Assistant Maintenance Manager

Assistant Maintenance Manager Job Description

Are you looking for an excellent opportunity in the field of commercial baking? We have a great position at a well‑known, consumer packaged goods company for a person to assist in our maintenance efforts at a large commercial bakery. This is an exciting role to drive equipment reliability to deliver our high quality products to shelves and ultimately your table every day.

This person plays a vital role in ensuring smooth, efficient operations and striving for operational excellence. He or she will be part of the team leading and directing a maintenance team in a fast‑paced environment to ensure that all equipment is operational and running to deliver product for sales’ needs. He or she will be responsible for ensuring short‑ and long‑term strategies around preventive, reactive and running maintenance programs.

He or she will collaborate positively with production, sanitation, quality, continuous improvement and other stakeholders to ensure operational success for the plant and minimized downtime. This leader will ensure team members embrace a positive, collaborative environment throughout the facility to meet production goals. There is a preference for commercial baking or food manufacturing experience, but it is not required.

In addition to the technical aspects of the position, he or she will be responsible for leading, coaching, training and developing a high‑performance maintenance team. He or she will hold supervisors and employees accountable in all aspects of their roles including maintenance, positive culture, safety, quality, operational and financial metrics.

We are committed to excellence in nourishing our consumers, customers, and employees by delivering great tasting, high quality baked goods with the highest standards of trust, integrity, and leadership. The person in this position will help deliver this mission through achieving many activities all related to protecting our people and our product with properly running equipment:

• Foster a positive culture of employee engagement, accountability and dignity and respect with all employees. Be a role model for living the company mission, values, mentoring and leading the department.
• Communicate, motivate, and delegate effectively with all levels of the organization on all matters. Maintain clear and open communication with team members and other departments. Share important information and updates relevant to the team’s work.
• Establish, maintain, and set expectations for a clean, safe work environment in compliance with Company, Industry and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.
• Lead and manage a team of maintenance technicians. Ensure proper staffing levels, assign tasks, provide guidance, ensure that all team members are well‑trained and adhere to safety standards and company protocol. Promote safety and ethical standards.
• Address and mediate conflicts or issues that arise among team members, fostering a cooperative team dynamic.
• Conduct and manage routine inspections, preventive maintenance, and quick responses to equipment failure. Lead the Maintenance function in providing both a reactive and pro‑active, multi‑skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment and facilities infrastructure.
• Increase plant operational effectiveness, improve on project delivery, mean time between failure and downtime reduction, and manage and implement maintenance improvement plans, driving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Guide the team effectively to address issues related to manufacturing equipment – conveyors, proof boxes, ovens, mixers, etc. and assist as needed in these repairs.
• Report and take necessary action to prevent food safety, product quality or other legal matters.
• Optimize equipment according to OEM standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality.
• Ensure good housekeeping throughout the plant, maintenance shop and parts room at all times.
• Analyze maintenance processes and work to improve efficiency and effectiveness, through the implementation of new technologies or methodologies such…