Maintenance and Reliability Technical Manager

Danone•Jacksonville, FL

12h•Onsite

About The Position

At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a Maintenance and Reliability Technical Manager based in Jacksonville, Florida! In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing manufacturing maintenance and reliability operations and directly managing adherence to standards of work in maintenance, automation, and reliability teams. You will work closely with the plant director to direct and manage the support of day-to-day operation of the facility, ensuring a reliable operation. You will coordinate the activities of the manufacturing facilities technical resources to ensure customer orders are received, scheduled, and produced safely and reliably, utilizing plant capacities and optimizing manufacturing costs, quality and safety effectively.

Requirements

B.S. degree in an Engineering discipline or a similar technical degree (Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical) strongly preferred.
5 plus years operational and management experience in food manufacturing, serving in an operation or technical capacity required, 10+ years preferred.
Experience in leading and managing technical disciplines and budgets in a medium-site manufacturing organization is essential.
Must be a highly effective program and capital project manager with experience managing complex initiatives across multiple sites.
Strong background in driving performance through improvements in reliability, reduction in losses, etc. via non-capital-intensive measures.
Adept at working in traditional Engineering and Maintenance support programs such as AutoCAD, MS Project, SAP PM (or equivalent CMMS)
Experience in developing individuals and teams to drive high performance.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Formal project management training or certifications preferred.
Operational expertise with TPM principles (i.e., pillars, systems, and standard work) is highly desired.

Responsibilities

Create, develop, and sustain a Spare Parts Stocking Strategy, including stock room management, parts kitting programs, and deployment of preventive and predictive tools.
Demonstrate MP&S leadership, R&M Cost Execution, PM Pillar/IWS Leadership.
Demonstrate loss analysis, breakdown analysis, vendor management, mechanic development, and automation Leadership.
Create, develop, and sustain programs for lubrication, utility system management (boilers, refrigeration, air compressors, water, electric systems) and maintenance safety (confined space, arch flash, etc).
Provide sound administrative direction of subordinate departments including Maintenance, Purchasing, Infrastructure and Controls and others to ensure that objectives and goals are met and that employees are managed effectively
Partner with engineering in the development of the BU and site technical masterplan, including the development and execution of the 3–5-year capital plan.
Drive technical solutions and provide leadership/direction to project management teams/managers responsible for development and execution of project scope, cost, and schedule (from concept to initial production) of multi-discipline capital programs and projects.
Direct and control the deployment of innovation, capital programs and projects for the site to improve performance in the areas of product quality, productivity, and capacity.
Play a lead role in ensuring the BU and Supply Chain delivers against critical objectives such as sustainability targets, improving overall reliability, reducing waste, improvements to quality and safety KPI’s, unlocking capacity and capability while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Responsible for technical and professional development of the members of the Reliability Leaders and BU technical team.
Provides thought leadership and support withing the BU and Technical organization to drive consistency and standardization throughout the Supply Chain and Technical Operations throughout the site while also supporting the network.
Create, develop, and sustain a “can-do” climate and high levels of frequent communication, cooperation, rewards and recognition, training, and mutual support among departments.
Demonstrate technical expertise of plant machinery; equipment; processing; blending; extraction; shelf-stable products, quality, and/or other requisite technical knowledge to engage in overall direction, meaningful conversation across functions, and leadership of managers across the plant.
Demonstrate clear integrity and a sense of ethics and responsibility to the plant and its employees daily, serving as a role-model for others.
Respond effectively and work cross-functionally within the organization particularly with other plants and corporate leadership.
Effective partner with Human Resources and others in a union environment Perform in a variety of capacities related to employment decisions throughout the employment life cycle. i.e., hiring, performance evaluation, retention, employee relations issues as appropriate etc.
Effectively implement, improve, and reinforce the company’s environmental health and safety programs and product food safety programs.
Ensure adherence to plant standards and procedures (including but not limited to GMP, AIB, FDA, IWS, Quality, Safety, Finance, ISO, HOPE, Danone Behaviors, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE).
As a fundamental piece of the organization, your responsibility is to participate and own the implementation and deployment of IWS system and its pillars (Leadership foundation, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE; Autonomous Maintenance; planned Maintenance; Focused Improvement; Education and Training; Environmental, Health and Safety; Quality; Organization; Supply Network; Early Equipment Management) with the objective of owning your space, owning your performance (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Mobilization, Nature) and owning your continuous improvement.