ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE MANAGER I

McCormick & Company•Gretna, LA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

McCormick & Company, Inc. is a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry. Zatarain's, a leader in New Orleans cuisine - owned by McCormick -.is seeking a full-time Engineering and Maintenance Manager, reporting to the Plant Manager. This role will work in Zatarain's Plant, located at 82 1st Street, Gretna, Louisiana. McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand." As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.Job Overview Under the direction of the Plant Manager, the Engineering & Maintenance Manager directs the activities of Project Engineering, Process Engineering, Building Maintenance, Security, and Maintenance Operations. Incumbent is responsible for all Divisional, Plant and Departmental goals, including reliability, cost reduction, waste reduction, safety, quality and sanitation improvements, downtime reduction, as well as ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures. In addition, this position will monitor progress towards goals and make certain that capital projects and other resources are being utilized to provide maximum benefits to the facility. Demonstrates a deep respect for the capabilities of all people, believing that people will contribute to what they understand and feel is in their best and self-interest. Must be able to structure their approach based on the core belief that the success of the company depends upon the capabilities and contributions of all people in the organization. Incumbent works collectively with Plant Leadership to actualize McCormick's vision and ensure objectives are met.

Requirements

Relevant Engineering degree (ME, CHemE, IE, EE)
Minimum 7-10 years manufacturing experience in food processing, pharmaceutical, or chemical process plus progressive leadership experience.
Shop floor/information systems experience; i.e. PC, PLC, Robotics.
Process engineering/analytica process mapping experience.
Knowledge of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) and P.M. (preventative maintenance) practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Food Processing an asset.

Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day activities of Maintenance department, Process Engineering, Project Engineering, and outside building contractors.
Set goals, priorities, monitor progress, and evaluate performance of staff to ensure the maximum benefit of the resources expended.
Creates an empowered environment (MHPS), ensuring that the Engineering & Maintenance organization and its people understand the goals and objective (OGSM's) of the business and that they have the resource and support to accomplish them.
Establishes an environment that ensures and supports open and healthy communications.
Prepare and manage Capital Asset Acquisition Proposal (CAAP's) annual budget.
Ensure that projects are planned properly to provide suffucient funding, review data to ensure that results are achievable, and obtain necessary approvals.
Closely monitor projects to ensure they are completed as planned and that funds are utilized properly.
Initiate design changes and modifications to further improve machine efficiency, to facilitate packaging design changes and cost reductions, and to expand the capability of existing equipment to handle new products.
Development of both strategic capital plans, ensuring an acceptable return on investment replacement of worn or obsolete equipment, expansion of capacity to meet sales growth, equipment modification or replacement related to packaging changes or cost reduction, as well as development of expanded productive capacity for new products.
Coordinate the selection, design, and layout of processing and packaging machinery to ensure efficiency, optimum space utilization, and adequate production capacity.
Responsible for ensuring that all engineering and maintenance processes are completely documented (including Capital start up plans, SOPs, DOPs, and run documents), and implement any changes to these processes.
Accountable for the development and implementation of effective preventive maintenance programs, along with the establishment of a proficient maintenance stores procurement and inventory control system, as applicable.
Responsible for meeting all regulatory requirements pertaining to the areas of waste disposal, air emissions, and facilities permits and codes.
Responsible for timely filing of all regulatory documents to the appropriate Federal, State, and Local Governmental agencies.
Ensure that safety and security measures are in place for the facility.
Responsible for meeting all regulatory requirements pertaining to waste disposal, emissions, facility permits and codes.
Creates operating budgets and capital budgets with other leadership teams members.
Manage department expense budgets with appropriate accounting information and support.
Participates in the business planning and budgeting process.
Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.
Manages operating budget for Engineering, Facilities, and Maintenance.