Utilities Maintenance Manager

Utilities Maintenance Manager

Job Summary: 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 Utilities Maintenance Manager, internally called Utilities Maintenance Leader, based in our yogurt manufacturing plant in West Jordan, Utah.

The Utilities Maintenance Leader oversees day-to-day operations, repairs, and maintenance support for plant utility systems, including ammonia and glycol refrigeration, steam boilers, air compressors, electrical distribution, sewer systems, cooling towers, water treatment, HVAC, and facility infrastructure. The role is directly accountable for progressive maintenance pillar activities and for leading the mechanics who support the business unit. This position requires 60% to 80% of the time providing floor leadership, including daily coaching to strengthen mechanic skills and reinforce behaviors that drive performance and compliance with plant programs, processes, and policies.

The Utilities Maintenance Leader also develops and supports planned maintenance strategies that advance safety, engagement, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with the Maintenance Director to implement systems, projects, programs, and staffing aimed at achieving departmental mission and long-term objectives.
• 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.
• Create daily assignments for mechanics on each shift that support planned maintenance and loss elimination initiatives, focusing on engaging mechanics in proactive work that will improve line predictability/stability.
• Support off-shift critical work and emergency repairs when required.
• Monitor metrics, develop plans, and propose solutions for improvement.
• Participate in the annual budgeting process, support cost goals, and identify productivity opportunities.
• Lead loss elimination programs in the utilities area.
• 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.
• Ensure all equipment/machinery is entered into CMMS.
• Create and maintain machine bill of materials.
• Provide weekly/monthly work order cost analysis report to Maintenance Director.
• Develop, implement and execute Predictive/Preventive maintenance procedures and plans.
• Monitor equipment performance, investigate asset failures, analyze data, and develop and execute action plans to improve asset reliability.
• Analyze, identify, recommend, and implement solutions for reducing utilities downtime, and non-value-added activities.
• Lead and facilitate RCA/BDE Root Causes Analysis/Break Down Elimination, and assist in the development of the capital plan for cost reduction-related projects to support business objectives.
• Ensure that environmental systems operate within permit guidelines and that audits of these systems are performed.

Physical Demands:

• While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; taste and/or smell, talk and hear.
• Ability to bend & stoop at waist level as well as bend & twist neck and head.
• The employee must regularly endure repetitive minimal to moderate lifting 10lbs up to 50lbs and occasional team lifting above 50lbs. Requires normal range of hearing and vision (including colors) to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports and results.
• The employee is frequently standing on a concrete surface for 8-, 10- or 12-hour shifts.
• Occasionally may need to climb on stairs, step ladders, stool.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Ability to work up to 12-hour shifts.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and may be exposed to loud noises in the plant. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to extreme cold, risk of electrical shock and vibration.

Engagement in our Integrated Work Systems Ensure adherence to plant standards and procedures (including but not limited to GMP, AIB, FDA, IWS, Quality, Safety, Finance, ISO, HOPE, Danone Behaviors, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE). As a…