MAINTENANCE MANAGER

Maintenance Supervisor

AMPI owns seven Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation's American-type cheese, processed cheese and butter is produced. The cooperative's award-winning cheese, butter and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled buttermakers and cheesemakers.

Essential Responsibilities :

• All AMPI employees have an obligation to report employee safety, food safety and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
• This position has a heightened food safety and food quality responsibilities.
• Manages direct reports who supervise employees in maintenance while responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the reports. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Ensures safe operations through adherence to Environmental, Health, and Safety programs and procedures.
• Responsible for the safe maintenance, repair or replacement of plant equipment and systems, to ensure maximum production quantity and quality, while supporting the policies, goals and objectives of the company.
• Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices in the dairy industry, with an emphasis on planning / scheduling and preventive / predictive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
• Maintains and repairs maintenance shop equipment.
• Maintains computerized maintenance management system when available for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related problems.
• Ensures that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Conducts employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance supervisors and technicians.
• Maintains and updates operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Reviews the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Initiates and carries out projects that improve efficiency and / or reduce operating costs.
• Drive training and coaching to ensure compliance with Safety standards and incident prevention.
• Coordinates activities with Plant Operations Departments.
• Prioritizes, schedules repairs and installations to equipment and facilities, minimizing interference with production.
• Coordinates installation of new equipment and the completion of building projects.
• Maintaining machine operating standards, including the review and documentation of downtime trends against standard.
• Administers the maintenance work order system, including prioritizing and assigning work orders, and monitoring their timely completion.
• Managing the plant preventive maintenance plan, ensuring the least interference with production operations and ensuring the completion and maintenance of all records regarding P.M. and work orders completed.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, with an emphasis on arc flash, Aerial Lift, Confined Space, First Aid / CPR, Fall Protection, Forklift, Hazardous Communication-Right to Know, Hearing Conservation, Hot Work, Lockout / Tag out and Electrical safety.
• Ensuring compliance with all local, state and federal regulatory environmental programs for testing and disposal requirements, such as waste oil disposal, PSM and RMP.
• Development and adherence to maintenance budget.
• Assisting in process troubleshooting as needed, including being a technical resource as needed.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of capital projects and related budgets.
• Proactively manages all infrastructures including developing long-term plan for maintenance and upgrades as needed.
• Identify and present capital improvement projects to support plant infrastructure needs and improvements.
• Adhere to all Quality and Food Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
• Adhere to all Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
• Install and optimize CMMS software program to increase availability of all plant equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The above list reflects the general details necessary to describe the principle and essential functions of the position and shall not be construed as the only duties that may be assigned for the position.

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