What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner/CI position at Zausner Foods Corporation?
About the Role:
This position manages and assists in the completion of the day-to-day activities involving: improving maintenance, automation and manufacturing processes and developing maintenance personnel for optimum efficiency. Individual will lead preventative and autonomous maintenance process through continuous improvement.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Directly supervises the maintenance team and part orders;
- Direct the maintenance of physical assets of the plant to insure continued operation and attainment of line effectiveness, yields and costs;
- Direct the maintenance of building structures and facilities in including utilities;
- Manage and support any/all plant equipment, product trials, new installations and engineering projects;
- Support the operations team in reviewing operating standards, line speeds, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), yields and identify improvement opportunities;
- Develop long-term predictive and preventive plans to improve equipment sustainability, and attainment of line effectiveness, yields and competitive costs Manage maintenance to ensure optimized and competitive costs;
- Ensure compliance with all company, city, state and federal regulations;
- Ensure compliance to Safety, preventative maintenance policies and procedures;
- Conduct routine team meetings (daily/weekly/monthly as applicable), including continuous improvement routine meeting participation;
- Ensure efficient, safe and compliant operation of plant facilities; to include electrical, ammonia, steam, water and waste water functions;
- Maintain documentation and performance logs of employees;
- Provide yearly reviews for employees;
- Maintain the timekeeping system and SAP.
Competencies
Communication Proficiency
Initiative
Organizational Skills
Reults Driving
Accuracy
Decision Making
Leadership
Problem Solving/Analysis
Technical Capacity
Supervisory Responsibility
This position manages all employees of the maintenance department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. The employee works in a humid and wet environment at times and could also be exposed to cold conditions in the coolers.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use fingers to type. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must occasionally lift or move items up to or over 50 pounds.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
Travel
This position requires <10% travel. Occasionally travel is outside the local area and overnight.
Required Education and Experience
- High school diploma or equivalent;
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in industrial plant maintenance, preferably in food manufacturing environment;
- Ability to use basic shop mathematics; handbook formulas; to interpret simple blueprints or drawings, use a wide variety of tools or precision measuring instruments; may setup, re-tool, operate a somewhat complex machine;
- Electrical and pneumatic trouble shoots and repairs;
- Knowledge of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems;
- Inventory control;
- Preventative and predictive Maintenance;
- Computer proficiency.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Food Processing related area or equivalent combination of education and/or experience required;
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in a leadership capacity;
- Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong experience with fluid mechanics, refrigeration (ammonia systems), heat transfer process, building/plant construction and new equipment installation with sanitary design of USDA/3A sanitary design principles, OSHA, EPA and related regulations, industrial best practices engineering principles;
- Experience with waste water management systems.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
None is required for this position
Work Authorization/Security Clearance
Eligible to work in USA
Food Safety and Product Quality
This position is responsible for supporting the food safety management system and for communicating food safety issues to the Quality Department.
Affirmative Action Plan/Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Savencia Cheese USA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Salary : $65,000 - $80,000