Senior Maintenance Manager

Shearers is a leading contract manufacturer and private label supplier in the snack industry in North America. Headquartered in Massillon Ohio Shearers has 17 state-of-the-art geographically diverse manufacturing facilities in Ohio Texas Arkansas Arizona Minnesota Pennsylvania Virginia Iowa Ontario and Alberta Canada including one of the industrys first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum LEED certified facilities in Massillon Ohio. The Company is known for producing the highest quality snacks in assorted flavors and sizes including kettle cooked potato chips traditional potato chips tortilla chips cheese curls and other extruded snacks and corn chips as well as cookies crackers and wafers.

Senior Maintenance Manager

Your seat at the best snacks table:

The Senior Maintenance Manager is a key member of the plant leadership team responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive maintenance and reliability strategy that ensures safe efficient and sustainable plant operations. This role oversees all maintenance activities with a focus on maximizing equipment uptime improving asset reliability optimizing preventive maintenance programs and leading a team of maintenance position reports to the Plant Director.

What you bring to the party:

• Direct the efficient maintenance and improvement installation and safe operation of food processing equipment in compliance with company State and Federal policies; procedures and regulations including OSHA FDA SQF AIB EPA GMP NFPA NEC and other code and regulatory agencies.
• Work with the operations team to establish production line operating metrics such as efficiencies uptime and reliability.
• Provide Technical support (related to reliability/maintenance services) for all production equipment throughout the facility.
• Assure lines are mechanically capable of meeting standard operating rates and reliability and improve up time and reliability for all lines.
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Maintains an appropriate and adequate supply of inventory and parts.
• Identifies and develops plans to improve equipment designs or department procedures to maximize asset availability.
• Drives Plant asset integrity and reliability program including proactive maintenance programs such as predictive maintenance programs Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) maintenance scheduling root cause analysis improvement through Lean Six Sigma techniques and other best practices.
• Optimize cost through effective budget planning and management. Identify and implement cost-saving ideas for facility maintenance.
• Optimize spare parts inventory and work order management through the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Interface with vendors and contractors providing services to the facility to ensure thecompanys needs are met.
• Lead the development and implementation of a proactive maintenance and reliability program that reduces downtime and supports production goals.
• Partner with Engineering Operations and Quality teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives ensuring maintenance activities support food safety regulatory compliance and cost-efficiency.
• Develop and manage the annual maintenance budget tracking performance to plan and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Responsible for a team of technicians including performance and compensation management training coaching discipline and career development.
• Direct coach and develop a team of maintenance supervisors planners and technicians fostering a culture of accountability safety and technical excellence.
• Provide training and mentorship to build technical skill sets in troubleshooting preventive maintenance and root cause analysis.
• Ensure proper staffing scheduling and resource allocation for 24/7 plant operations.
• Performs other job-related projects duties and assignments as directed by Plant Management. Other duties may be assigned due to business needs or special circumstances which may require reassignment to other departments or other job duties.

Desired Technical/Functional Skills:

• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance reliability-centered maintenance and CMMS systems.
• TPM and CMRP preferred with asset management best practices
• Significant hands-on experience in leading maintenance teams.
• Significant record of achievement with regard to lean manufacturing support continuous improvement and breakdown reduction.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to perform data manipulation and analysis using Microsoft Office suite.
• Applicable systems and software knowledge.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to create a culture of accountability and teamwork.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors degree in engineering Industrial Technology or related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Minimum of 7 years supervisory and people management experience
• 10 years of maintenance leadership experience in food manufacturing or a similar high-speed regulated production environment.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience in management (preferably in food processing).
• Demonstrated success in managing budgets leading teams and delivering measurable improvements in equipment uptime.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma or TPM methodologies.
• Excellent leadership problem-solving and communication skills.

We Offer a Feast of Benefits

Medical Dental Vision Life Flexible Spending Account Retirement Savings Plan with Match Short Term Disability Long Term Disability Group Critical Accident Insurance Group Critical Illness Insurance Employee Assistance Plan and numerous opportunities to volunteer in the communities in which we operate.

You will be considered for employment in our inclusive workplace

Because at Shearers we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is your invitation to apply now!

Note: Shearers does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Shearers is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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