Maintenance Manager- Food Production

Job Title

• **MaintenanceManager

Location

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• **Brockton, MA

Department

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• **Maintenance

Reporting to

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• **Plant Manager

Position Purpose

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Plans, develop and implement new methods and procedures designed to improve maintenance processes. Minimize operating costs and drive greater utilization of equipments. Lead the safe execution of maintenance in accordance with all related safe work policies and procedures.

Key Accountabilities

Provides a safe, comfortable operating environment by directing installation, maintenance and repair of machines, tools, equipment and utility systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that productivity, quality and safety are everyday practice

• Identifies current and future maintenance requirements by establishing lines of communication with management, production personnel, tradesmen, technicians and other persons in a position to understand maintenance requirements.

• Monitors machines and mechanical equipment to ensure operating at maximum efficiency. Diagnoses any source of trouble and ensures that repairs are completed in a timely and cost-effective manner.

• Achieves financial objectives by preparing annual maintenance expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective action.

• Ensures production operations by determining work priorities and scheduling repair, maintenance and installation of machines, tools and equipment.

• Supports product development and improvement by reviewing new product plans, equipment needs and modifications with R&D, coordinating activities with technicians, and assembling workers or modifying machines, tools and equipment.

• Provides heat, electrical power, gas, and air by directing installation, modification and maintenance activities on utility systems.

• Designs, implements and modifies preventive maintenance programs by reviewing production, QA and maintenance reports and statistics. Inspects operating machines, equipment and systems for conformance with operational standards.

• Directs maintenance operations by initiating, coordinating and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

• Resolves maintenance problems by conferring with management, production and QA personnel.

• Develops practices and procedures to follow in order to prevent equipment breakdowns and monitors adherence to such practices and procedures. Performs preventative maintenance duties on an ongoing basis.

• Protects employees and visitors by maintaining a safe and clean environment.

• Maintains maintenance staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.

• Maintains maintenance staff job results by coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees: planning, monitoring and appraising job results.

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

• Produces monthly reports to management detailing condition of equipment.

• To ensure adequate resources are available to achieve food safety and quality objectives and to support the development, implementation and maintenance and ongoing improvement of the SQF system.

• “ Other duties as may be assigned or volunteered for”.

Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level

Required

• High School/equivalent; Five years of mechanical and electrical experience in the food industry and some knowledge of USDA and OSHA regulations.

• College degree preferred

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• Excellent leadership, communications and team building skills.

• Computer literate with proficiency in spreadsheet and word application

Preferred

• Ability to develop business partners with vendors

• Experience working in a union environment and knowledge of union contract administration

• To be able to communicate, make logical decisions and travel around the facility.

• Structured thinking

• Good communications skills, hard working, dependable, safety conscious and bilingual, English/Spanish preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Lift up to 50 lbs.

• Work standing or walking for long periods of time.

• Work bending and squatting.

• Work making fast and repetitive hand motions.

• Work in cold refrigerated and frozen conditions.

• And able to push/pull heavy loads using hand operated lift trucks.

• Food production atmosphere.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather

  conditions, and is occasionally exposed to traffic hazards, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and extreme cold.

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is subject to a warehouse and walk-in freezer environment where temperatures can vary from extreme cold to very warm.

• The noise level in the work environment is often moderate to loud.

Food Safety / Quality

• *Report any issues regarding food safety or quality to managers and / or quality assurance.

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• *Report any risks or any evidence of unsafe or out-of-specification product, equipment, packaging or raw materials to a designated manager to enable the resolution of issues requiring immediate attention.

• You should be proficient in:

• Creating Preventive Maintenance Plans
• Heavy Equipment Repair
• HVAC/R Systems
• Mechanical Troubleshooting Skills
• 120/208/240/480 Voltage Systems
• Commercial Electrical Expertise
• Electrical Installation
• Electrical Troubleshooting
• Electrical Repair
• OSHA 10-Hour Certification (OSHA 10)

You should be proficient in:

• Creating Preventive Maintenance Plans
• Mechanical Troubleshooting Skills
• 120/208/240/480 Voltage Systems
• Electrical Troubleshooting
• High Voltage Systems
• Maintenance and Repair Skills
• Industrial Electrical Experience