The purpose of this job is to support the Plant Maintenance
Department to maintain plant equipment, facilities, and systems in a way that
maximizes OEE (specifically equipment availability and uptime) and supports
good business practices for production of low cost, high quality products in a
safe work environment. Key member of site engineering team. Support, implement,
and maintain food safety and quality practices as required through SQF. Will be
responsible for completing job duties in a manner that supports plant,
personal, and food safety, quality, sanitation, and environmental practices.
JOB ACTIVITIES/DUTIES
- Manage, support, and administer an effective uptime
improvement process in order to maintain all equipment, facilities, and systems
in a safe and efficient working condition while supporting compliance of GMP’s
and food safety/security.
- Analyzes and evaluates the reliability of products,
equipment, components, and processes using engineering methodologies and tools.
- Establish measurement and tracking systems for predictive
and preventive maintenance.
- Provide scheduling and work order systems that optimizes the
talent contribution of a of multi-skilled, non-union technician team.
- Work closely with other departments to align strategies and
tactics for optimizing the availability of production lines.
- Develop, maintain, and administer an effective preventive
maintenance program to minimize unscheduled downtime.
- Measure available production uptime.
- Provide tactical and strategic programs for an effective
maintenance parts & supplies procurement and inventory program.
- Ensure effective planning and scheduling of maintenance
resources.
- Coordinate with engineering and purchasing functions to
ensure project and spending goals are met.
- Ensure departmental budgets and plans are maintained and
executed.
- Manage the use of contractors for supplemental and
specialized production / utility maintenance activities to ensure timely and
cost-effective solutions.
- Assure compliance with state and local electrical, plumbing,
building, and mechanical codes.
- Support compliance of corporate and plant standards for
project work and documentation.
- Develop collaborative relationships with peers to ensure
optimum use of resources.
- Ensure a competitive bid process is used to identify the
best value for external purchases.
- Plan for and provide a work environment that allows and
encourages participation from all team members, good employee relations, and
development opportunities.
- Ensure that equipment, spare parts, and facility performance
goals are met in an environment where employee, and food safety, and security
are paramount.
- Provide input and administration of computerized maintenance
management system.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Education:
- 4 year Bachelors Degree required.Engineering degree preferred.
- Working knowledge of multi-discipline fields of maintenance,
plant engineering, and manufacturing.
Experience:
- 2+ years experience with increasing responsibilities in
maintenance, engineering, or production;
Skills:
- Balance of technical, maintenance, human relations, and
conceptual skills.
- Strong communicator.
- Able to write reports, memos, and letters and make oral
presentations.
- Able to evaluate alternatives, establishing priorities, and
formulating decisions that affect all aspects of the operation.
- Computer Simulation
- Failure Analysis
- Predictive Analytics and Modeling
- Reliability Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Software
Problem Solving:
- Must solve technical problems, find solutions to crises, and
plan to minimize crises.
- Must be able to understand the impact of decisions and
policies within and beyond immediate work group.
- Develop and implement a proactive engineering and
maintenance support strategy focused on increasing equipment reliability and
proven uptime.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITY
- Works under the direction of the Engineering Manager and
closely with the Operations Managers, Line Managers and Plant Manager.
- Sales and distribution forecasts set broad production
maintenance priorities.
- Incumbent responds to major conflicts in successful
execution of production plan.
- Incumbent allocates available resources to meet production
demands.
