Director of Maintenance

Responsible for the strategic oversight and leadership required to operate and maintain a 975,000 square foot animal protein production facility which includes a 195,000-pound ammonia system, 32-million-gallon wastewater treatment facility, rendering and steam generation operation, thirty-eight (38) million pound distribution center, axis robotic and automation systems. Leads a team consisting of 8 direct reports and 200+ maintenance technicians and specialist. This team is charged with planning and scheduling, preventive and corrective maintenance activities, maintenance reliability, maintenance skills training and development, special projects, and facility enhancements designed to look at product and workforce improvements.

Focused on maintaining production efficiencies within budgetary parameters and driving continuous improvement.

This list is not intended to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Responsible for aligning the business strategy to technology and innovation available that would provide feasible and realistic options.
• Uses data analytics to monitor systems and processes, make projections, and provide solutions and options to better manage the facility in a sustainable and effective manner.
• Responsible for and the authority on generating all needed information to support appropriations requests (AR's) for the facility.
• Oversees root cause failure analysis (RCFA) for chronic or catastrophic equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Acts as the facility expert to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Collaborates with all stakeholders to ensure success. Understands the role of business ethics in building professional relationships with contractors, suppliers, and vendors to ensure successful expectations, negotiations, and outcomes.
• Propose, design and introduce options for new equipment, automation, and process design within the facility to maximize production and labor efficiencies while improving product quality.
• Owns company wide reliability strategy, including predictive, preventative, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Responsible for maintenance onboarding and technical developmental training
• Understands and is knowledgeable of all local, state, and federal laws and regulations including Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ensures program execution and compliance in all areas.
• Partners with Engineering and Projects to support capital project development and installment.
• Analyses and tracks key performance indicators for all areas of responsibility.
• Manages ground property management services in the aspects of snow removal, lawncare, landscaping, irrigation, trash removal, and parking lot upkeep.

• Establish andmaintaincritical asset rankings for all production, packaging, refrigeration, rendering, wastewater, and utility systems.
  
  Coordinating contractor work along with unscheduled work.
• Participate as a key stakeholder in selection, on-boarding, training, and development of employees engaged in all levels of maintenance activity.
• Responsible for obtaining MOCs, writing appropriation requests and completing capital projects in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

• Analyze asset lifecycle data, downtime trends, and failure history to drive reliability improvements and capital planning.
• Is professionally responsible for thermal, refrigeration, compressed air, hazardous gases, wastewater, steam, electrical, water, natural gas, HVAC, ammonia systems, sustainability, and compliance in a safe, compliant, and efficient manner.
• Lead activities which requires the ability to manage through the unpredictability of operational issues.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the work environment, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required or preferred. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable…