Manager Maintenance Engineer

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe? At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand!

With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream.

We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly. We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it.

Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you.

Effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation. To consistently achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime, through effective management and upkeep of the processes, teams and equipment, to ensure that we achieve customer service level with our customers, through the manufacture of products to the right quality and specification. Covering all aspects of food safety.

• Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery.
• Production Plan, kept informed and updated of any changes to this plan in order to plan your team’s daily work and equipment readiness enables plan completion, ensure all machinery is available for production when required
• Drive the team to look for issues, and not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task
• Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs.
• Keep a full library of machine manuals, along with support mechanisms linked to site or group resources when information and support is required
• Ensure the engineering team attend breakdowns promptly
• Ensure effective hand-over within your team making sure they are held accountable for what they do.
• Create a “one person for one job” policy unless the job requires more or for training; never compromise safety.
• Ensure all areas are operating under discipline, the workplace, workshop and stores are clean, organized and tidy by maintaining a clean as you go policy in all areas
• Drive the production process to ensure that the products produced meet customer specifications, quality and food safety.
• Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs through effective management of equipment and engineering resources
• Provide a visible presence in production daily to guide, coach, monitor and control the issues and activities and be accessible to all.
• Communicate effectively with all the team, not just “Send and Forget” emails.
• Carry out performance reviews with your team and ensure training is done where needed.
• Proactively looking for areas of improvement and adopting techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production
• Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the factory
• Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend to the issues as and when they happen. The daily site walk must deliver a clean, tidy site all over.
• Ensure that you are the focal point for the team.
• Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values
• To ensure the…