Maintenance Manager
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Two generations of families—and counting—have grown up on Horizon Organic® milk. From the start, as the leading organic milk producer in the U.S., Horizon has been committed to delivering innovative, nourishing dairy that growing families can rely on. In 2023, Horizon Organic became a brand of Platinum Equity. Today, Horizon works with more than 500 farmers across the U.S. to bring high-quality, certified organic milk to consumers. For more information on Horizon’s full portfolio of organic dairy products, visit Horizon.com.
Horizon Organic is seeking a Maintenance Manager to oversee our maintenance processes in our Salt Lake City Plant. The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for maintenance management at the food manufacturing plant with a focus on predictive/preventive maintenance and machine reliability. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for planned maintenance pillar activities and provides leadership and guidance to his team on a 24/7 basis. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for developing planned maintenance strategies that support safety, people engagement, quality, cost, reliability and continuous improvement initiatives. The Maintenance Manager focus is to ensure all equipment performs in the highest efficiency, with minimal unplanned down time to sustain acceptable plant performance efficiency (PE).
Horizon Organic Benefits:
- Competitive Starting Salary
- Bonus Eligibility
- Medical, Dental and Vision after 30 days
- Flexible Time Off per company policy upon hire
- 401K with Company Match eligible on the 1st of the month after 30 days, immediate vesting
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Employee Discount Program
This role will be onsite at the Salt Lake City plant.
About the Job:
Leadership / Management
- Manages site maintenance team.
- Provides positive role models for all plant personnel in safety, quality and productivity
- Provides guidance, instruction and mentoring for the maintenance staff.
- Provides periodic feedback to employees in the areas of job knowledge, performance and development.
- Providing and organizing training where needed to improve employee skills is critical to the success of the business.
- Manages employee overtime and equipment reliability to achieve lowest maintenance costs for the plant.
- Responsible for resolving maintenance employee relations issues.
- Provide support and leadership to address repetitive problems to root cause, spend time on the floor to understand the problems and collect data.
- Provide strong leadership to properly drive the accomplishment of the Preventive Maintenance program for the packaging equipment.
- Responsible to track the Performance Efficiency (PE) for the plant and providing the support needed to proactively make changes when performance is not achieved.
- Ensure his team is fully staffed and reorganize the team when needed according to business needs.
Maintenance
- Directs maintenance prioritization, planning and execution for the site.
- Prepares facility maintenance and maintenance projects between contractors and maintenance.
- Manages maintenance schedulers in scheduling of work, developing and setting objectives, monitoring of progress, and the evaluation of results.
- Analyses problems and/or trends in plant maintenance and recommends appropriate resolutions to minimize production downtime for all areas of the plant.
- Staff directs staff activities to provide quality, cost-effective support for all electrical, mechanical, information, and process control systems while assuring compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
- Evaluates major sources of machine downtime and creates action plans to improve machine efficiency and reliability.
- Communicates with the operating departments to maintain system awareness and identify opportunities and provide technical expertise for optimization of process control systems.
- Responsible for Wastewater treatment plant.
- Coordinate team meetings to collectively develop a RC-PS to address repetitive problems.
- Consider having time flexibility for days, nights and weekends if needed when business KPI’s are compromised due to equipment reliability issues.
- Provide supportive leadership to drive positive culture in regards of Safety, Quality and Productivity.
- Strong ability to communicate with the teams across the plant.
- Demonstrate positive Leadership and understanding about company policies and reinforcement and alignment with CBA policies and rules.
- Ensure the Equipment Interventions (Yellow card process) is followed 100% of the time to avoid micro risks.
- Demonstrate strong ability to develop and sustain multifunctional cross training to all hourly employees, including evaluations to identify skills opportunities and develop training plans.
Safety / Environmental / Compliance
- Leads the safety effort for the maintenance team.
- Identifies safety issues that may arise due to equipment modification.
- Maintaining a clean and orderly environment conducive to safe work habits encourages employee accountability.
- Ensures the plant is compliant with local state and federal rules in the area of maintenance equipment
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field preferred.
- Minimum ten years’ experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment, food preferred with maintenance, engineering, project management and/or production management required.
- Minimum of five years management experience
- Experience in mechanical and/or systems related technical training or equivalent experience.
- Functional understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance programs, work order systems and world-class maintenance systems is desired.
- Previous experience using a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) preferred.
- Must possess analytical troubleshooting skills.
- Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Continuous improvement/lean manufacturing experience preferred.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, Timekeeping software, PM management software
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- While performing duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit, talk and/or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; taste and/or smell
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Requires normal range of hearing and vision (including colors) to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports and laboratory results
Work Environment:
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and may be exposed to loud noises in the plant. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to extreme cold, risk of electrical shock and vibration
DISCLAIMER: The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Horizon Organic Dairy is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, genetic testing information, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military service, status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam-era veteran, disability or any other consideration made unlawful by state, federal or local law. All employment practices and personnel actions, including hiring, termination, job assignment, compensation, discipline, and access to benefits and training are made without regard to any status protected under applicable law. It is our policy to select the most qualified person for each position in the organization, whether that is a new hire, a transfer to another position, or a promotion.
This policy applies to all persons involved in the operation of Horizon Organic Dairy, including, but not limited to, employees, vendors, customers and their employees, contract and temporary workers and anyone else on the Company’s property.
