Plant Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)
About The Position
Dessert Holdings is seeking a Plant Maintenance Manager for its Pembroke, North Carolina facility. The manager leads plant maintenance practices to ensure the reliability, maintainability, and availability of plant resources, with particular focus on equipment deterioration losses. The role prioritizes people safety and food safety and calls for a confident leader with strong technical and communication skills who can build relationships across teams and coach and empower team members to take ownership of loss reduction. The manager is accountable for equipment reliability and availability and for maintenance labor and expense budgets. The role leads the execution of the capital plan and small infrastructure projects, develops departmental talent, and owns the Maintenance Department SWP Board and associated KPIs. It establishes and maintains maintenance standards and collaborates with plant leadership, Engineering, Quality, and other teams to reduce losses, deliver productivity goals, complete project deliverables, and ensure food quality and safety programs are followed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or another related technical field, or equivalent management experience in Maintenance or Reliability.
- 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems.
- 7+ years of technical manufacturing leadership experience managing teams of at least 3 to 8 individuals.
- Experience leading TPM implementation and/or Autonomous Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance implementations.
- General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs.
- Experience leading continuous improvement projects.
- Ability to influence plant leadership and drive cultural change regarding safety, food quality, and reliability.
Nice To Haves
- CMRP certification.
- 5+ years of experience in food or bakery manufacturing.
- Black or Green Belt in Six Sigma and other continuous improvement tools.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Responsibilities
- Account for overall equipment reliability and availability and control the plant maintenance labor and expense budget.
- Lead execution of the capital plan and execute small infrastructure projects.
- Identify, select, and develop talent to build departmental bench strength and support advancement.
- Own the Maintenance Department SWP Board and coach employees on leading and lagging KPIs.
- Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning and scheduling, lubrication, predictive maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tools and facilities, and inventory management.
- Partner with plant leadership and other teams to improve equipment through preventive and predictive maintenance, focusing on equipment deterioration losses.
- Support Autonomous Maintenance standard work, including safety maps, centerlines, defect handling, clean/inspect/lube tasks, and planned stops to reduce unplanned downtime.
- Use data analysis to identify planned and unplanned losses and direct resources toward the most significant losses.
- Support, lead, and assist with plant projects to deliver productivity goals.
- Partner with Engineering to ensure RAMS deliverables are complete and implemented to support project resource goals.
- Partner with Quality to ensure FSQI, HACCP, GMP, and CAPA programs are followed to deliver high-quality, safe products.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
