Maintenance Lead - Days

Michael Foods, Inc.; Norwalk (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. in Norwalk, IA seeks a Maintenance Lead to drive maintenance and reliability efforts in our high-quality egg and French Toast product line. You will coordinate with the ARM team and plant staff to plan, schedule, and execute work orders, ensuring asset health and safe operations.

The role emphasizes preventive and corrective maintenance, technician coaching, and data-driven reliability improvements. A strong safety mindset and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Excellent administrative and follow-up skills to achieve maintenance and repair programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance team members to ensure safety, quality, delivery, and cost improvements.
• Execute preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence.
• Identify, develop, justify, and implement reliability and performance improvement projects.
• Keep accurate records in SAP and other documentation.
• Promote safety and food safety as core values.

Skills

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Safety

Communication

Time management

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate's degree / technical certificate

Experience in SAP

Tools

CMMS (MFI system)

SAP

Job description

Business Unit Overview

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Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa is a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area. We are known for knowing our neighbors and enjoying a great quality of life! Our location produces high quality precooked egg patties as well as various French Toast products.

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food

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Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa is a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area. We are known for knowing our neighbors and enjoying a great quality of life! Our location produces high quality precooked egg patties as well as various French Toast products.

Responsibilities

This role is DAYS, 6am - 6pm, 2-2-3 Schedule

Summary

The Maintenance Lead provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Lead will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The Maintenance Lead will partner with the maintenance workflow process team and will ensure that work orders for plant assets are in the CMMS backlog and are being planned and scheduled effectively. The Maintenance Lead will work with technicians to ensure that scheduled work orders are properly executed, followed through, documented and value of the job is captured and reported. They will promote, execute, mentor, and coach excellence in preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The Maintenance Lead will become a resource to the plant who constantly focuses on improving the operating condition of equipment and improving the skill sets and performance of the maintenance team. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance team members and tasks to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Execute and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
• Identify, develop, justify, and implement reliability and performance improvement projects
• Responsible for identifying, coordinating, and facilitating maintenance and reliability training for team personnel
• Lead / assist craftsman during maintenance assignments
• Lead technical troubleshooting tasks while assisting other plant personnel in a teaching environment
• Execute preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence
• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
• Keep accurate and up-to-date records (i.e., SAP data, training documentation, etc..).
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
• Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
• Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred
• 3 to 5 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
• Trained and competent in MFI MTL1, MTL2, & MTL3 skills preferred
• MFI People Leadership Essentials or equivalent training preferred
• Active Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) membership preferred
• Prior experience in SAP preferred.
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with superb time management skills.
• Excellent administrative and follow-up skills to achieve successful maintenance and repair programs.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.