Manager Plant Engineering

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Position Title: Manager Plant Engineering 

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Othello 

Requisition ID: 27111 

 

 

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About McCain: McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. McCain Food’s facility in Othello, Washington employees over 600 people on site, and we make all types of frozen potato products, including the iconic Smile Fries.

 

The Plant Engineering Manager will be responsible for providing total maintenance and engineering support for all facilities associated with the Othello site to ensure maximum operational potential is realized.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To provide direction for maintaining and operating all physical equipment and facilities to ensure proper utilization.
• To investigate and, where possible, eliminate any mechanical or maintenance problem which would affect production schedules.
• To take timely and appropriate corrective action to control unfavorable expenditure trends which would result in exceeding appropriation funding, expense budgets, etc.
• To maintain and progressively improve a Preventive Maintenance Program.
• To prepare and submit reports on a timely basis, including annual operating and capital budgets, and to work within these budget guidelines.
• To diligently work on, and strive for, operational efficiency through McCain Quality Performance and other mechanisms for profitability.
• To develop Departmental employee relations by continuing communication of all information affecting them and through the conducting of departmental safety meetings so as to develop a safe and healthful working attitude.
• To maintain open lines of communications between departments and employees
• Conduct special studies as assigned, or perform self-initiated studies designed to improve Departmental services with associated economics.
• To direct or assist in the design of Factory improvement or capacity expansion projects.
• To prepare, or assist in the preparation of, appropriations with memoranda of justification.
• To maintain close follow-up cost data supplied by Finance Department.
• To direct the sale of salvage materials to obtain maximum dollar return.
• To maintain and coordinate an on-going management development program for the supervisory personnel to enhance their managerial potential.
• To possess and keep current on the most advanced information of manufacturing maintenance and the overall maintenance area.
• Oversee purchasing and stockroom operations in order to reduce costs.
• Manager, or his/her designee, is responsible for annual and/or ongoing training.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The incumbent works closely with each Staff member, in particular the incumbent has a continuing communicative relationship with the Production Managers, Field Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Human Resources Business Partner, and their respective teams at all echelons.  
• The incumbent outside contacts involves the establishment and maintenance of effective relationships with utility companies, insurance companies, and state and federal regulatory agencies. They establish and maintain a reasonable reservoir of desirable outside contractors and works closely with them in the factory areas where they may perform work. Incumbent is responsible for analyzing all factory purchases and to seek ways to reduce costs through negotiations with vendors.
• The incumbent is expected to recommend to and consult with the Plant Manager and the Production Managers in planning for improvements to current methods or procedures to assist operations departments in realizing the highest dollar return on equipment investments through adherence to proper operation procedures, preventive maintenance techniques, project planning, setting work order priorities, work order control, etc. 
• This position requires the incumbent to be available for consultation during all hours the site is under production as well as being available for weekend work on a routine basis. The incumbent must have established and must maintain a high degree of autonomy in their decision making and planned actions; there are occasions where the time for prior review of planned actions is not allowable as delays cou