Manager Maintenance

Title: Manager Maintenance

               

Location: Paterson, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Responsible for directing plant Processing Maintenance, Electrical Maintenance, Boiler and Refrigeration, Utilities, and Parts Room to ensure maximum production with minimal downtime. Incumbent to maintain an elevated level of productivity and employee morale.

Job Description

• Provide leadership and an example of safety in the workplace by participating in and enforcing all plant policies and procedures.  Be an involved member of the plant safety team and actively push for continuous improvement in the safety culture of the maintenance department.
• Be responsive to plant regulatory compliance programs and ensure the plant complies with corporate and federal (OSHA) requirements.  Specific responsibilities associated with Process Safety Management, Hot Work, Confined Space, Machine Guarding, Respiratory Protection, NFPA 70E, Hexavalent Chromium, and Freon programs.
• Promote safety throughout the entire maintenance organization.
• Ensure product quality and integrity meet established expectations.  Provide leadership to the maintenance team to effectively utilize Good Manufacturing Practices, and current food safety tools, to perform job tasks that align with plant quality expectations.
• Meet production requirements by coordinating maintenance activities with the production schedule, Production, Quality Assurance, Field, Human Resource, and Warehouse teams to ensure maximum production with minimal downtime.
• Provide effective leadership to direct the maintenance effort towards continuous improvement and ensure minimal mechanical downtime. Participate in Company Maintenance Standardization activities and align the plant team with company maintenance direction and improvements.
• Plan and schedule work with proper prioritization, set objectives/expectations, and hold personnel accountable for effective performance against targets.  Coordinate material and personnel requirements to ensure the best utilization of available resources promptly.
• Track and maintain accurate records on the operating conditions of all plant equipment.  Utilize and sustain effective metrics to measure maintenance team performance and Availability of Operational Equipment Effectiveness. (OEE – mechanical downtime) Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), Stops, Preventative Maintenance Compliance, Job Kitting, and Work Order Attainment.  Conduct regular team reviews of past 24-hour/weekend performance through Breakdown Analysis (BDA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practices to facilitate continuous improvement for plant uptime.
• Implement/sustain employee training and skills development programs.  Ensure that all employees are adequately trained and cross-trained in various specialties. 
• Monitor and maintain the computer-based preventive maintenance program to ensure the best utilization of the company, plant, property, and equipment and direct major repairs through well-coordinated and planned plant shutdowns.
• Stay abreast of state-of-the-art technology and new equipment innovations.  Explore and recommend the installation of feasible enhancements.  Implement modern technology into the maintenance program to drive practical improvements to the maintenance reliability program.  Leverage analytical and predictiv