Maintenance Leader

At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a Maintenance Leader based in Mt. Crawford, Virginia!

The Maintenance Leader supports a line, value stream team, or technology group. This position is directly responsible for planned maintenance pillar activities and leadership of mechanics supporting their team across 7 days for all 3 shifts. They should display servant leadership abilities that help empower mechanics and line team associates to higher performance levels and greater morale. This role requires 60% to 80% floor leadership time.

Maintenance leaders are responsible for daily tactical execution of Daily Direction Setting priorities, coordination of mechanics, execution and follow up of planned work. In addition, the maintenance leader is responsible for developing planned maintenance strategies that support safety, people engagement, quality, cost, reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives. This position may be fixed on day shift or support off shifts; independent of shift schedule, this position is responsible to coach and develop leads / teams on every shift within their area/lines.

As a key member of our team, you will play an important role in driving our mission forward. The following responsibilities outline the core expectations and contributions for this position:

• Ensure the safety of all associates and our products
• Attend and support all line meetings as part of the Daily Direction Setting (DDS) process
• Work with Line Leaders and Process Engineers in the development and execution of Plan for the Day and loss elimination activities.
• Communicate metrics for maintenance and reliability activities. Owns and drives improvement around planned and unplanned downtime, # breakdowns, MTBF & MTTR metrics for their lines.
• Owns Breakdown Elimination, Defect Handling, & Planning and Scheduling. Coaches teams through effective execution of these processes and builds capability and ownership of these systems down to the team level over time.
• Meet with each shift daily to review work completed and provide direction and follow up
• Maintain maintenance schedules for owned lines and ensure adequate coverage in a consistent and equitable way that is consistent with the contract and state regulations
• Create daily assignments for mechanics on each shift the support planned maintenance and loss elimination initiatives. Focuses on engaging mechanics in proactive work that will improve line predictability/stability.
• Provides resourcing and support to line owned autonomous maintenance activities
• Follow up on safety, quality and major losses with root cause analysis
• Support off shift critical work and emergency repairs where required
• Identify gaps and roadblocks to successful execution of line maintenance plans and develop plans to close gaps
• Monitor metrics, develop plans, and propose solutions for improvement
• Participate in the annual budgeting process, support cost goals, and identify productivity opportunities
• Support Planned Maintenance Pillar, System and Tools implementation
• Support Systems and Equipment Ownership capability development
• Lead and Support Early Equipment Management Activities, including possible startup leadership for projects within their area
• Actively participation in Pillar activities (i.e. Quality, Focused Improvement, Safety, etc.) including but not limited to observations, inspections, and recommendations.
• Own respective QMS standard and execute all processes, including all documentation specification requirements.

• General Maintenance:

• Reviews work orders to determine work priorities. Schedules repair, maintenance, and installation of machines,…