Maintenance Manager

Bimbo QSR; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Bimbo QSR in Denver, CO seeks a Plant Engineer to lead and support bakery plant engineering and maintenance. You will helm capital planning, budget management, and ensure GMP, food safety and environmental compliance across the plant.

The role focuses on developing maintenance programs, solving technical issues, and driving safety and performance improvements through KPI monitoring and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
• 5–10 years of experience in predictive / proactive maintenance.
• Experience with administration of a computerized preventive maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Strong leadership, teamwork and communication skills.
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and perform basic arithmetic.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, management and technical support for plant engineering and maintenance activities.
• Oversee annual capital plan and budget administration.
• Ensure GMP, Food Safety, Personal Safety and Quality policy compliance.
• Develop and implement preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance programs.
• Analyze and resolve technical maintenance issues to improve equipment reliability.
• Establish KPIs and reports on downtime, PM completion, overtime, and maintenance costs.
• Communicate status of engineering/maintenance activities to plant operations.
• Maintain compliance with environmental laws and company policies.

Skills

Leadership

Preventive maintenance

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Business Administration

Tools

CMMS

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Job description

To provide leadership, management, and technical support for all plant engineering and maintenance activities associated with bakery plant operations. Responsibilities include the management of an annual capital plan, the administration of a repair and maintenance system and budget, ensuring environmental compliance, and the training and development of management and non-management personnel within the plant engineering / maintenance department. All the above duties will be done following established GMP, Food Safety, and Personal Safety and Quality policies/procedures. If there are equipment/food safety problems, the Plant Engineer will notify the Plant Manager.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND TASKS

• Ensures a safe working environment for all associates through compliance with BQ safety programs promoted by the Company.
• Perform all position responsibilities following established GMP, Food Safety, Personal Safety and Quality policies and procedures.
• Develops and implements a focused preventative and predictive maintenance program to ensure reliable operational performance of bakery equipment and processes.
• Analyzes and solves technical maintenance issues.
• Organizes and implements work assignments efficiently, based on critical equipment priorities and current PM program effectiveness.
• Establishes KPIs and reports to monitor the effectiveness of maintenance performance in terms of Downtime, PM Completion, Overtime, Cost of Maintenance, Critical Equipment Analysis, etc. and uses these reports to initiate remedial actions to improve maintenance performance.
• Communicates the status of engineering/maintenance activities to Maintenance and Plant Operations personnel.
• Develops and implements maintenance procedures, standards and policies to ensure plant compliance with federal, state, and local laws and company policies with regards to personnel safety, food safety and the environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Business Administration.

5 -10 years or more experience related to predictive / proactive maintenance.

• Experience with the administration of a computerized preventive maintenance management system.Technical computer skills related to administration, equipment and process applications.
• Strong leadership, teamwork and communications skills. Worker subject to inside work, protected from weather conditions as well as outside conditions.
• Worker subjected to temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour that is process related and more extreme in summer months.
• Worker subject to noise sufficient to require hearing protection in designated areas.
• Worker subject to hazards such as proximity to moving parts, electrical current, and moving objects carrying considerable weight and force.
• Capable of working in environment of flour dust.
• Work requires the ability to read, write and communicate in English in order to understand and follow work and safety instructions. Must be able to perform basic arithmetic to include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Must be able to ascend and descend building stairways, ladders and ramps to reach job assignments and perform tasks required in job classification. Specific tasks require standing for long periods, climbing, reaching above shoulders, walking, lifting, grasping, kneeling, bending and twisting.
• Must have mental and visual ability to identify various product varieties, read charts of posted manufacturing standards as well as scale weights and equipment controls.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Electro/mechanical, hydraulics and pneumatics system design and troubleshooting knowledge.
• Capable of teaching, training and sharing technical knowledge to employees within operations.
• Bakery equipment and process knowledge.
• Programmable Logic Controller knowledge related to both programming and troubleshooting.
• IPM knowledge (or similar statistical process control system)
• Reasonable accommodation may be made for those who are able to perform the essential duties of the job