Mechanical Engineer

ABOUT GOLDEN STATE FOODS

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the food service industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diversified clientele. Rooted in quality, service and integrity, Golden State Foods is dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate and contribute to our ongoing success.

A key leader on the line‑centric team, this role is responsible for improving equipment reliability, optimizing maintenance strategies and reducing unplanned downtime. It combines data analysis, engineering principles and hands‑on collaboration with operations and maintenance teams to enhance plant performance, safety and cost efficiency. The leader participates in the Progressive Maintenance (PM) pillar and owns two Daily Management Systems:
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (MP&S) and Breakdown Elimination (BDE). The role partners with Operations to advance Operator‑Driven Reliability/Autonomous Maintenance (ODR/AM) across the site and builds the capability of mechanics and operators to sustain improvements.

• Play a critical role on a site pillar typically PM and/or ODR, including planning, execution, strategy at the site level, coordination at the supervisor level, and coaching at the floor level.
• Own the execution and health of two Daily Management Systems:
  Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (MP&S) and Breakdown Elimination (BDE).
• Own and maintain maintenance plans for relevant zones, ensuring appropriate PMs, equipment ranking, quality of PMs, PM execution, PM tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain reliability metrics and dashboards (MTBF, MTTR, OEE, UPDT, etc.) to communicate reliability performance and improvement projects.
• Develop, coach and audit equipment standards, including Preventive Maintenance (PMs), Centerlines (CL), Clean‑Inspect and Lube (CIL), defect handling (DH) and rate improvement.
• Ensure calibration of PM & ODR systems & standards to maximize equipment availability and extend component life cost‑effectively.
• Evaluate equipment design and recommend modifications for improved reliability.
• Personally lead, facilitate and coach teams through ODR Steps 0‑3, delivering training to associates to build capability and qualify others to lead the step process as the journey progresses.
• Support ODR teams in reducing losses and making improvements through equipment design work, benchmarking with other plants and aligning standard design improvements. Help develop the technical capability of operators.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis and build competency of team members to conduct regular in‑depth analyses on breakdowns to prevent recurrence.
• Identify and eliminate chronic equipment issues using data‑driven methods; track breakdowns, PMs and equipment performance and drive system and standards improvement.
• Conduct regular health checks to coach floor execution and identify system improvement opportunities.
• Ensure safety, quality, and food safety condition issues are resolved quickly.
• Participate and coach healthy operational reviews (shift‑by‑shift, daily, weekly, monthly).
• Perform other related and assigned duties as necessary.

Engineering degree preferred from an accredited college or significant relevant experience.

• Minimum 3‑year experience as a maintenance or production supervisor, preferably in a mature TPM/IWS environment.
• Participation in and understanding of daily directional setting (DDS) / operational reviews from floor to plant level.
• ODR(AM) / PM pillar experience preferred, i.e., ODR steps 0‑3 and PM steps 1 and 2 methodologies.
• Systemic results improvement through leadership of people & ownership of systems.

• Mechanical knowledge (E)
• World‑class manufacturing systems (E)
• Statistical analysis and reliability modeling (J)
• Root cause analysis (E)
• Project management (J)
• PC word‑processing / spreadsheet software (J)
• Manufacturing concepts and techniques (E)
• Math and analytical skills (J)
• Relevant department concepts, policies, and regulations (B)
• Predictive…