Maintenance Manager

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At Idahoan Foods, we bring people and families together by providing high quality, convenient food that delights and nourishes lives. As a top 20 household penetration CPG brand, when you join our table, you’re joining a team that aims high and values collaboration, continuous improvement, sustainable sourcing and innovation, active engagement in the community, and doing the right thing. We understand that it’s our team members that serve as the foundation of our ambitious future and we’re committed to knowing you, growing you, and celebrating you.

Job Purpose

Maintenance Manager is responsible to coordinate and delegate maintenance for the entire plant (Facility, Packaging and Production) to ensure the plant equipment and structures are in good operating condition.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and direction to the maintenance department by managing a team of supervisors, technicians and support staff in completion and oversight of all maintenance-related work. 
• Actively manage employees, which includes, but is not limited to communicating job expectations, addressing performance concerns, managing attendance, issuing disciplinary actions when needed, investigating, and resolving employee issues, reducing turnover through employee engagement, and recognizing employees.
• Embrace a safety conscious attitude with direct reports and other team members and take responsibility for minimizing all incidents, injuries, and accidents on shift.
• Accurately and immediately report all incidents, injuries, and accidents and complete the required incident investigation and any other reporting requirements.
• Utilize equipment records for predictive and preventive maintenance. Develop maintenance procedures and ensure implementation of the maintenance plan. Develop and direct internal maintenance activities and spare parts management with the goal of safely achieving budgeted manufacturing equipment utilization, reliability, and efficiency.
• Work with Packaging and Production departments to coordinate and scheduled downtime to maintain equipment. Plan for and execute major overhaul of equipment.
• Collaborate with leadership team to prepare an effective budget for annual operations. Control material inventory to maintain equipment readiness while maintaining low-cost spare parts inventory.
• Drive employee performance by giving clear directions and expectations, then providing meaningful feedback to aid performance.
• Create a high-performance culture within your team where improvement suggestions are embraced.
• Contribute to the improvement of working procedures by constantly looking for solutions to ensure the best productivity results are achieved on equipment, while maintaining compliance with company procedures.
• Participate in the training of maintenance technicians and ensure that their skills have been validated in a timely manner in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Support, comply, and ensure complicity with Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures, Human Resource policies, Idahoan Foods Employee Handbook, Quality Assurance policies and procedures, Sanitation policies and procedures, and all other company policies and procedures.
• Engages interest and participation of employees and has a collaborative approach to working together.
• Actively committed to the development of employees.
• Communicate frequently and often with Plant Manager and/or Plant Engineering Manager to ensure compliance with maintenance plan.
• Provide regular training, counseling, and feedback to direct reports to provide maximum engagement and utilization of an employee’s skills and abilities.
• Actively participate in the recruitment and retention of team members with guidance and assistance from Human Resources.
• Takes an active role in improvement initiatives, including employee engagement initiatives, safety programs, employee training, IT initiatives, etc. Must ensure that direct reports understand, use, and embrace new improvement initiatives.
• All other duties, responsibilities, and projects as assigned or required.

Qualifications/Required Skills

Education and/or Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, or Engineering from an accredited college/university and five years’ experience in a packaging plant, or ten years’ experience in a manufacturing facility.
• Proficient with computers, including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, comprehend, and compose simple to complex instructions, policies, procedures, and correspondence.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Communicates proactively.

Reasoning Ability:

• Possesses strong analytical, quantitative, communication, problem-solving, and technical skills.
• Demonstrates the self-confidence and maturity to make decisions and solve problems with minimal direction.
• Organized and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to creatively apply experience, common sense, and a strategic business perspective to a variety of situations, processes, and people.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to maintain a high level of attendance.
• Strong customer service orientation and commitment to performance excellence.
• Demonstrates initiative in learning and performing tasks.
• Ability to work cohesively with others in a team setting.
• Accepts and is flexible regarding changes to assignments and accountabilities.

Work Environment

The position is located in a food processing facility. Thirty-five percent of time will be on the production floor and sixty-five percent of time will be in an office setting.  The noise levels on the production floor are usually loud, but in the office setting noise levels are low to moderate.  Frequently, exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, and moving mechanical parts.  Occasionally exposed to fumes and airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions.  Flexibility with work hours is required in order to accommodate a continuous run production schedule.

Alignment with Core Values & Competencies of the Company

Respect & Value Our People

• Instill trust
• Develop myself & others
• Inspire a shared vision
• Communicate effectively

Stay in Front of Change While Reducing Costs

• Challenge the status quo
• Connect the dots
• Grow in business acumen

Delight Our Customers

• Drive results
• Incite curiosity
• Seek collaboration

Food Quality & Safety

• Embrace accountability
• Achieve our best
• Be partner & customer focused

Benefits

• Annual Bonus Potential
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance for full-time team members
• PTO (Vacation, Sick, and Holidays) for full-time team members
• 401K match
• Company paid disability and life insurance policies
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Relocation package for out of state applicants