Senior Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Dessert Holdings; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plans

Dental and vision insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Retirement contributions

Job summary

Dessert Holdings is seeking a Senior Maintenance Manager in Aurora, CO, to lead maintenance practices for optimal reliability and safety.

In this role, you'll implement strategies to eliminate losses, oversee a team, and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards. Ideal candidates have extensive manufacturing leadership experience and a strong technical background.

Dessert Holdings offers competitive pay between $140,000 and $150,000 annually, along with comprehensive benefits including health plans and paid time off.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership in a technical manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems.
• Experience leading TPM and PM implementations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure overall reliability and availability of equipment.
• Lead execution of capital plan and minor infrastructure projects.
• Identify and develop talent for department growth.

Skills

Leadership

Technical expertise

Communication

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

CMMS systems

Six Sigma

Job description

Senior 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 Senior Maintenance Manager at our Aurora, CO facility to lead maintenance practices across the plant 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.

The typical hiring range for this role is $140,000 to $150,000 annually and is based on several factors such as education, work experience, skills, certifications, location, etc. In addition to pay, Dessert Holdings offers benefits such as a choice of comprehensive medical plans, dental and vision insurance, paid vacation and holidays, and retirement contribution to all eligible employees.

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 workforce.
• 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 plant's 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, HACCP, 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, or equivalent management experience in Maintenance or Reliability field.
• 10+ years of leadership in a technical manufacturing environment, including manual to automated operations.
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems.
• 7+ years of technical manufacturing leadership of teams of at least 3 to 8 individuals with a total department of 35+ employees.
• 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 projects.
• 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

About Dessert Holdings

Dessert Holdings is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Steven Charles, Dianne's Fine Desserts, Kenny's Great Pies, and Willamette Valley Pie Company. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, employs more than 3,500 people across ten 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.