Packaging Maintenance Manager

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fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra‑filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post‑workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca‑Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit

Job Purpose: The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing the facility and equipment maintenance including all utilities, process and packaging equipment, parts procurement, planning, automation, and department budget. The individual will possess a strong technical background and proven history to lead a talented group of supervisors, mechanics, ICT, engineers, planner, and parts procurement.

• Responsible for managing the performance and development of all maintenance department staff and hourly personnel including salary and hourly workers.
• Responsible for the effective planning, scheduling and execution of all maintenance activities including preventative, predictive, breakdown and overhaul maintenance activities.
• Responsible for maintaining and repairing all production (Packaging) equipment, including Fillers, Blow molder, Sleever, Variopac, Palletizer and Domino, Videojet printers.
• Develop and optimize preventative maintenance program including task details, PM durations to ensure proactive execution, and consistent plant operation.
• Develop and utilize predictive maintenance programs to prevent failures on critical equipment. Condition based tools to include ultrasonic and vibration analysis, thermal imaging, tribology, etc.
• Manage all aspects of the plant CMMS and the Asset Care Strategy for tracking, documentation, and planning.
• Documentation of all schematics, diagram changes, and PLC programming documentation changes to keep plant records current.
• Perform risk assessment of critical spare parts and manage inventory to appropriate levels.
• Responsible for all regulatory packaging records and annual services: supporting overhauls and Audits.
• Oversee the department budget utilizing data analysis to study part turns, obsolete parts, min/max values and propose new solutions to manage inventory.
• Manage critical tasks and projects via weekly CI/strategic campaign meetings.
• Source and work closely with vendors for projects, tasks, and emergency repairs.
• Must be able to use plant resources to troubleshoot issues:
  Factory Talk system, Power
  
  BI, Krones HMI.
• Suggest new strategies on how to track downtime and implement solutions to prevent and eliminate downtime.
• Purchasing and Purchase Order control via Net Suite and D365:
  Understanding department general ledger accounts, categories and working close with the Plant Controller/Finance Department.
• Develop department SME's and create new roles within the department.
• Request, review and maintain vendor contracts.
• Work close with other departments on RCA/CA strategies requiring thorough documentation on the Quality Control platform.
• Maintain critical regulatory instrument calibrations.
• Work with engineering, OEM's and/or suppliers to perform equipment / asset value engineering or redesign to improve performance. Also provide maintenance expert POV to engineering when specifying new equipment design or placement.
• Establish daily routines and standards for the team to follow.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
• Work with the training team to ensure that the maintenance staff are being trained in the mandatory regulatory, machine specific training. Overall need to be able to be a champion for the team to be able drive the team to the next levels of competence.
• Participate in 90-day plans, DDS and department meetings.
• CI projects owner for the…