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Maintenance & Reliability Manager at Eagle Foods in Waukegan, Illinois

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time





Job Description:

Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Overview

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and controlling all maintenance and reliability related activities that support production, warehousing, quality, sanitation, building maintenance, and plant design and layout activities.The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for building a maintenance reliability program by understanding resource allocation, cost, people leadership, and preventative maintenance model development. The individual selected will have proven abilities on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Project Management.

Responsibilities


  • Manages the reliability workforce, develops succession plans, skills assessments and training.

  • Directly manage 1 supervisor, 15 maintenance technicians, 3 leads, 2 automation and electrical technicians, 1 planner, and 1 tool crib coordinator (23 total).

  • Assures safe operation of plant utility systems and equipment.

  • Ensures compliance of air, water, sewage, or other form of pollutants per standards set by Federal, State, and Local governments.

  • Supervise and direct maintenance staff on safe operations and enforce LOTO, Food Defense, Food Safety & Food Quality Plans, GMPs, HACCP Program.

  • Develop and report weekly and monthly maintenance KPIs and connect in process results in the maintenance area (i.e. PM completion, % of schedule time as planned downtime for PM activity, maintenance labor utilization, mean time to repair, parts room inventory record accuracy, # of BDE activities completed) to output results (# of breakdowns, operating efficiency loss due to breakdowns)

  • Coordinate the maintenance department's use of the TPM root cause analysis tools to effectively identify the root causes of breakdowns and putting in preventative measures to avoid repeatable failure modes.

  • Lead maintenance department in equipment trouble-shooting through Root Cause Analysis, FMEA on complex machinery and lead/develop maintenance technicians to own the process.Typical equipment includes processing (equipment snack food production -wet and air popcorn poppers, extruders, fryers, chocolate application and tempering), primary packaging (equipment includes VFFS equipment), and secondary packaging (equipment includes labelers, tray and case formers, case packers, robot palletizers, stretch wrappers and conveyors).

  • Supervise and direct the planning and scheduling of all work through the auditing and management of the PM and Work order modules in the CMMS software program.

  • Lead the deployment of the planning and scheduling workflow to a sustainable process with stakeholder support, driving increased performance in proactive work metrics.

  • Lead methods and metrics to determine and increase the reliability of components, equipment and processes.

  • Controls the maintenance budget that provides for optimized spending to achieve the agreed-upon capacity and asset reliability.

  • Manage the parts room, spare parts inventory and CMMS system to ensure that the efficiency of planned and unplanned work are not negatively impacted by parts availability.

  • Support the operations with implementation in an accident and injury-free work environment through leadership by example,

  • modeling safe behavior, and supporting established safety initiatives, including GMP and housekeeping practices.

  • Ensure maintenance and reliability standards comply with applicable regulatory and Eagle quality standards. Ensure compliance with local, state and federal food safety guidelines, GMP's and PMO requirements for facility.

  • Continuously improve the operation by staying current with new technologies, consistent cost analysis, implementing sustainable

  • best practices, identifying non-value-added elements and modeling continuous process improvement.

  • Work under general direction of plant manager in performing detailed reliability studies and calculations of component/system reliabilities. Foster environment of zero downtime and quality holds through cross-training functionality with packaging and process operators regarding autonomous maintenance and equipment ownership.

  • Work with management in performing detailed reliability studies and calculations of component/system reliabilities. Foster environment of zero downtime and quality holds through cross-training functionality with packaging and process operators regarding autonomous maintenance and equipment ownership.

  • Consider impact of costs on recommended action plans for avoiding/correcting problems during the design phase or remedial action for correcting reliability problems on installed equipment; performs root cause failure analysis to help prevent failures.

  • Prepare diagrams, charts, drawings, calculations and reports to define reliability problems and make recommendations for improvements.

  • Provide expert support during the automation of processes and deployment of maintenance standards to assure compliance to regulatory and/or Eagle requirements and provide development/training.

  • Plan Capex and perform engineering research, design development, or manufacturing/process engineering assignments, including responsibility for major subsections of projects using general engineering practices influenced by the general theme of reliability principles.

  • Develop and lead projects that drive profitable growth through implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practices, operations reliability structure design, and project development, systems and processes.

  • Develop and lead maintenance replacement capital project planning and execution.

  • Maintains positive relations with all associates and ensures proper training is provided meet all technical and soft skills required of the associates.

  • Ensures facility and equipment meets all OSHA and Local, State, and Federal Regulations.

  • Performs all other duties as assigned.


Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (if any)

  • Accountability

  • Adaptability

  • Business Acumen

  • Coaching & Developing

  • Collaboration

  • Critical Thinking

  • Customer Focus

  • Dealing with Ambiguity

  • Delegation & Empowerment

  • Driving for Results

  • Initiating Action

  • Leading Change

  • Leading Teams

  • Professional/Tech Know & Skills

  • Self-Motivated


Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field

  • 10-14 years Operations Management including 3-5 years of Maintenance & Reliability Management

  • 7-10 years of people management and procedures

  • Demonstrated experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

  • Strong Project Management skills

  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Certification a plus

  • Strong mechanical/electrical knowledge and aptitude.

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office

  • While performing the duties of this job, frequent sitting, talking, hearing, and occasional standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting 50lbs, ability to adjust vision for close vision work. Exposure to airborne dust, high humidity and extreme heat are possible in the plant.





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