Maintenance Manager in Training - Council Bluffs, IA

Company: Swift Prepared Foods
Location: Council Bluffs
Posted on: February 21, 2021

Job Description:

Description We are hiring a Maintenance Manager in Training, Full Time, Salaried position for our Council Bluffs, IA plant location.

We offer a full range of benefits including health care, life insurance, and a 401 (K) plan.

Scope of Position:
---------The maintenance manager in training is responsible for directing plant maintenance activities. This includes providing direction to the maintenance team in the maintenance of production equipment in a manner that ensures employee safety, product safety, and quality and compliance to production schedules. This position will also manage all maintenance costs for the plant.

Responsibilities:

• Owner of maintenance KPI's
• Coordinates the development of RCA's and action plans to solve problems and make improvements.
• Assist the Business Development & Engineering team in establishing and executing capital budgets.
• Ensure team member safety through training and completion/tracking of safety work orders.
• Ensure food safety & quality as it relates to plant maintenance activities and programs.
• Responsible for plant schedule attainment as it relates to plant maintenance activities and programs.
• Deliver cost KPI's including MRO inventory & plant maintenance costs.
• Oversee measurement, tracking, and planning for safety, quality, repair, and preventative maintenance programs.
• Set the maintenance culture for the plant and uphold Swift values.
• Work closely with the maintenance manager, planner, supervisors, and maintenance director.
• Monitor and analyze maintenance downtime to improve production uptime as efficiently as possible.
• Manage, develop, and maintain vendor support to ensure the most cost-effective solutions.
• Make recommendations to the leadership team to improve the maintenance function.
• Will require travel to other plants to assist as needed.
• Be able to fill vacancies with supervisors, planners, and managers.
• When maintenance manager positions open, be ready and available to fill the role.
  Skills and Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree, 3+ years of maintenance supervisor experience, 3+ years of maintenance planner experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience with repair and maintenance of manufacturing equipment
  • Experience with ammonia refrigeration systems and PSM programs is a plus
    
    Work Environment:
    • Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle/feel items, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear.
    • Office and plant setting: the plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold (non-weather related), and working near moving mechanical parts.
    • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area
      Our Company, Your Opportunity:
      Nearly 150 years ago, Gustavus Swift founded Swift & Company, which was strategically located in Chicago. He was a true pioneer whose passion and innovative spirit transformed the meat industry, including the introduction of the refrigerated railway car to transport meat more effectively to customers and consumers across the United States. This commitment to transformation mirrors that of Swift Prepared Foods today - a prepared foods company on a journey to realize the full potential of protein.
      
      To be THE BEST in all we do. We are completely focused on our business, ensuring the BEST products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, and profitability for our shareholders. All this, we do provide an opportunity for a better future for all our TEAM MEMBERS.
      
      Swift Prepared Foods is an equal opportunity employer.
      
      EOE/Vet/Disabled
      Required Skills
      ---Bachelor's degree, 3+ years of maintenance supervisor experience, 3+ years of maintenance planner experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
      ---Experience with repair and maintenance of manufacturing equipment
      ---Experience with ammonia refrigeration systems and PSM programs is a plus
      

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