Maintenance Assistant Manager

Brakebush Brothers, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Brakebush Brothers, Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking an experienced Maintenance Assistant Manager to lead maintenance supervisors and a team of technicians.

The role focuses on maximizing uptime, safety, and compliance with HACCP, USDA, and food safety standards across shifts and departments. The position requires a strong background in industrial mechanics, leadership, and project management, with certification milestones for ammonia refrigeration to be achieved over time.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years’ experience in an Industrial Mechanics/related position or equivalent technical background.
• 5 years in a leadership and/or project management role.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional communication.
• After one year, achieve operator 1 certification from an Ammonia Refrigeration training center.
• After 3 years, achieve operator 2 certification from an Ammonia Refrigeration training center.

Responsibilities

• Manages maintenance supervisors and technicians to meet and exceed maintenance standards.
• Leads response to line breakdowns and performs failure analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Mentors and develops associates, providing training and growth opportunities.
• Provides cost estimates and scope of work for new projects and reports monthly progress.
• Ensures compliance with Safety, GMP, SOP, SSOP, HACCP, SQF policies and participates in HACCP Team.

Skills

Leadership experience

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Industrial Mechanics degree or equivalent technical diploma

Tools

CMMS knowledge

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Maintenance Assistant Manager, Salaried, Shift not Applicable Req ID: 8784

City, State: Irving, TX

Reports to: Maintenance & Utilities Manager

Classification: Exempt

Summary

The Maintenance Assistant Manager leads and manages the maintenance supervisors, technicians and team and is responsible for the effective utilization of the maintenance team to address plant processes, equipment, and facility upkeep. With a One Team, One Mission approach, this position collaborates across all shifts and with multiple departments (Utilities, Production, Planning, Safety) to support consistent production, minimize downtime, and enforce HACCP, USDA, and food safety protocol, all while providing continued growth opportunities to our team members.

Essential Functions

• Manages the highly diversified activities of Maintenance teams and Apprentices, to track performance of the teams, planned repairs/projects, and preventative maintenance. Empowers supervisors and all maintenance team members to meet and exceed maintenance standards.
• Ensures effective response to line breakdowns. Leads team that Investigates and completes failure analysis on work order challenges and works through appropriate actions with teams to prevent future breakdowns.
• Provide a safe environment for continued growth. Mentors and motivates associates, providing training and development to optimize their performance and personal growth. Communicates performance standards to associates, recognizing and rewarding individual and team accomplishments and counseling performance problems. Ensures all associates have the resources and capabilities to effectively accomplish their responsibilities.
• Assists with new projects: Provides cost estimates, scope of work, time frame, warranties, etc. and provides monthly progress reports.
• Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures: Safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF. Member of HACCP Team.
• Provides back-up support to Maintenance / Utilities Manager and Supervisors: Fills in for manager during absences and rotates weekend PM coverage for supervisors as needed. Providing cross functional support with the utilities department.

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years’ experience in an Industrial Mechanics/related position OR an Industrial Mechanics’ degree/equivalent technical diploma and 5 years plant maintenance experience.
• 5 years in a leadership and/or project management role
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
• After one year this position will be required to achieve operator 1 certification from an Ammonia Refrigeration training center.
• After 3 years this position will be required to achieve operator 2 certification from an Ammonia Refrigeration training center.
• After 5 years this position will be required to fill in for Utilities Supervision as need.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in food manufacturing facilities (esp. poultry)
• Regulatory compliance knowledge, including USDA regulations, HACCP, GMP and Food Safety (SQF)
• Strong computerized maintenance management system knowledge
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will manage Maintenance supervisors and 10-20 Maintenance team members at the Irving facility.

Work Environment

Primarily office environment, with requirement to work in wide variations in environment temperature (-40-degree Freezers, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree production area, wet cold environment); noise, slippery floors and moving equipment in operations setting.

Physical Demands

Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, climbing ladders, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

Position Type

This is an exempt role; may be asked to change schedule and work off-shifts.

Travel

Some travel may be required in this position to assist in other facilities. (Less than 5%)

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.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

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