Manager, Engineering & Maintenance

What You'll Do:

Manage the daily maintenance activities in a warehouse. Plan and coordinate activities of refrigeration, maintenance and forklift associates. Maintain safe, effective and functional facilities by directing installation, maintenance, and repair of machines, tools, equipment, and utility systems for refrigerated warehouse.

• Identifies current and future maintenance requirements.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual maintenance budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Ensures operations productivity by determining work priorities and scheduling repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools and equipment.
• Designs, implements, and modifies preventive maintenance programs by reviewing production, quality control and maintenance reports and statistics; inspecting operating machines, equipment, and systems for conformance with operational standards.
• Complies with all OSHA regulations and PSM requirements.
• Ensures compliance with mechanical, electrical and all other municipal and state codes.
• Resolves maintenance problems.
• Protects employees and visitors by maintaining a safe and clean working environment.
• Completes maintenance operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees. Ensures work results.
• Ensures repairs of handling equipment are clean, safe, fully‑operational and in good repair.
• Assesses future repair needs of equipment and coordinates repairs.
• Directs department activities to design new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and develop test procedures.
• Provides a comprehensive energy plan, which includes: energy consumption, defined rate goals, strategies, action plans, conservation plans and utilization effectiveness.
• Maintains a working knowledge of new technologies that may improve operations, and develops recommendations accordingly.
• Maintains a working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.
• Ensures compliance with all federal, state and local environmental, health, safety and HR regulations/procedures, and that all tasks are carried out in a safe and healthful manner with no adverse impact on the environment.
• Works with the General Manager to develop annual budgets.
• Works with the General Manager to ensure departmental financial goals are met.
• Works with the General Manager to develop capital‑expense budgets and provide long‑term planning for facility and equipment improvements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
• HAZMAT certification.
• Five to eight years in warehouse maintenance management experience.
• Three years of general supervisory/management experience.
• Requires the ability to successfully complete the requirements of the Americold Certified Maintenance Manager program within six months of start date of employment.

• Ability to manage employees.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, deadline‑oriented environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of individuals.
• Ability to reason, negotiate, instruct, persuade, or speak with others.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and judgment in communicating with staff.
• Willingness to develop a mentoring relationship to contribute experience, skills and wisdom to subordinate employees.
• Receptive to management development suggestions and willing to seek additional knowledge to facilitate job growth.
• Strong relationship skills, ability to model leadership behaviors, including defusing conflict; cooperates with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes and responds appropriately to criticism.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to interpret HR regulations, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedures manuals.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Strong customer‑service orientation with high sense of urgency in meeting objectives and deadlines.
• Competence in mechanical knowledge.
• Hands‑on ability in mechanically oriented…