Assistant Plant Engineer
National Beef Packing Co.•Liberal, KS
•Onsite
About The Position
National Beef of Liberal, Kansas is seeking to hire a qualified professional to join our team as Assistant Plant Engineer/Maintenance Manager. With competitive pay and benefits, National Beef could be your next career move!
Requirements
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Strong ability to coordinate multiple departments and priorities simultaneously
- Demonstrate ability to drive accountability and execution through others
- Hands-on understanding of maintenance operations in a manufacturing or processing environment
- Strong focus on people development, training, and team engagement
- Ability to work independently while supporting broader plant strategy
- Willingness to work extended hours as needed in a 24/7 operation
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation as needed
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older
- Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
- Unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time
Nice To Haves
- Experience in meat packing or food processing industry
- Strong background in preventative maintenance systems and reliability programs
- Experience working with CMMS/E-Maintenance programs
- Experience leading or coordinating multi-department maintenance teams
- Knowledge of Automated processing equipment
- Knowledge of Weighing and scale systems
- Knowledge of Food safety and USDA Environments
- Experience supporting Training program development
- Experience supporting Continuous improvement initiatives
- Experience supporting Cross-functional plant projects
Responsibilities
- Provide and uphold a high standard of personal safety, proper PPE, and safe work practices
- Drive maintenance ownership of food safety, including intervention systems, equipment condition, and sanitary design awareness
- Promote 6S, organization, and clean-as-you-go culture across all maintenance departments
- Lead and direct plant maintenance activities
- Drive PM completion rates, quality of work, and follow-up on deficiencies
- Support downtime reduction initiatives and rapid response coordination
- Promote structured Root Cause Analysis from downtime events and follow through
- Assist in building structured training programs for maintenance technicians
- Evaluate safety performances and promote engineered change for safety preventatives
- Drive proper work order usage, data accuracy, and provide actionable insights
- Act as key liaison between maintenance, operations, QA, and safety teams
- Ensure maintenance activities align with production priorities and food safety requirements
- Improve communication flow between departments to reduce delays and conflicts
- Support plant initiatives requiring cross-functional execution
- Assist with department-level spend tracking and accountability
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction through reliability improvements and planning
- Support prioritization of maintenance resources and materials
- Assist Plant Engineer in execution of core capital projects
- Coordinate with departments to ensure successful startup integration of new equipment
- Support development of scopes of work, time-lines, and execution plans
Benefits
- Competitive Wages
- Family-friendly benefits including health, vision and dental
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off
- Paid Life Insurance
- Employee Meat Purchasing Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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