Senior Manager, Maintenance

Monogram Foods•Haverhill, MA

6d•$135,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Senior Manager’s responsibility is to lead maintenance practices across the plant to ensure reliability, maintainability, and availability of all plant production resources (production and facilities), with a specific focus on overall deterioration losses. Ensuring that people’s safety and food safety come first, this individual is a confident leader with strong technical and communication skills, with the ability to engage and build relationships across all teams, including the ability to coach and empower team members to take ownership for driving out losses at all levels. Drive production and buildings and grounds support through tactical and strategic means. Tactically, this will include directing a skilled workforce to effectively troubleshoot and resolve real-time production issues. Whether that’s by leading the effort with technical expertise, dispatching staff to resolve, or coordinating repairs with outside contractors. This leader will be adept at making quick, accurate assessments and providing the highest levels of support. Strategically, the Maintenance Senior Manager will succeed by managing multiple initiatives simultaneously to provide long-term solutions that resolve the root cause of process interruptions. The Maintenance Senior Manager position is a key role that interfaces with many internal customers – Safety, Quality, Production, Warehousing, Continuous Improvement, and Engineering. This position also leads or assists in the execution of plant projects, corporate engineering projects, and manages the maintenance staff.

Requirements

B.S. in Engineering from an accredit university/college.
Minimum of 5 years of industrial experience in a food manufacturing environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems.
Computer literate (MS Word, MS Excel, and other appropriate MS Office Suite applications)
5+ years of experience with CMMS systems
Experience with ERP systems, trend analysis, and data historian systems
Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventive Maintenance) pillar implementations
Minimum of 5 years of industrial experience in a food manufacturing or CPG environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems.
General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required.
Strategic thinking with strong business acumen.
Exceptional project management and organizational skills.
Deep understanding of food manufacturing processes and cost structures.
Proven ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams.
Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex, high-visibility projects.
Collaborative leadership style that builds trust and drives results.
7 + years of leadership of teams of at least 5 individuals.
Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods and move throughout the facility as needed.
Visual and hearing acuity sufficient for business and technical environments.
Valid driver’s license and ability to travel domestically up to 25%.
Able to lift 50 lbs.
Works in a plant and in a general office environment.
Will be required to wear suitable Personal Protective Equipment.
May be exposed to the loud noise of plant machinery.
May be exposed to extreme temperatures, wet, humid conditions, and inclement weather.
May be exposed to oils and airborne particles.
May be required to work near moving mechanical parts

Nice To Haves

CMRP, CRL, ARP or other maintenance and reliability certifications
Black/Green belt in Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement tools.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to the Maintenance Department in all aspects of their work, specifically through Gemba walks, one-on-one coaching, and observations.
Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, and monitors an Asset Maintenance and Reliability Plan that includes: Value-added preventive and predictive maintenance tasks Effectively managed spare parts inventory Fully integrated and utilized CMMS System Proactive Planning and Scheduling processes Standardized maintenance KPIs
Lead continued improvement in teammate relations both within department and cross functionally
Collaborate with other sister sites to solve problems and broadly share learnings
Champions Safety initiatives through active participation of EHS team and Safety leader of maintenance team.
Ensure all equipment and the facility infrastructure is operated and remain in strict food safety compliance.
Supervise direct reports: Facilities and Utilities Engineer Maintenance and Reliability Manager MRO Buyer Maintenance Planner
Identifies and drives maintenance process improvement opportunities.
Ability to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants' limited resources on top losses.
Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning & scheduling, lubrication, Predictive Maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tool/facilities, and inventory management.
Supports plant and department KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
Accountable for overall reliability and availability of equipment and control of maintenance labor and expense budget within the plant.
Uses failure analysis techniques like FMEA to identify and eliminate chronic problems.
Develops and implements technician training plan
Identify Capital needs with respect to production, environmental, safety, building & grounds, and be responsible for them from inception to completion. Includes estimating and funds procurements, specifying equipment, working with vendors and outside contractors, supervising safe onsite work, maintaining budget, and scheduling with the plant production.