Team Leader Maintenance - Electrical

Title: Team Leader Maintenance - Electrical

               

Location: Richland, 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

               

Supervises repair and maintenance activities in the assigned area, establishes schedules, preventive maintenance programs, parts inventory, and assists with development of new projects and capitals to minimize plant downtime and maintenance costs.

Must have leadership skills and be able to accomplish assigned functions and tasks through subordinates. Serves as key communicator for area of responsibility. Ensures work force effectiveness by eliminating potential for delays and by setting expectations for quality, duration and feedback for trade persons.

Job Description

• Maintains and promotes safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.  Directs employees for holding safety huddles, safety audits, and participation in safety programs.  Setting expectations for housekeeping in the shop and on the job site and following up. 
• Analyzes mechanical and operational problems of Electrical equipment through personal observations, maintenance programs and operator feedback and plans for and takes corrective actions. Walks the floor to review work or equipment in action. Review work plan for variances.
• Conducts Daily/Weekly Operating Report with employees to address variances and Operating Equipment Effectiveness gaps.
• Coordinates, arranges, and supervises or provides for the completion of corrective and electrical preventative maintenance in accordance with standard operating procedures, of all processing practices, and electrical equipment to minimize plant down time.
• Coordinate tasks, critiquing on-going and finished work, sets priorities and other responsibilities as authorized. Generates follow-up work orders from off conditions noted on Preventative or Emergency Maintenance where a repair cannot be correctly completed.
• Generates follow-up work orders from work lists.  Approves Work Orders and Kits.
• Review and adjust schedules for work load and labor.  Adjust Work Order priority.
• Reviews Break Down Analysis and suggest plan of action or recommendation to root cause.
• Provides recommendations for budgeting and maintains cost control for area of responsibility. Including but not limited to recommendations for the One Shot Program. Complete assigned One Shot Projects.
• Provides support to the Capital Program. Including but not limited to execution of assigned capital projects. Provides recommendations to the capital program based on reliability improvement plan for area of responsibility.
• Develop Reliability Improvement Plan for area of responsibility.
• Maintains working relationship with Contractors and Vendors to maintain equipment reliability and keep abreast of equipment obsolescence and new technology. Maintain Vendor contact for sourcing and ordering materials and supplies for direct repair.
• Provide supervision and management to Contractors and Vendors on site.
• Provide supervision and management on Maintenance Repair and Overhaul inventory levels for area of responsibility to meet R&M and financial objectives of the Facility. Including but not limited to providing inventory recommendations based on equipment Bill of Materials and Spare Parts List.
• Implement Operating Equipment Effectiveness improvements. 
• Schedules, supervises and directs the Electricians in all maintenance efforts of production equipment.
• Responsible for implementing and sustainin