Manufacturing Maintenance Team Leader II

Maintenance Team Leader II

As a Maintenance Team Leader II, you'll support Plant teams in achieving superior self-manufactured products and develop and train Partners to meet our commitment to superior service levels. You'll ensure Plant preventive and predictive equipment/facility maintenance and develop and maintain a repair manual library.

Key Responsibilities &

Essential Functions:

Management:

• Spends majority of time using independent judgment making employment-related and business decisions, or effectively recommending such decisions, including product- and department-related strategies, hiring, promoting, disciplining, suspending, discharging, rewarding, or otherwise engaging in resolving Partner-related matters
• Coaches/trains/develops non-exempt Partners (without prompting from higher-level leadership)
• Mentors/develops junior-level Maintenance Leaders and Technicians
• Routinely offers performance feedback; administers performance management appraisals as required
• Reviews daily labor schedule requirements; balances staffing levels and overtime as needed; eliminates barriers that prevent Partners from achieving Team goals
• Leads projects that support the Plant's preventative and predictive maintenance plan
• Assists with formulating/communicating tactical and strategic plans and initiatives that typically impact maintenance team Partners; gains support for/commitment to those plans
• Implements/enhances plans as needed to achieve Team goals; coordinates efforts of Partners to meet Team goals; reviews results daily with Team
• Identifies/eliminates Muda (e.g., overproduction waste, excess transportation, excess inventory, excess motion, waiting, over processing, defects, underutilized people)
• Identifies/remains actively involved in critical situations; gains input and provides updates to appropriate Leader; takes appropriate action as needed
• Administers Partner certification in preventive and predictive maintenance
• Provides input to Technology Leaders on staffing levels; gains commitment from the Team; initiates job requisitions; sources/interviews candidates
• Identifies/develops Maintenance Team Coordinators
• Becomes personally involved in every Partner injury
• Assists/supports Technology Leader in developing and implementing a comprehensive skills and training program for Maintenance Partners
• May assist Technology Leader in capital budgeting efforts

Compliance/Maintenance:

• At a team level, monitors established practices to ensure Team Partner compliance with internal/external policies, procedures, guidelines, and governance
• Ensures Partner compliance with Plant Safety Program, work instructions, standards, and product specifications
• Ensures facility and equipment comply with all local, state, and federal regulations
• Ensures all preventive maintenance is done timely and accurately and meets highest maintenance standards
• Creates/executes preventive maintenance schedule to ensure proper maintenance of equipment to meet customer demand efficiently and effectively
• Ensures production and ancillary equipment are maintained in like-new condition
• Ensures correct parts ordering and inventory to conduct scheduled maintenance
• Generates reports to effectively communicate maintenance status and scheduled activities
• Creates/executes/audits the Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Program to improve and move toward a total Plant maintenance concept

Qualifications &

Key Requirements:

Work Experience:

3+ years Related experience (preferred)

- Preferred Experience in high-performance work team concepts
- Required

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Advanced knowledge of maintenance work/skills
  - Required
• Working knowledge of compliance requirements in the industry, EEOC, and employment laws
  - Required
• Working knowledge of HACCP, USDA, OSHA, FDA, and state weight and measure requirements
  - Required
• Knowledge of operating statements, inventory reports, regulatory reports, CIP computer systems, PLC system, TINA, general computer operations, and financial reports related to one functional area
  - Required
• Advanced verbal/written communication and presentation skills
  - Required
• Advanced leadership skills
  - Required
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills
  - Required
• Strong skills operating internal/external software systems
  - Required
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and shift focus between projects/tasks; attention to detail
  - Required
• Ability to coach and develop others
  - Required
• Ability to lead and motivate non-exempt Partners
  - Required
• Ability to read schematics and blueprints
  - Required

Education:

A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- Required

Licenses/Certifications:

Successful completion of MWT ATL Program and SORM
- Required

Physical Demands &

Working Conditions:

• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work flexible and/or rotating schedules, including overnights, weekends, and holidays
• Occasionally lift 20 lbs or more
• Stand, stoop, walk, bend, and climb, with or without accommodations
• Work on production floors that are wet and…