Maintenance Manager / Supervisor

Job Juncture; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Job Juncture in Fargo, ND is seeking a Site Maintenance and Reliability Leader to manage asset maintenance, drive plant reliability, and minimize downtime in a food manufacturing setting. You will provide leadership, technical knowledge, and collaborate with operations to align maintenance with short- and long-term facility goals.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, capital planning involvement, staff development, and implementing best practices for safety, environmental compliance, and

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: CMRP certification and formal training in predictive maintenance technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the maintenance of assets to maximize reliability and availability while reducing costs.
• Implement, deploy and oversee maintenance and repair processes with best practices for efficient use of resources.
• Lead continuous improvement by identifying gaps and reducing risk to personnel and operations.
• Develop and monitor a performance system focusing on asset reliability, failure identification and elimination.
• Contribute to capital planning and ensure resources and knowledge are shared with project teams.
• Coach and develop a team of professionals and supervisors; participate in talent management decisions.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Facility operations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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

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

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.