Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager Job Description 

Are you looking for an excellent opportunity in the field of commercial baking?  We have a great position at a well-known, consumer packaged goods company for a person to lead our maintenance efforts a large commercial bakery.  This is an exciting role to drive equipment reliability to deliver our high quality products to shelves and ultimately your table every day.   

General Position Summary:  

This person plays a vital role in ensuring smooth, efficient operations and striving for operational excellence.  He or she will lead and direct a maintenance team in a fast-paced environment to ensure that all equipment is operational and running to deliver needed product for sales’ needs.  He or she will be responsible for developing short- and long-term strategies around preventive, reactive and running maintenance programs.  He or she will collaborate positively with production, sanitation, quality, continuous improvement and other stakeholders to ensure operational success for the plant and minimized downtime. This leader will ensure team members embrace a positive collaborative environment throughout the facility to meet production goals. 

As much as technical aspects of the position, he or she will be responsible for leading, coaching, training and developing a high-performance maintenance team.  He or she will hold supervisors and employees accountable in all aspects of their roles including maintenance, positive culture, safety, quality, operational and financial metrics.    

Your Day-to-Day Essential Responsibilities 

We are committed to excellence in nourishing our consumers, customers, and employees by delivering great tasting, high quality baked goods with highest standards of trust integrity, and leadership.  The person in this position will help deliver this mission through achieving many activities: 

• Foster a positive culture of employee engagement, accountability and dignity and respect with all employees. Being a role model for living the company mission, values, mentoring and leading the department.  

• Communicate, motivate, and delegate effectively with all levels of the organization on all matters.  Maintain clear and open communication with team members and other departments. Share important information and updates relevant to the team’s work. 

• Establish, maintain, and set expectations for a clean, safe work environment in compliance with Company, Industry and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. 

• Lead and manage a team of maintenance technicians. Ensure proper staffing levels, assign tasks, provide guidance, ensure that all team members are well-trained and adhere to safety standards and company protocol.  Promote safety and ethical standards. 

• Grow team skills to meet changing demands. Mentor individual growth of each supervisor and technician on the team. Monitor employee performance, provide feedback, conduct performance evaluations, and set individual and team goals.  Provide constructive feedback to team members and recognize their accomplishments to enhance morale and motivation. 

• Address and mediate conflicts or issues that arise among team members, fostering a cooperative team dynamic. 

• Develop and implement maintenance strategies to ensure equipment reliability and availability. This includes routine inspections, preventive maintenance, and quick responses to equipment failure.  Lead the Maintenance function in providing both a reactive and pro-active, multi-skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment and facilities infrastructure. Responsible for all planning, oversight, monitoring and auditing of timely maintenance requirements.   

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance. 

• Increase the site operational effectiveness, improve on project delivery, mean time between failure and downtime reduction, and manage and implement maintenance improvement plans, driving Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). 

• Optimize equipment according to OEM standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality. 

• Analyze maintenance processes and work to improve efficiency and effectiveness, through the implementation of new technologies or methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, Predictive Maintenance, root cause analysis, risk mitigation and proactive problem resolution. 

• Create and manage the maintenance budget. This includes forecasting cost of repairs, spare parts, maintenance programs, capital e