Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Avery Brewing Co.•Boulder, CO

23d•Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering & Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all brewery equipment, facilities, utilities, and maintenance systems. This role leads the maintenance team, develops preventative maintenance programs, manages capital projects, and drives continuous improvement initiatives that maximize equipment uptime and production efficiency while maintaining world-class safety and quality standards. This position partners closely with Brewing, Packaging, Warehouse, Quality, EH&S, and Finance to support business objectives and long-term growth. The manager leads a team of 3-4 industrial technicians.

Requirements

Technical degree or degree in a related field
5 years’ experience in engineering or maintenance
In depth knowledge of maintenance programs
Proficiency in services and functioning of pumps, motors, controls, PLC, conveyance, boilers, compressors, chillers and HVAC.
Experience with servicing facility utilities
Strong communication and leadership skills.
Ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms, including persuasion-through-explanation.
Integrity
High drive for results
Ability to build value-add relationships within function/organization and with suppliers.
Advances troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
Root cause analysis
Microsoft office, email, engineering software familiar

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the engineering & maintenance team through clear expectations, accountability, and ongoing training.
Develop work schedules and assign priorities.
Ensure work orders are completed in a timely manner.
Improve efficiency with packaging equipment, brewery process equipment in brewhouse can cellar and facilities.
Oversee maintenance activities on all utility systems to provide continuous supply of heat, steam, cooling, electric power, gas, and air required for operations.
Troubleshoot daily issues.
Lead capital projects, timelines, and capital expenditure.
Plan, develop, and implement new methods to improve operations, minimize operating costs and improve utilization of labor and materials.
Works with outside contractors to service existing or install new equipment.
Drive and collaborate on root-cause analysis and elimination of failures.
Prepares repair and maintenance budget for all engineering spends, including overhauls, services, tools, spare parts, supplies and other maintenance needs.
Ensures adherence to budgets and spending.
Process PO’s in ERP system, resolve issues with PO’
Train, develop and improve the technical knowledge and skillset of the team.
Conduct regular one-on-ones with all team members including performance reviews and development planning, including corrective actions as required.