MAINTENANCE TEAM MANAGER I

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

 

We are looking to hire an Maintenance Team Manager immediately at our Brand Aromatics Manufacturing Plant in Lakewood, NJ.

 

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation

• Career growth opportunities

• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

• Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness

• Tuition assistance

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Leading and developing direct reports while fostering a team environment.

- Resource planning, daily management and implementation of key initiatives including Safety, Effective Maintenance, supporting sustained levels of Autonomous Maintenance and delivery of PR% improvements.

- Responsible for 3rd Shift Production Technicians performing complete sanitation washdown of the production environment.

- Responsible for ensuring adherence to quality preoperative inspections of sanitation thru audit and oversight in compliance with USDA requirements.

- Ensure critical machinery is identified and critical spares are in stock.

- Spare parts process leader/owner and storeroom manager. Power user and business process owner for CMMS.

- Ensure parts are issued to work orders.

- Ownership of all facility & equipment maintenance and associated budgets.

- Operation of maintenance storeroom.

- Audit CMMS system to ensure KPIs are being met.

- Meet Regional PM expectations.

- Operation of High-Pressure Boilers.

- Supporting and developing McCormick’s High-Performance Organization (HPO) Business Teams to ensure that information flow, personnel development, problemsolving, goal setting and process improvements are an integral part of the daily activities.

- Managing training needs for the PM group to ensure that skill levels are managed and advanced as needed to support plant equipment.

- Identifying, analyzing, and reducing equipment performance losses and elimination of repetitive loss events.

- Leading teams to develop cultural and actionable plans to ensure continuous improvement throughout the plant.

- Working cross-functionally to resolve issues.

- Managing cost spending/overtime/budget controls and scheduling

 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- High School Diploma or equivalent required

- 5 years of demonstrated maintenance experience in a manufacturing plant.

- 3 years of demonstrated experience supervising maintenance employees in a manufacturing plant.

- Demonstrated experience improving Process Reliability (PR%) and/or Overall Equipment Effectiveness

- Demonstrated experience with a CMMS, SAP, or other ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) tool.

- Demonstrated experience maintaining manufacturing equipment.

- Demonstrated experience delivering loss reduction in a manufacturing environment.

- Expert troubleshooter and strong problem solver with demonstrated experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis processes.

- Excellent interpersonal, team leadership, communication, and teamwork skills

- Ability to work independently with strong action-oriented focus.

- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours across three shifts as needed to meet business demands.

- Management of projects through to successful completion

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electro or another relevant technical field (Mechanical Engineering is ideal)

- Demonstrated experience in a productive team based / collaborative environment.

- Demonstrated planning ability and understanding of business decisions based on financial, inventory and customer service indicators.

- Demonstrated participative management and leadership skills.

- Experience in the flavor manufacturing industry.

- Experience managing projects/improvements through successful completion, including contractor management.

- Experience maintaining processing equipment.

- Total Productive Maintenanc