Full-Time Corporate Maintenance Manager

This is a remote position with travel requirements of up to 50%. For optimal support and accessibility, applicants are encouraged to reside within 30 miles of a supply chain center located in Michigan, Arizona, or Colorado.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
This position will be responsible for leading our corporate maintenance team and leading the corporate maintenance program for 30 Supply Chain locations. The goal of this program will be to identify, manage, and reduce asset reliability risks.
This employee will be tasked with leveraging and managing the new CMMS program across the supply chain centers, and building on maintenance processes, and documentation. Incumbents in this position will have ownership of results in all maintenance activities in our domestic and Canada centers and may consult on international projects. This role will partner with key stakeholders in Procurement, Quality, Safety, IT, and Finance to ensure alignment.

Lead Maintenance Activities

• Execute and maintain preventative maintenance systems and processes
• Update, maintain, and generate reports from CMMS
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment
• Improve and maintain critical spare parts lists
• Evaluate cost structure of national/regional spare parts program
• Works with Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations of equipment
• Participate in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans and inspection criteria
• Participate in the final check out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment, spare parts, and technical service providers
• Create FMEA analysis of legacy and future equipment and action plans to mitigate risks
• Perform and supports local teams in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Work with Supply Chain Centers and WRC to perform analyses of assets and action plans to improve:
  • Asset Utilization
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  • Remaining useful life
  • Mean Time Between Failures(MTBF)
  • Mean Time to Repair(MTTR)
• Provides technical support to Supply Chain Centers as needed
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.
• Develop and manage the execution of the Maintenance training plan

Planning and Reporting

• Development of a 5-year Maintenance department plan
• Model future activities and associated financials
• Generate status reports on a monthly basis
• Inspect future and legacy locations to determine their fit for new processes and equipment

Additional Supporting Activities

• Supply Chain Center visits
• Lead or Support Engineering or other functional projects as necessary
• Develop vendor relationships (preferred contractors, vendors, etc.) with Procurement team

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree with emphasis on Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or Civil Engineering.
• Min 5-10 years of experience working in Manufacturing Maintenance or Reliability roles.
• Experience working in Food Manufacturing is preferred
• Prior experience managing exempt and professional level staff
• Experience implementing, managing, and leading KPI management across multiple centers or teams
• Experience managing contractors and vendors
• Experience in locations with refrigeration systems is a plus
• Proven Time Management skills
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and strong focus on accuracy
• Strong knowledge of maintenance and reliability principles
• Strong working knowledge of state and local regulations governing standards
• Strong oral/written communication skills
• Able to travel up to 50%
• Experience using applicable maintenance software tools.
• Proven ability to make independent decisions with minimal supervision, quickly assess new technologies and identify applications, manage complex issues concurrently and work under strict deadlines and in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to influence others, build consensus, lead meetings, and resolve conflict
• Excellent negotiation and organizational skills
• Experience with interacting and gaining consensus from various levels of the organization.

Software Experience

• Experience as an administrator in modern CMMS
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Project)
• AutoCAD, Revit, or another similar program a plus

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