Maintenance Manager

Darling Ingredients is looking to hire a full-time Industrial Maintenance Manager for our facility in Des Moines. Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a stable worldwide company? This position earns competitive pay, depending on experience, plus bonus opportunities based on performance. We also offer comprehensive full-time benefits, including full medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan, vacation time, and more. If this sounds like the right opportunity in a manufacturing environment for you, consider applying today!

ABOUT DARLING INGREDIENTS

We began as a family business in 1882 and have continued to grow into the world's leading innovative developer and producer of sustainable organic ingredients for a growing population. Headquartered in Irving, TX with regional offices in Cold Spring, KY and Des Moines, IA as well as production facilities across the U.S., we have over 10,000 employees across the globe. We repurpose and reuse rather than discarding what others might consider waste. We capture valuable ingredients and nutrients to help maximize what nature has to offer, providing components for a wide range of products that include pet food, fertilizer, and biofuel. Giving nature a second life is our second nature. Recently, Darling Ingredients was named one of the Top 50 Sustainability and Climate Leaders by Bloomberg and TB Media.

Our greatest assets are our employees. Our inclusive global workforce and their wide variety of skills, abilities, experiences, and perspectives have been critical in helping us consistently deliver best-in-class results around the world. In order to attract and retain employees who share our values of integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship, we offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, stability, and opportunities for career growth.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE MANAGER

Most of our production plants run 24/7, and our equipment is quite unique and not easily replaced. So, as an Industrial Maintenance Manager, your role in keeping our manufacturing equipment operational is critical to our success. You and your team evaluate and correct all mechanical and building problems that arise. Proactively, you maintain effective preventative and corrective maintenance procedures. Under your excellent leadership, the maintenance crew is inspired to keep everything clean and in good working order. Your style of management fosters teamwork, respect, accountability, and trust. You control all scheduling for your team. Safety is always your first priority! In fact, you are responsible for training new personnel on company and OSHA safety standards. You enjoy leading the amazing maintenance team that keeps our plant production optimal!

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for the supervision of the maintenance staff, and any corrective or preventative maintenance procedures within the plant.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• Evaluates and corrects all mechanical and/or building problems that may arise in the plant.
• Profiles direction and leadership for the maintenance crew and controls scheduling beginning to end.
• Implements and evaluates preventative maintenance program.
• Responsible for training and retraining personnel on Company safety procedures and safe operating standards of all equipment in accordance with company safety rules and in accordance with OSHA.
• Ability to provide leadership, coaching, and hands on training to maintenance personnel.
• Responsible for cleanliness of equipment, buildings, grounds and safety inspections.
• Responsible for inventory management of all plant equipment and parts.
• Responsible for implementing and embracing the 5S - Six Sigma process.
• Operates all equipment in accordance with company safety rules and procedures.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 1 years of experience with inventory management.
• 4 years of experience as a maintenance technician.
• 2 years of experience in a management position supervising hourly employees
• Must be able to work weekends. On call all shifts.

Good math skills, prior rendering experience, management experience in the agricultural industry, and experience with maintenance