Manager, Engineering and Maintenance

Role Purpose:

The Engineering & Maintenance Manager has department-level responsibilities for the entire engineering and maintenance group. This individual sets the vision for the maintenance organization by leading world-class programs in capital planning, preventative maintenance, machine reliability, parts inventory management, and continuous improvement. The successful manager will partner with internal and external experts to build quality, safety, and reliability into our processes to drive out defects and waste. Tasks are to be completed while maintaining the highest safety, food safety and quality, cost, and GMP standards in a high-speed manufacturing environment. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Capital Planning
  • Partners with the business team to develop multi-year capital plans aligned with business goals
  • Drives the plant investment strategy by ensuring that capital projects have strong returns for the business
  • Manages internal & external project owners to ensure that projects delivers on time, on budget, and delivers on committed benefits
• Reliability
  • Build processes and metrics that empower the Maintenance organization to improve plant uptime
  • Utilize data to identify the root cause of machine failures and put corrective actions in place to reduce mean time between failures
• Preventative Maintenance
  • Continuously improves the PM program to drive machine reliability
  • Works with internal and external machine experts to ensure equipment meets or exceeds expected life
• Parts Management
  • Develop plans to ensure that the facility carries the right parts to minimize business risk, while balancing cost
  • Partners with key vendors on managed inventory programs
• Plant & Facility Maintenance
  • Oversee the maintenance of plant utility systems and components for electricity, water, steam, gas, compressed air, warehouse coolers, air conditioning, heating, and ventilation.
  • Maintains property records, surveys, equipment history records, manuals, warranties, and maintenance/engineering resource materials.
• Maintenance & Engineering Leadership
  • Build capabilities within the maintenance team by providing effective onboarding of new hires and regular coaching, continued learning
  • Ensure priorities are met and activities identified by shift/day/week/month for maintenance team
  • Host regular strategic meetings with plant leadership to ensure alignment of strategic goals
  • Focuses on identifying root causes for machinery downtime and build into team’s scope of work
• Engineering Support
  • Maintains current drawings, schematics, and files for plant/facility structures, systems, and equipment
  • Maintains a master plan for future improvements/expansion of the plant
  • Prepares accurate and timely reports, statistics, drawings, and recommendations as required.
  • Interfaces with staff managers, outside contractors, and engineers related to facility upkeep, renovations, or construction.
  • Manage vendor services and support to meet operational goals, issues and projects while adhering to budget.
• Other duties as assigned

Education and/or Experience

• Required:
  • Minimum ten years’ experience in a Plant Engineering role or related capacity
• Preferred:
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in one or more relevant Engineering field(s), or equivalent knowledge with emphasis on mechanical, electrical, industrial, and civil engineering disciplines.

Supervisory Requirements:

• Manage Maintenance, Engineering, Facilities, performance management, payroll and training & development

Skills & Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of federal safety regulations and electrical codes.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures, government regulations, and general business periodicals.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as