Summary The position is accountable for facilitating maintenance in the plant. The incumbent will lead efforts to perform preventive, predictive, and emergency maintenance.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities

Lead maintenance crew by planning, organizing, and scheduling work.

Work with planner to facilitate planned maintenance activities.

Coordinate activities of waste area, boiler area, and yards and grounds crews in the absence of the Maintenance Superintendent.

Actively investigate and make changes to the preventive maintenance program to eliminate downtime issues.

Actively promote safe work habits and make recommendations for safety improvements. This includes completing SAFE observations, participating in and promoting the SAFE process.

Monitor maintenance of utility equipment to include the boilers, air compressors, wells, and waste area to increase equipment reliability and reduce overall cost.

Communicate equipment and personnel issues on a daily basis with the Maintenance Superintendent.

Track completion of preventive maintenance work orders, providing a monthly report of items not completed.

Work with storeroom on inventory levels and approving non-stock purchases.

Must maintain the highest standards of ethics and integrity while embodying the tenets of "What We Stand For" and "The Basic Principles."

Must maintain the highest standards of data management by creating consistent, reliable data which will ensure accuracy and in turn, maximize the use of data and confidence in decision making.

Proactively manage safety by ensuring compliance with all Federal and State regulations and internal Company policies. Regularly complete behavior based safety observations. Ensure unsafe conditions are corrected in a timely manner.

All employees are responsible for upholding the principles of SQF 2000.

All employees are responsible for immediately reporting any food safety, food quality or plant security issues to management for appropriate action.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and/or Experience: This position requires the incumbent to have advanced skills as an industrial mechanic.

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple to complex instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to write various types of documents including, but not limited to, instructions, training outlines, and reports. Ability to effectively present information verbally in one-on-one to large group situations.

Reasoning Ability: Must be able to creatively apply experience and common sense to a variety of situations, processes, and people. Must be able to make technical decisions and support the staff on technical issues. Possess the ability to manage several projects concurrently. Be able to plan work, order parts, and coordinate downtime to complete work orders. Be able to resolve issues which may include conflicts between employees, equipment malfunctions, and variations in operating conditions.

Computer Skills: Must demonstrate strong skills in Microsoft Office suite and be able to effectively use Maintenance Management Software.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee must be able to drive a vehicle and will be required to travel in a car or airplane.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme heat; and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.