Plant Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Dessert Holdings; Newburyport (MA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Dessert Holdings as a Plant Maintenance Manager to drive operational excellence in food manufacturing. This role is crucial in ensuring equipment reliability and safety standards while mentoring a dedicated team. You'll manage maintenance budgets, lead improvement initiatives, and collaborate with engineering to deliver high-quality products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems.
• 7+ years leading manufacturing teams.
• Experience with TPM and AM implementations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee reliability and availability of plant equipment.
• Lead execution of capital plans and small projects.
• Implement standards for breakdown elimination and predictive maintenance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical field

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PLANT MAINTENANCE MANAGER (Food Manufacturing)

Are you ready to elevate your career in manufacturing operations and be a part of creating the world's best desserts? Dessert Holdings partners with some of North America's most iconic chains to bring people together to celebrate life's sweetest moments!

Dessert Holdings is looking for a Plant Maintenance Manager at our Newburyport, MA facility to lead Maintenance practices across the plan to ensure reliability, maintainability, and availability of plant resources with a specific focus on overall deterioration losses. Ensuring that people safety and food safety come first, we are looking for a confident leader with strong technical and communication skills with the ability to engage and build relationships across all teams, including the ability to coach and empower team members to take ownership for driving out losses at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overall reliability and availability of equipment and control of maintenance labor and expense budget within the plant.
• Responsible for leading execution of capital plan and executing small infrastructure projects.
• Identify, select, and develop talent to ensure "bench strength" and continued development and advancement of top talent within the department.
• Accountable for ownership of the Maintenance Department SWP Board, including the ability to coach leading and lagging KPIs to all levels of work force.
• Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning & scheduling, lubrication, Predictive Maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tool/facilities and inventory management.
• Partner with plant leadership and other teams to ensure equipment improvements are achieved through preventive and predictive maintenance tools and techniques, with a focus on eliminating specific losses around equipment deterioration.
• Supporting Autonomous Maintenance Standard work practices around implementation of Safety Maps, Centerlines, Defect handling, Clean/Inspect/lube tasks to support Planned stops to reduce unplanned downtimes.
• Ability to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants limited resources on top losses.
• Support, lead and assist with plant projects to ensure delivery of productivity goals.
• Partner with Engineering team to ensure all RAMS deliverables are complete and implemented to support delivering project resource goals.
• Partner with Quality team to ensure programs including FSQI, HAACP, GMP and CAPA are followed to deliver high-quality and safe products to our customers.
  
  

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or other related technical field
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems
• 7 + years of technical manufacturing leadershipof teams of at least 3 to 8 individuals
• Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventative Maintenance) implementations
• General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, and HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required.
• Experience Leading continuous Improvement teams successfully.
• Ability to influence plant leadership and drive cultural change within the plant in regard to Safety, Food Quality and Reliability
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• CMRP Certification
• 5+ years of experience in food/bakery manufacturing
• Black/Green belt in Six Sigma and other continuous improvement tools
• Bilingual English and Spanish
  
  

About Dessert Holdings

Dessert Holdings is North America's fastest-growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired, innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best-in-class service. The company is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Dianne's Fine Desserts, and Kenny's Great Pies. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital, employing more than 3,200 people across nine manufacturing facilities, and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.

EEO Statement

Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Manufacturing

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