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An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Maintenance Manager to enhance operational reliability in their Bloomsburg facility. This role involves leading a skilled team to implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies, ensuring safety and compliance with food quality standards. You will be responsible for managing budgets, optimizing resources, and fostering a collaborative work environment. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on iconic pet food brands while working in a vibrant community known for its recreational activities and educational institutions. If you are passionate about maintenance and leadership, this role is perfect for you.
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, PEBBLES, Grape-Nuts and Malt-O-Meal cereal, and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray Nutrish, Kibbles ‘n Bits and 9Lives dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.
The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility is 1,120,845 square feet and home to about 470 hard working team members who are proud to produce iconic pet food brands like Kibbles 'n Bits and 9Lives. This location has a cannery that produces wet dog food and there is also a Distribution Center on-site. Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, a landmark Town Park with many acres of recreational activities, and has one of the largest and longest running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work and play!
This position is responsible for driving progressive maintenance processes that are predictive, preventive and planned work practices that maximize mechanical reliability. Has direct responsibility for the production equipment, utilities, and building structures. Support, implement, and maintain food safety and quality practices as required through SQF. The role will be a key member of operations management team responsible for leading the Maintenance function in a manner that supports plant safety, food safety, quality, environmental, and budget adherence.
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Skills: Balance of technical, maintenance and management, human relations, and conceptual skills. Strong communication skills with the ability to act as both a strategic and tactical leader. Able to evaluate alternatives, establish priorities, and formulate decisions that affect all aspects of the operation. Able to establish clear support for long term best practice behaviors while recognizing the short term need to bring others with you on the vision of a highly reliable operation.
Management Skills: Able to hire, plan, listen, organize, set department objectives, interpret, provide work direction, coach, counsel, train and conduct performance reviews. Ability to influence others indirectly, team members, peers and support resources. A leader by behavior and action. Strong business acumen with the ability to see larger business objective and translate into functional strategies and tactics.
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