Maintenance Lead at Mars, Incorporated in Henderson, North Carolina

Job Description:

Job Description:

A Maintenance Lead's role is to effectively and efficiently communicate, facilitate, coordinate, and prioritize all maintenance activities within their area. This position requires working closely with the System Technician, Operations, and Quality to ensure consistent product quality, productivity and safety. The Maintenance Lead will make assignments and monitor progress, coordinate training, schedule and develop associates in their area of responsibility. The Maintenance Lead is responsible for developing and implementing continuous improvement activities that address safety, quality, and efficiency. The Maintenance Lead is responsible for working with the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler and System Technician to ensure detailed planning of planned work in their area. The Maintenance Lead will participate in weekly planning meetings with the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to align on work to be scheduled. Leads must have in-depth knowledge of the entire maintenance area and be recognized as an expert in multiple technologies. The Maintenance Lead role requires strong leadership, communication, interpersonal and team building skills to support site objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Quality and Food safety Responsibilities

• Train technicians to interpret data (trend data, identify root cause, implement solutions).


• Train technicians to formulate actions to address non-conformance issues.


• Analyze and develop permanent solutions to prevent chronic or significant quality issues.


• In depth knowledge of quality systems and all work instructions for area. Provide input for improvements/changes to work instructions.


• Oversee of quality or product conformance issues to ensure corrective/preventative actions are implemented and completed.

Safety Compliance

• Train technicians on safe operating procedures.


• Provide input to any investigation for area of responsibility.


• Provide input as appropriate regarding safety.


• Ensure working conditions are Normal and enforce safety requirements.


• Provide input to project safety reviews on systems in area.

Implement Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement by developing and implementing systems that optimize all phases of the manufacturing process and support key business objectives (waste, labor, reliability, ATS, etc.).


• Lead the development of associates to perform root cause analysis to eliminate breakdowns.


• Provide input to feasibility and change management requests.


• Resource to other sites and across areas.

Maintenance Lead

• Lead the development of standard work instructions that reflect best practices and follow-up to be sure they are used appropriately.


• Conduct training (operational and technical) to ensure associates can perform standardized work within given time frames.


• Support role in coaching and development of Operations associates TPM journey.

Equipment Maintenance and Sanitation

• Effectively communicates and schedule PMs and improvements to area.


• Identify, report and help any potential product contamination issue.


• Maintains clean work environment including 5S adherence and follow through to ensure completion of action plans to address sources of contamination.


• Support role in cleaning and sanitation of area.

Performance Management & Associate Engagement

• Jointly agree, with the Manager, job and development expectations for associates by area/job


• Communicate job and development expectations to associates


• Provide performance coaching and feedback to associates on a regular basis


• Involved with hiring decisions along with Manager


• Team Engagement including facilitation of team building discussions


• Provide supplemental input for associates performance reviews

Recognized Expert for Maintenance

• Maintenance coordinator role: Provides non-exempt leadership to maintenance shift technicians ensuring efficient logistics and use of resources throughout the entire shop floor process (full-time and contractor manpower).


• Prioritizes all of the maintenance activities such as unplanned work orders, continuous improvement activities and operational preventative maintenance programs.


• Monitor CMMS accuracy for their crew.


• Demonstrated ability to resolve non-routine issues at root cause and incorporate into preventive actions.


• Detailed knowledge of area including process flow, rates, critical control points, metrics (ATS, TRS, costs).


• Ability to troubleshoot routine and non-routine issues and direct maintenance team resources towards achieving safe, timely, cost efficient solutions.


• Develop best practices for area and ensure best practices are followed.


• Lead or participate in continuous improvement efforts.


• Effective communications. Attends and leads on maintenance issues in shift overlaps, quality reviews, and daily meetings as required.


• Ability to complete root cause failure analysis on issues involving reliability, product/packaging defects, and downtime.


• Effectively works and communicates with all departments (Operations, Planning, Engineering, R&D, Quality etc.)

Maintenance Lead

• Assists Reliability Manager with daily staffing. This includes vacation planning for areas of responsibility.


• Collect and report shift information

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Leadership Skills


• Communication Skills


• Interpersonal/Team Working Skills


• Job Knowledge


• Continuous Improvement


• Problem Solving Skills


• Training Skills


• Initiative


• Work Standards

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma or equivalent required


• Able to lift up to 50 pounds repetitively


• Must be able to adapt to temperature and environmental extremes from hot to cold, dust, dirt and chemicals


• Must be able to climb stairs


• Job function requires flexibility in schedule and after-hours responsibilities.


• Good communication skills


• 5+ years of manufacturing experience in technical capacity in maintenance controls, electrical, or mechanical


• Successful completion of a background check and substance abuse screen

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of manufacturing experience in technical capacity in maintenance controls, electrical, or mechanical.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.