Supr Fac Maintenance
Job in
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, 46804, USA
Listed on 2026-02-04
Listing for:
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-04
Job specializations:
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Manufacturing / Production
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Operations Engineer, Production Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Role and Activity
Safety
- Comply with all company safety policies and procedures.
- Take an active role to ensure that personal safety and the safety of others is never compromised.
- Strive to make our facility a safer place to work through compliance with regulatory and plant safety guidelines.
- Conduct weekly safety meetings.
Quality
- Comply with the Good Manufacturing Practices as outlined by the plant Quality department.
- Actively participate in preventing and correcting quality related errors.
Plant Citizenship and Interactions (Grooves)
- Communicate and interact with others in a manner consistent with the company’s “Grooves” and “I Can Make A Difference Philosophies”.
- Initiate, organize, and actively participate in team meetings, committees and task forces.
- Exceed expectation with regard to attendance and other guidelines.
- Supervise and coordinate the activities of Maintenance Technicians daily based on production schedule.
- Review work orders and preventative maintenance needs, taking into account factors such as priority, production schedules, and material/parts availability. Assign Technicians based on skills required.
- Assign Maintenance Technicians in response to request from production, recognizing the areas requiring immediate response to prevent downtime.
- Review downtime recap sheets on a daily basis and discuss with the Technicians where improvements can be made.
- Develop and distribute Preventative Maintenance schedules for equipment. Continuously re-evaluate PM schedules for optimal efficiency.
- Ensure work order assignments are completed in a timely manner.
- Develop work schedules to utilize Maintenance skills and personnel availability.
- Review requisitions with requesting Maintenance staff before signing to ensure every dollar spent is justified in the budget.
- Work on system-wide Maintenance network team to ensure coordination of activities, plans, problem-solving, and other plant wide issues.
- Participate in planning, scheduling, and supporting weekend coverage rotation as necessary.
- Develop and implement skill building plans for individuals and the department, including standard operating procedures.
- Minimum 3 years experience in a manufacturing environment and knowledge of Utilities/Facilities/Production equipment.
- Engineering degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- PC proficiency as well as excellent organizational and communication skills are a must.
- Ability to develop a strong maintenance team in a high performing environment.
- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills.
- Knowledge in automatic controls is desired.
- Project management experience.
- Planning, scheduling, and budgeting experience.
- CMMS / work order experience.
- Quality and technical system adherence.
- Completion of the required production to plan.
- Health and Safety.
- Impeccable hygiene standards always.
- Clean as you go; use proper cleaning techniques (i.e. limited water hose usage).
- We Take Ownership:
Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish;
Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail;
Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or reduce waste. - We Do What Is Right:
Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations;
Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment;
Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies. - We Seek to Improve:
Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations;
Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we can improve;
Learn from both successes and failures. - We Are Better Together:
Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business;
Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives;
Treat everyone with fairness and respect.
In this position, the employee will regularly work with and around others; in a wet and/or humid environment; in areas of high noise level; and around mechanical, electrical, and pressurized equipment. The work is fast paced.
The position involves frequent…
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