Team Leader Maintenance

Title: Team Leader Maintenance

               

Location: Delhi, LA

               

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

               

This position supervises the daily activities of the Boiler and Refrigeration maintenance crew to ensure maximum productivity and plant reliability. This position will be heavily involved in the operation and maintenance of the plant’s Boiler as well as the Ammonia Refrigeration system and will have specific duties in the PSM program.

Job Description

Roles:

• A leader, an administrator, and a communicator.
• Responsible for the effectiveness of the crew.
• Committed to the quantity and priority of work necessary to ensure the reliability of the Plant. 
• Serves as a key communicator.
• Coordinates fulfillment of employee training needs.

• Ensures work force effectiveness by eliminating potential for delays and by setting expectations for quality, duration and feedback to craft persons.

Responsibilities:

         

• Promotes a safe working environment and safe work practices by:

• Ensuring that meaningful safety meetings are conducted with the crew.
• Identifying and eliminating safety hazards in the workplace.
• Supporting plant safety program. 
• Striving to improve the safety performance of the maintenance craft persons through counseling and training.
• Setting expectations for housekeeping in the shop and on the job site and following up.
• Ensuring that unused materials are returned to stock when jobs are completed.
• Ensuring compliance inspections are completed.

• Handles administrative responsibilities by:

• Completing all required paperwork accurately including time cards, completed work orders, Precision Maintenance and Reliability Forms, Preventive Maintenance Checklists and Permits, etc.
• Setting expectations and completing performance evaluations with employees on an annual basis.
• Disciplining employees if required.

• Manages work force by:

• Managing safety, quality, duration, cost and thoroughness of the craft person’s work.
• Identifying and enforcing expectations and minimum acceptance criteria for the quality of work.
• Providing technical assistance to the maintenance craft persons.
• Handling craft persons’ concerns.
• Identifying and developing training for continuously improving the skills of the craft persons.
• Evaluating the craft person’s job performance and developing and implementing appropriate measures for improvement.

• Ensures the effective use of maintenance resources by:

• Working with crew Planner to meet crew needs.
• Working with Planner and area production leader to schedule daily activities for the area crew and backshift.

• Generates printed work orders to distribute to the crew for scheduled work.
• Ensures work schedule and work orders are posted
• Matches craftsmen with skills required to do the work.
• Schedules crew to develop job skills.

• Developing, coordinating, and executing plans for emergency work.
  • Challenges emergency work that disrupts the daily schedule.
  • Follows up on job overruns and interruptions.
    • Holding employees accountable for quality, productivity and efficiency.
    • Audit job site periodically to ensure work is progressing as planned.
    • Keeping the Area Production Leader properly abreast of barriers which may impact the weekly schedule.
    • Ensuring that the next job is always ready.
    • Managing overtime and making overtime assignments.
    • Identifying ways to reduce maintenance costs.
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