What you’ll do:
Leadership and Team Development Supervise and guide a team of maintenance technicians, providing guidance, training, and performance management. Coordinate daily maintenance activities, ensuring timely and efficient completion of work orders, daily and weekly schedules. Promote teamwork and continuous learning within the team.
Safety & Compliance
Promote and enforce a culture of safety by conducting risk assessments, safety audits, and implementing corrective actions as necessary. Foster a collaborative and safety‑conscious culture, championing health and safety protocols within the maintenance team, ensuring adherence to all OSHA, PSM, FDA, USDA, HACCP, SQF, and food safety standards.
Documentation and Reporting
Accurately track all maintenance activities, including repairs, parts usage, and downtime events. Utilize enterprise asset management system (EAM) for scheduling, tracking, and documenting team’s work orders and equipment history. Prepare KPI reports on reliability, maintenance costs, and uptime to share with management for awareness and improvements.
Operational Efficiency & Cost Management
Implement world‑class maintenance practices (TPM, Lean Maintenance, RCM) to ensure production targets are met with minimal downtime. Coordinate with production, sanitation, quality, and engineering teams to minimize production disruptions and ensure that maintenance activities are aligned with manufacturing schedules. Manage maintenance budgets, controlling costs while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing downtime.
Technical Expertise
Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, and technical issues that arise within the production process. Maintain expertise in manufacturing equipment, such as pasteurizers, homogenizers, fillers, packaging machines, and refrigeration systems, ensuring all machinery is operating at peak performance. Collaborate with engineering and operations teams on capital projects and equipment upgrades.
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
Develop, implement, and manage preventive maintenance programs to ensure equipment reliability and longevity. Monitor and assess the condition of equipment, using predictive maintenance tools (PDM) to prevent breakdowns and drive reliability. Conduct regular inspections and audits to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements, providing update feedback to technicians and planners. Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.
What you need to succeed:
Bachelor’s in Mechanical, Electrical, Biochemical or Biological, Engineering, Industrial Arts, or related technical field preferred; an Associate’s degree in a technical field will be considered.
1+ year of experience in Industrial work.
Demonstrated leadership experience in a team environment.
General computer skills; mechanical aptitude; interpersonal skills to work from a supplier oriented function.
Ability to travel up to 5%.
Schreiber Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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