Maintenance​/Cleaning, Maintenance Technician ​/ Mechanic

Position: 82.001
Description

At Publix, our maintenance leaders don't just keep facilities running, they help power a business built on reliability, pride of ownership, and doing the right thing. As a Maintenance Manager, you'll play a critical role in shaping how our plant or distribution center performs today and evolves for the future. This is an opportunity for a hands-on, strategic leader who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and technology.

To be successful in this role one must enjoy solving complex problems, developing strong teams, and making data-driven decisions that have a direct impact on safety, efficiency, and long-term operational excellence. If you're motivated by building systems that last and leading others to do their best work in a values-driven organization, you'll find a rewarding career path here.

Responsibilities include:

* Create and sustain a safe work culture,

* Utilize a combination of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies to optimize overall operational cost,

* Provide technical leadership to ensure the plant or distribution center operates efficiently, safely and in compliance with all environmental and food safety regulations and guidelines,

* Establish and adhere to an annual maintenance budget,

* Coach, mentor and assist in the professional development of others and provide associate recognition,

* Identify and implement KPIs that will help your team to clearly understand performance expectations and the roles they can assume in improving team performance to meet our goals,

* Work with manufacturing or distribution department leaders to predict and manage the consequences of failures, and to ensure selected maintenance strategies are optimal for the organization,

* Facilitate weekly PM planning meetings to ensure parts, tools, materials, human resources, and time are available to execute PM procedures and correct emerging equipment deficiencies,

* Utilize the preventive maintenance backlog, maintenance performance report, scorecards, and root cause analysis to evaluate the effectiveness and drive the continuous improvement of the PM program,

* Use downtime reporting, root cause analysis, and labor and repair cost data to identify components and equipment that can be economically upgraded or replaced to improve plant or distribution center reliability,

* Employ root cause analysis and other processes to engage the maintenance team in problem solving activities aimed at improving equipment reliability and performance,

* Monitor inventory turns to routinely optimize parts inventory max/mins,

* Utilize process capacity utilization reports, maintenance and downtime cost data, projected lifecycle cost data, and predictive maintenance techniques to lead the annual development of a plant or distribution center capital equipment replacement plan,

* Complete maintenance led equipment installations on-time and within budget,

* Collaborate with project engineers to develop project scopes, equipment specifications, and to define project lead time requirements,

* Ensure all safety documentation has been created, and LOTO and other safety training has occurred before start-up of new equipment and processes, and

* Inspect and test new equipment, systems, and installations to ensure contract specifications have been fulfilled.

Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

For this position, Publix does not and will not file a petition or application with the USCIS or Department of State on behalf of any noncitizen for any immigration-related benefit to work and/or to continue to work in the United States, e.g., an H-1B or TN petition or permanent residence.

Required Qualifications

* High school diploma or its equivalent and vocational/trade school or equivalent technical knowledge

* At least three years in a maintenance management position

* Willingness to work a variable schedule to support your team and your plant

* Ability to travel, including overnight stays and travel by air

* A track record for establishing high work standards, effectively implementing change, and driving the continuous improvement of a complex maintenance program

* Experience in developing strategies, systems and methods to adapt maintenance work activities to changing business needs and conditions

* Ability to plan and prioritize tasks to support associate safety, food safety, regulatory compliance requirements, associate training, plant or distribution center maintenance requirements, spare parts inventory constraints, and maintenance-led equipment installations

* Experience in utilizing a CMS (Computerized…