Senior Plant Engineering & Maintenance Manager

About the role

The SR Plant Engineering & Maintenance Manager oversees all aspects of plant maintenance, controls, and engineering, ensuring equipment reliability, efficiency, and adherence to food safety standards, while managing budgets and personnel.

Responsibilities

• Direct maintenance activity and overall maintenance strategy within the plant to allow the highest level of production efficiency while ensuring equipment longevity and product quality.
• Work closely as a team and in support of the Director of Plant Operations and other department managers.
• Show a united front as a team when strategies and direction is given.
• Lead, supervise, and mentor a team of supervisors and engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Administers the maintenance proficiency pay program with department staff.
• Maintain regulatory compliance with ammonia and electrical safety programs and provide leadership on safety compliance and initiatives in the plant.
• Manage capital projects, including planning, budgeting, and execution for the site.
• Lead engineering projects to improve production efficiency, reduce downtime, and enhance product quality.
• Evaluate new technologies and equipment to optimize production processes.
• Work with the Finance department and Corporate Director of Engineering to bring capital projects from budgetting and planning through execution.
• Oversee development and execution of site’s maintenance and repair plans and budgets.
• Oversee development and execution of departmental SOPs for maintenance, parts inventory, energy management, and other departmental functions.
• Provide leadership, management and direction to plant’s automation and controls team.
• Maintain current and implement new controls equipment and strategies to ensure equipment is available to enhance manufacturing processes and overall performance.
• Provide oversight and direction to plant’s engineering staff to ensure projects are designed and installed to meet regulatory and food safety requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance manufacturing processes and overall performance.
• Through a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and engineering principles, identify and resolve equipment issues that arise during the manufacturing process and develop and implement innovative solutions to improve equipment operations and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Technical certification with significant related experience can be substituted for the degree.
• 10+ years experience in maintenance and repair of production equipment, preferably in a food manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience managing facility and grounds maintenance.
• May be required to work at night or on weekends.
• Some travel is required.

Qualifications

• Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and engineering principles.
• Ability to identify and resolve equipment issues that arise during the manufacturing process and develop and implement innovative solutions to improve equipment operations and reliability.

Skills

• Technical expertise in maintenance and repair of production equipment.
• Experience managing facility and grounds maintenance.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Benefits

Industry leading benefit and reward programs: We offer outstanding benefits to our employees. For more information, please visit the careers page: www.tillamook.com/careers. We are committed to creating a diverse culture and inclusive conditions where all employees are heard, valued and feel a sense of belonging. We rely on different perspectives, thoughts, backgrounds and cultures to inform our work, to help us be better as a brand and as an employer and to fuel our success. We are seeking talent from a wide range of diversity, perspectives and backgrounds to join our exceptional organization and help us build our future.