Maintenance Manager-Food

Indianapolis, Indiana

Worldwide Food Company.

As Maintenance Manager, you will lead the Plant Maintenance group and manage service operations:

Allocate labor to execute schedule jobs and dispatch for emergency requests.
Confirm with Production that plant is available, and isolations will be ready.
Confirm all materials and resources are available when required.
Follow-up to ensure work is complete and correct.
Build the maintenance team to ensure required skills and disciplines to maintain assets.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering – Weaver Popcorn Manufacturing, with dotted line accountability to the Plant Manager.

Responsibilities:

Your primary duties will be to …

Plan, schedule and coordinate all maintenance activities.
Supervise PLC / Maintenance Technicians.
Complete projects and making improvements within the time frame and parameters of the budget.
Develop work plans for maintenance (PM, PdM and Corrective work), providing the necessary information to enable the efficient scheduling, assigning and execution of maintenance work.
Perform purchasing duties, as required, ensuring adherence to purchasing policies.
Stage materials, as required.
Evaluate job feedback and make recommendations to improve future planned work.
Assist with budget preparation and tracking of expenditures.

Education: Preferred: AS or higher in Engineering or related field

Qualifications: Required

Minimum of 5 years of related experience required
Experience in the engineering maintenance field, including experience in a high-speed processing foods or pharms facility.
Experience applying maintenance principles, practices, concepts, and options, related to maintenance planning, scheduling, coordination and optimization.
Proficient with MS Office Suite (MS Excel, MS Project) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills with the ability to plan, prioritize, organize, and carry out work with minimal supervision.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with various levels of staff on technical issues.
Strong customer service and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
Ability to exercise independent judgement in dealing with technical matters.

Qualifications:

Experience in Food Manufacturing and design/build project management.
Experience in driving continuous improvement, tracking documented results in achieving to both product and process cost reductions.