Maintenance Manager - Reliability - Food Manufacturing

Henpen Corporation; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Henpen Corporation in Fargo, North Dakota, is seeking a Maintenance Manager – Reliability for a food manufacturing operation. The role focuses on leading maintenance, improving asset reliability, and reducing downtime while controlling costs.

Will consider manager or supervisor; responsibilities include implementing maintenance practices, leading a team of experienced professionals, and collaborating with operations to achieve facility objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Minimum five years of experience in a food manufacturing plant.
• Minimum two years of supervisory experience in a food manufacturing plant.
• Strong communication skills across multiple levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance and repair processes with best practices and safety compliance.
• Deploy continuous improvement to increase asset reliability and reduce downtime.
• Develop long‑term reliability plans and track maintenance costs.
• Lead and develop a team of experienced professionals and supervisors.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

CMRP certification

Tools

Predictive maintenance technologies

Job description

Maintenance Manager - Reliability - Food Manufacturing

• Fargo, ND
• Manufacturing

Maintenance Manager / Supervisor

Fargo, North Dakota, USA

130000-160000

Job Description

Will consider manager or supervisor

The Site Maintenance and Reliability Leader will manage the maintenance of company assets within all applicable laws and procedures while achieving maximum plant reliability and availability performance and lowest overall costs through high maintenance efficiency. In this role, you will provide leadership, technical knowledge and collaboration with operations to ensure integration of maintenance services in the attainment of short- and long-term facility and group objectives. You will champion a cultural change focused on increasing plant reliability and performance efficiency, while minimizing unscheduled plant interruptions and reducing scheduled downtime using continuous improvement tools to optimize the company's physical assets, processes and strategies.

Key Accountabilities

• Implement, deploy and oversee maintenance and repair processes, incorporating best practices for effective and efficient utilization of employee resources and improve environmental health and safety performance while ensuring compliance with maintenance and inventory standards and procedures.
• Deploy a continuous improvement process based on gap identification and elimination, performing group assessments and follow up on actions to manage risk and loss potential to personnel, equipment and plant operations.
• Promote and deploy a performance monitoring system with metrics focusing on asset reliability improvement, failure identification and elimination and communicate locally and regionally performance based on the plan.
• Develop a long-term reliability plan to address facility operational improvement and sustainment and implement and track facility maintenance costs in accordance with effective reliability principles to improve the overall facility results. Contribute to the capital planning process, preparing relevant capital commitment information for assigned project work and ensure that maintenance resources are available and information and knowledge related to equipment reliability and maintainability are transferred to the project team.
• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Ability to communicate effectively within multiple levels of the organization to influence and build and maintain collaborative working partnerships
• Working knowledge of local and regional safety, health and environmental regulations
• Minimum of five years of related work experience in a food manufacturing plant
• Minimum of two years of supervisory experience in a food manufacturing plant
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Certified maintenance reliability professional (CMRP) certification
• Formal training in predictive maintenance technologies

Why is This a Great Opportunity

Worldwide company who makes a positive impact! 160,000 employees throughout 70 countries.

Company makes essential products that touch billions of lives every day.