Maintenance Manager / Supervisor

NPAworldwide; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide is seeking a Site Maintenance and Reliability Leader for a food manufacturing plant in the Fargo, ND area. You will manage maintenance programs, champion reliability improvements, and drive cost-effective, compliant operations across asset lifecycles.

You will lead a team of professionals, collaborate with operations, and implement best practices to minimize downtime and improve environmental health and safety performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively within multiple levels of the organization.
• Working knowledge of local and regional safety, health and environmental regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance and repair processes for optimal asset use.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve reliability.
• Develop long-term reliability plans and manage maintenance costs.
• Support capital planning and ensure knowledge transfer to project teams.
• Coach and develop a team of professionals and supervisors.
• Ensure staff actions align with safety and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with operations to meet plant goals.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

CMMS

Excel

Job description

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Other minimum qualifications may apply
• 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.