Manager, Engineering & Maintenance

Join the Cold Chain That Feeds the World. For over 120 years, Americold has connected producers, processors, distributors, and retailers to ensure food stays safe, fresh, and accessible. With 240+ facilities across four continents and 14,000+ team members, we are a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics. Our mission is to help our customers feed the world – and we’re looking for people who share that purpose.

We value customer service, innovation, and inclusion, and we invest in our people’s growth and well-being. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact in a company that puts people first, Americold is the place for you.

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 so it is clean, safe, fully-operational and in good repair.
• Assess future repair needs of equipment and coordinates repairs.
• Direct department activities to design new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and develop test procedures.
• Provide a comprehensive energy plan, which includes:
  Energy consumption, defined rate goals, strategies, action plans, conservation plans and utilization effectiveness.
• Maintain a working knowledge of new technologies, which may improve operations, and develops recommendations accordingly.
• Maintain a working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state and local environment, health, safety and HR regulations/procedures along with ensuring that all tasks are carried out in a safe and healthful manner with no adverse impact upon the environment.
• Works with General Manager to develop annual budgets
• Works with General Manager to ensure Departmental financial goals are met.
• Works with General Manager to Develop Capital Expense budgets and provide long term planning for facility and equipment improvements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
• Completion of all eight (8) RETA courses.
• HAZMAT certification.
• Five to eight years in warehouse maintenance management experience.
• 3 years general supervisory/management experience
• Requires the ability to successfully complete the requirements of the Americold Certified Maintenance Manager program within 6 (six) months of start date of employment.

• Ability to manage employees.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with variety of individuals.
• Ability to reason, negotiate, instruct, persuade, or speak with others;
• Ability to pay close attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and judgment in communicating with staff.
• Willingness to develop a mentoring relationship in order to contribute experience, skills, and wisdom to subordinate employees for their development.
• Receptive…