Lead Production Maintenance Technician

About Sun Opta

Sun Opta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers, and food service providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, Sun Opta fuels customers' growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, food service, and e-commerce channels across North America.

The Lead Production Maintenance Technician is responsible for:

• Providing and coordinating the day-to-day plant maintenance functions on their shift.
• Providing supervision for the Production Technicians.
• Ensuring maintenance operating efficiencies.
• Safety.
• Housekeeping.
• Quality workmanship.
• Primary contact with the Production Supervisors to coordinate work with maintenance staff on duty.
• Executes preventive maintenance programs.
• Effectively coordinates maintenance activities with production, warehouse, and quality.
• Provide support to the leadership team and employees at the site.

• Leads all Production Technicians on their scheduled shifts.
• Coordinate's maintenance workers by scheduling repairs, and planning maintenance and installation activities.
• Coordinate's maintenance activities on utility systems to provide continuous supply of heat, steam, electric power, gas, or air required for operations.
• Review's production, quality control and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities.
• Identifies the training needs of shift personnel in all aspects of their jobs consistent with established operating procedures.
• Ensure safety in the workplace by eliminating unsafe conditions and unsafe employee behaviors.
• Protect Company assets by the direct intervention of any condition resulting in the abuse of equipment or buildings.
• Executes the preventive maintenance program in conjunction with the maintenance staff.
• Inspects operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Confers with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
• Participates in the planning of new installations. Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules. Suggest changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of maintenance staff. Analyzes and troubleshoot equipment problems. Assists maintenance staff in solving equipment problems.
• Other duties, as assigned.

• None.

• Technical ability - understand complex manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Detail Orientation - breaks large tasks into small parts and understands the small parts that make up the whole. Speaks with data.
• Business Acumen- aligns work with plant goals.
• Judgment
  - Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.
• Motivation
  - Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; takes calculated risks to accomplish.
• Planning/Organizing
  - Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently, plans for additional resources, sets goals and objectives, organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.
• Professionalism
  - Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure, treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
• Quality
  - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Adaptability
  - Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Dependability
  - Follow instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility…