Senior Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

The Original Cakerie•Aurora, CO

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Dessert Holdings is looking for a Senior Maintenance Manager at their Aurora, CO facility to lead Maintenance practices across the plant. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability, maintainability, and availability of plant resources, with a specific emphasis on reducing overall deterioration losses. The ideal candidate will prioritize people safety and food safety, demonstrating strong technical and communication skills to build relationships across teams and empower team members to drive out losses. The hiring range for this position is $140,000 to $150,000 annually, with benefits including comprehensive medical plans, dental and vision insurance, paid vacation and holidays, and retirement contributions for eligible employees.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other related technical field, or equivalent Management Experience in Maintenance or Reliability field.
10+ years of leadership in a technical manufacturing environment, including manual to automated operations
5+ years of experience with CMMS systems
7 + years of technical manufacturing leadership of teams of at least 3 to 8 individuals with a total department of 35+ employees.
Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventative Maintenance) implementations
General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, and HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required.
Experience leading continuous improvement projects
Ability to influence plant leadership and drive cultural change within the plant in regard to Safety, Food Quality and Reliability

Nice To Haves

CMRP Certification
5+ years of experience in food/bakery manufacturing
Black/Green belt in Six Sigma and other continuous improvement tools

Responsibilities

Accountable for overall reliability and availability of equipment and control of maintenance labor and expense budget within the plant.
Responsible for leading execution of capital plan and executing small infrastructure projects.
Identify, select, and develop talent to ensure "bench strength" and continued development and advancement of top talent within the department.
Accountable for ownership of the Maintenance Department SWP Board, including the ability to coach leading and lagging KPIs to all levels of work force.
Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning & scheduling, lubrication, Predictive Maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tool/facilities and inventory management.
Partner with plant leadership and other teams to ensure equipment improvements are achieved through preventive and predictive maintenance tools and techniques, with a focus on eliminating specific losses around equipment deterioration.
Supporting Autonomous Maintenance Standard work practices around implementation of safety maps, centerlines, defect handling, clean/inspect/lube tasks to support planned stops to reduce unplanned downtimes.
Ability to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants limited resources on top losses.
Support, lead and assist with plant projects to ensure delivery of productivity goals.
Partner with Engineering team to ensure all RAMS deliverables are complete and implemented to support delivering project resource goals.
Partner with Quality team to ensure programs including FSQI, HAACP, GMP and CAPA are followed to deliver high-quality and safe products to our customers.