Maintenance Superintendent

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.

The Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for hands-on, day to day preventative and corrective maintenance for all Home Chef equipment.

Detailed Responsibilities

Operational Efficiency:

• Oversee and coordinate the daily operations of the maintenance department.
• Monitor equipment and systems to ensure efficiency and functionality. Lead projects in coordination with all plant departments to maximize utilization of automation / equipment to improve overall efficiencies.
• Liaise with other departments and external contractors or vendors.
• Manages the CMMS and ensures work orders are closed in a timely manner. Plan, schedule, and manage maintenance activities to ensure minimal disruption to operations.
• Prioritizes emergency as well as planned work orders to keep operations running and the equipment running reliably 

Project Management:

• Manage budgets, forecast costs, and ensure the department operates within financial constraints.
• Prepare maintenance reports and other documentation as required.
• Develops Preventative Maintenance tasks to keep equipment reliable for all existing and future equipment
• Manages spare parts inventory for all equipment and maintenance needs
• Conducts trends of work orders to understand which assets are bad actors
• Acts as site point of contact for all capital improvement work and helps manage project progress when corporate project manager is not on site

Training, Planning & Execution: 

• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations from team members and contractors
• Trains all maintenance team members on how to complete PMs
• Assists CI Manager with overall training and development of members of the CI team
• Plans day to day maintenance activities for the maintenance team and contractors 
• Ensures all planned work is executed for the maintenance team and contractors 
• Ensures all emergency work is prioritized and completed to prevent impact to operations 

Food & Employee Safety: 

• Ensures all equipment that is worked on is released to sanitation before returning to the operations team 
• Ensures all maintenance team members are trained and retrained on safe work practices (LOTO, elevated work, hot work, confined space, line breaks)
• Enforces safety standards and safe work practices for all Home Chef employees and contractors working on site. 

SOPs & Audits

• Ensures maintenance SOPs are developed and maintained up to date 
• Ensures documentation on all maintenance tasks are compliant with Food Safety best practices to ensure we are audit ready  

Communication & Leadership

• Communicates with other plant leaders on required maintenance work that could impact operations or put team members at risk 
• Communicates expectations to the maintenance team and leads by example 

Coaching & Development:

• Coaches maintenance team members on a daily basis 
• Coaches operations team on the work order process to ensure work is getting resolved in a timely manner

KPI Management: 

• Manages work order completion on a daily basis
• Manages equipment uptime and reliability to minimize production impact

This position requires 0% travel. 

Qualifications

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