McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Work Leader whowill work at the HVP, located in Hunt Valley, MD. 

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

Under the general supervision of the Maintenance Team Manager, manages and directs all activities and processes related to the daily management of predictive, preventive and proactive maintenance programs to improve process reliability (PR) while reducing maintenance costs. The incumbent will maintain packaging, blending and fermentation equipment in multiple departments and is responsible for the complete maintenance and inspection on individual pieces of equipment. This position will also support the core reliability processes (Autonomous Maintenance, Early Equipment Management, Training and Focused Improvement.)

Responsibilities include leading and developing direct reports while fostering a team environment, meeting or exceeding established goals (safety, sanitation , PR%, cost, waste, quality (Q% and 5S)), loss reduction, reliability improvement and other performance standards related to process and packaging systems. Supports and develops HPO teams to ensure that information flow / communication processes, personnel development, problem-solving, goal setting and process improvement (e.g. A3, PDCA, Breakdown Analysis and 5Why) are all integral parts of daily core work. This includes leading daily cross shift communications of relevant shift activities (adjustments, parts/settings changes, downtime, planned/unplanned work)

This position will be responsible for ensuring all safety incident reporting follows proper protocols; will ensure monthly, quarterly, yearly required training are completed for direct reports; will ensure required work orders are reviewed and completed daily and will develop actions from completed work orders. This role will also coordinate maintenance activities and people resources to meet operational objectives, monitors activities and results, makes assignments and leads the escalation process and decision making to drive closure to plant losses.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Acceptable attendance required.
• Meets standards in overall performance rating in most recent performance review.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five years of maintenance g experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate and solve problems, ability to diagnose mechanical problems and resolve minor mechanical and processing problems.
• Knowledge of CMMS, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), SAP or other ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) tool
• Demonstrated ability to perform changeovers and preventative maintenance on all production equipment.
• Demonstrated practice of leadership principles required and formal leadership training. 
• Demonstrated ability to pro-actively encourage continuous improvement and daily problem-solving initiatives
• Proven ability to coach, train and influence while demonstrating a deep respect for the capabilities of all people.
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking skills to determine risk assessment
• Experience effectively leading and facilitating team and cross-functional meeting.
• Ability to work overtime/weekends required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) pillar experience
• Demonstrated experience with Financial forecasting or budgeting 
• Demonstrated competency to operate all equipment in the business strongly preferred
• Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio
• Experience with high speed, food packaging and processing equipment

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.