Maintenance Manager

Crown Bakeries; Smyrna (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Bakeries is seeking a Maintenance Manager to direct all maintenance efforts, ensuring quality, efficiency, safety, and regulatory goals are met. The role includes leading and developing a maintenance team, coordinating with other departments, and driving continuous improvement in equipment health and uptime.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in maintenance leadership, strong CMMS experience, and solid organizational and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 5+ years of proven experience as a Maintenance leader preferred.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance processes and CMMS.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of relevant safety regulations and best practices in maintenance.
• Proficient in computer applications i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance team to ensure plant goals in quality, efficiency, safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with departments to meet Crown Bakeries expectations and standards.
• Manage preventative maintenance programs and CMMS for equipment health.
• Oversee inventory and parts management to minimize downtime.
• Track budgets and CAPEX, ensuring financial accountability.
• Coordinate trainings and manage personnel records for maintenance staff.
• Report downtime, PM compliance, inventory gaps, and CAPEX needs.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Safety regulations

Problem solving

Microsoft Office

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary

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Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager directs all Maintenance efforts to ensure plant Quality, Efficiency, Safety, Financial, and regulatory goals are met or exceeded as directed by the Plant Manager. The Maintenance Manager must have effective administration skills as well as organizational capabilities. The Maintenance Manager will lead, coach, and develop the team to ensure an effective and positive culture.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Conduct all work and communication in a respectful and professional manner.
• Facilitate a heathy work environment for all Crown employees.
• Coach and Lead maintenance personnel to facilitate a teamwork environment.
• Effectively collaborate with all departments to ensure all Crown expectations are met.
• Take full ownership of the department.
• Understand and uphold all of Crown Bakeries expectations and standard.

Plant Efficiency

• Ensure uptime of equipment by managing systems and resources effectively.
• Track known and ongoing issues by means of KPI’s and CMMS.
• Resolve known and ongoing issues in a timely manner.
• Determine rout cause of equipment failure and down time.
• Implement permanent solutions to equipment failure and down time.
• Work closely with OEM’s to ensure health of equipment training of personnel.
• Coordinate and facilitate improvement projects both in house and through capital expenditure.

PM program

• Manage systems and resources to ensure all equipment has a documented preventative maintenance plan.
• Ensure the frequency of the preventative maintenance plan is optimized based on plant schedules.
• Keep up to date and accurate records of preventative maintenance.
• Conduct audits of the preventive maintenance program to ensure effectiveness and accuracy.
• Coordinate OEM visits for critical equipment to ensure the health of the equipment and in house PM compliance.

Inventory

• Manage systems and resources to ensure an accurate and organized inventory of parts.
• Identify critical spare parts and ensure they are stocked or readily available.
• Keep up to date and accurate records of all parts.
• Conduct audits of the inventory and management system to ensure compliance with expectations.
• Work with outside agencies and vendors to ensure part availability.
• Coordinate OEM visits to ensure critical spare parts are identified and on hand parts are sufficient to ensure the uptime of the equipment.

Financials

• Manage systems and resources to ensure maintenance financial budgets are understood and met.
• Understand cost drivers within the budget and seek improvements in cost reduction
• Keep up to date and accurate records of all maintenance related financials.
• Keep records of all capital projects and related financials.
• Manage labor budgets and head count expectations.

Personnel

• Manage systems and resources to ensure accuracy and approval of work history for all maintenance personnel.
• Work closely with human resources and recruiters to ensure the proper head count is maintained in the maintenance department.
• Set clear expectations within the department and uphold company standers.
• Coordinate and conduct trainings to ensure all maintenance personnel are trained and capable for meeting expectations.
• Keep up to date and accurate personnel records.

Reporting

• Report down time and waste related to equipment issues.
• Report PM completion and compliance.
• Report inventory levels and gaps.
• Report financial compliance for all maintenance related budgets.
• Report CAPEX needs and ongoing projects.
• Report personnel current state and opening within the maintenance department.

Skills And Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.
• 5 or more years of proven experience as a Maintenance leader preferred.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance processes and strategies.
• Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of relevant safety regulations and best practices in maintenance.
• Proficient in computer applications. i.e. – outlook, excel, word, PowerPoint…

Preferred Technical Skills

• Bearings
• Conveyance
• Filter
• Sprockets
• Gears
• Shafts
• Chain
• Drive Belts
• Electrical Controls
• Motors
• Gearboxes
• Cylinders
• Valves
• Welding
• Shop Tools

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in both a production plant and office environment. The employee is occasionally exposed to facility elements such as noise, dust, fumes, and odors. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

EEO STATEMENT

Crown Bakeries is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment in our workplace and strive to foster a diverse and inclusive workforce. This EEO policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion,