V8 Maintenance Manager

How you will make history here...

Under the direction of the Operations Manager, the West Plant (Beverage) Maintenance Manager position is responsible for the proper maintenance of all equipment in the Production, Distribution, Plant Services, and Maintenance departments and for providing maintenance support to all other departments as well.  This position will collaborate and work closely on all maintenance matters with the Napoleon Site Maintenance Manager.  This position directly supervises and develops other salaried leaders on the West Plant Maintenance Team and works closely with the West Plant Business Leaders, to provide coaching and direction, as needed.

What you will do...

• Develop and lead the implementation of the Progressive Maintenance / Equipment Reliability strategic plan for each department that maintains the plant's electrical/mechanical, control and utilities systems and supports the sites plant's financial and operating objectives. 
• Provide technical assistance in the purchase and maintenance of all equipment. 
• Personnel Development - Develops a competent and efficient West Plant Maintenance Department workforce and assists with developing the Production Department. Assures personnel have the experience, tools, supplies, and materials required for performing maintenance services. Creates a department staffing model to achieve required business outcomes. 
• Department Budgeting - Monitors expense budgets for the West Plant Maintenance Department. Manages use of labor and materials to optimize department effectiveness. 
• Strategic Planning - Develops, recommends, and reviews long term strategies for expense and capital initiatives relating to the West Plant Maintenance Department and the successful operation of the plant. Key to the development of the strategic capital and savings plan for the facility. 
• Insure and support key initiatives including those in Safety, OpEx, Diversity, etc. as it relates to the goals of the organization.
• Health, Safety, and Employee Relations - Enforces company procedures and policies regarding safety and employee conduct; maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork. 
• Productivity increases are required to meet plant manufacturing goals. The West Plant Maintenance Manager will work with a multi-disciplined team to identify opportunities and create a support team to achieve the goal. The solutions often involve modifying existing equipment to achieve immediate need, while providing technical information needed to create capital projects.    
• A new product line requires system changes to allow production to run a product. The West Plant Maintenance Manager and a team will be formed from that area, which has good technical and working knowledge of the equipment. Equipment design modification, PLC process control, and safety issues will be reviewed. This review would result in an action plan looking at expense/capital funding, allocation of time and personnel, and production schedule.      
• Must be able to quickly address technical related issues that Production brings forward. Involves identifying if a problem actually exists and the most efficient use of materials and manpower to correct. Enhance present preventive equipment PM programs to a system of predictive maintenance. Form a predictive maintenance team to gather and analyze data which could be formatted to a predictive program using the latest equipment technologies (oil analysis, vibration, etc.). Utilize root cause failure analysis for problem solving.      
• Ensure annual plant shutdowns facilitate regulatory inspections and on-time repairs that can only be accomplished during the shutdown periods.  

Who you will work with...

You will work with maintenance technicians and employees in the plant, including those on the soup side.

What you bring to the table (must haves)...
 

• Minimum Education: High school diploma 
• 5 years maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
• 3 years supervisory experience, preferably in food manufacturing or pharmaceutical

It would be great if you have (nice to haves)...

• Preferred Education:   Bachelors of Science in Engineering (BSME or BSEE) or another technical field. 
• Superior problem-solving skills.  
• Experience in a plant production environment, preferably food processing
• Strong people and relationship management skills with the ability to direct and lead others to deliver results.  
• Experience with preventative and predictive maintenance  
• Capital project implementation  
• SAP experience  
• Financial budgeting experience  
• Excellent planning and organizational skills and the ability to successfully manage multiple priorities/assignments.  
• Good communication and presentation skills