is a confident leader with strong technical and communication skills, with the ability to engage and build relationships across all teams, including the ability to coach and empower team members to take ownership for driving out losses at all levels.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to the Maintenance Department in all aspects of their work, specifically through Gemba walks, one-on-one coaching, and observations.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, and monitors an Asset Maintenance and Reliability Plan that includes:
• Value-added preventive and predictive maintenance tasks
• Effectively managed spare parts inventory
• Integrated and utilized CMMS System
• Proactive Planning and Scheduling processes
• Standardized maintenance KPIs
• Lead continued improvement in teammate relations both within department and cross-functionally
• Collaborate with other sister sites to solve problems and broadly share learnings
• Champions Safety initiatives through active participation of EHS team and Safety leader of maintenance team. Ensure all equipment and the facility infrastructure are operated and remain in strict food safety compliance.
• Supervise direct reports:
• Facilities and Utilities Engineer
• Maintenance and Reliability Manager
• MRO Buyer
• Maintenance Planner
• Identifies and drives maintenance process improvement opportunities.
• Ability to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants' limited resources on top losses.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering from an accredited university/college.
• Minimum of 5 years of industrial experience in a food manufacturing environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems.
• Computer literate (MS Word, MS Excel, and other appropriate MS Office Suite applications).
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems.
• Experience with ERP systems, trend analysis, and data historian systems.
• Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventive Maintenance) pillar implementations.
• Minimum of 5 years of industrial experience in a food manufacturing or CPG environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems.
• General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required.

Competencies And Skills

• Strategic thinking with strong business acumen.
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills.
• Deep understanding of food manufacturing processes and cost structures.
• Proven ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, high-visibility projects.
• Collaborative leadership style that builds trust and drives results.
• MCRP, CRL, ARP or other maintenance and reliability certifications.
• 7 + years of leadership of teams of at least 5 individuals.
• Black/Green belt in Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement tools.

Physical Demands

• Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods and move throughout the facility as needed.
• Visual and hearing acuity sufficient for business and technical environments.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel domestically up to 25%.
• Able to lift 50 lbs.

Work Environment And Personal Protective Equipment

• Works in a plant and in a general office environment.
• Will be required to wear suitable Personal Protective Equipment.
• May be exposed to the loud noise of plant machinery.
• May be exposed to extreme temperatures, wet, humid conditions, and inclement weather.
• May be exposed to oils and airborne particles.
• May be required to work near moving mechanical parts.