Maintenance Lead - Joplin Plant - General Mills

POSITION OVERVIEW 

The Maintenance Lead provides safety and engaged-based leadership to achieve breakthrough production results on their platform / system. The Maintenance Lead is responsible for building capability in Operating Teams and Equipment Owners. The Maintenance Lead works to eliminate losses following a rigorous daily process that is data driven and focused on root cause elimination. The Maintenance Lead is accountable to improve the reliability of the system through ownership in defect handling, breakdown elimination and planning and scheduling. This position leverages the process discipline of continuous improvement tools. The Maintenance Lead is the Planned Maintenance (PM) System owner for their lines.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES 

Leadership

• Build capability of the line team and technicians to understand their equipment at component level in addition to identifying and resolving defects and improving asset life.
• Analysis of equipment performance and improving component life.
• Leads portions of the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly DDS (daily direction setting) meetings, including: 
  • Daily reporting and prioritization of defects found/ fixed as well as total backlog
  • Daily reporting of breakdowns as well as initiation and execution of Breakdown Elimination
  • Contribute to development and execution of the plan for the day
  • Weekly BE dice chart overview and development of line team and technicians through sharing and educating BE learnings
  • Weekly tracking and reporting of maintenance measurement data - Backlog, MTTC, PM Completion (Indicators of health of P&S system)
• Identifies and address safety risks related to maintenance activities (standard and non-standard) and prioritizing safety risks identified through DH. Includes maintenance work completed during planned stops.
• Deliver spring plan M/R Costs for the Line (Materials, Services, OT).

Foundational Systems

• Maximo data integrity and adherence to Maximo standards.
• Health of DH system: Leads documentation of standards and coaches the Line Team and technicians through the identification, prioritization and resolution of defects.
• Breakdown Elimination: Identification of triggers, tracking of BE’s through dice chart, ensuring completion of BE’s and implementation of countermeasures.
• Planning & Scheduling: Plans, schedules and assigns all work (CM and PM) for the line prioritizing as it relates to addressing top stops/ losses. Including shutdown planning.

Loss Elimination

• Supports development and leads execution of 90-Day improvement plan to deliver glidepath through loss elimination.

People Leadership

• If the Maintenance Lead will directly manage the mechanics on the system they own, these additional accountabilities apply:
• Manage the shift:
  • Daily staffing
  • Directing work of mechanics
  • Shift Hand-offs
  • Workbrain/Workforce
  • Onboarding of employees
  • Team Development
  • Pay and Performance management and incentives
  • Own accuracy and timeliness of performance metrics for shift
  • Execution of shift specific improvement plan actions
  • Coordination/execution of shutdown activities

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related degree with applicable experience or extensive relevant work experience
• Willing to take risks in decision-making and implementation of improvements
• Ability to identify training needs of maintenance mechanics
• Strong interpersonal skills, including verbal, written, electronic, listening and feedback communications
• Strong proficiency in computer skills to include of Microsoft Office applications, specifically, PowerPoint, Excel and the creation of spreadsheets and analysis of large sets of data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• 5 years prior maintenance leadership in a manufacturing plant
• Demonstrated ability to enforce all FDA, EPA, OSHA, and GMI specific safety and regulatory laws, policies, or practices
• Working knowledge of Line Centric teams
• Prior experience and knowledge of the Maximo CMMS System
• Practical experience with Continuous Improvement (CI) tools
• Ability to adjust to multiple demands, shifting work priorities, ambiguity, adversity, and change
• Ability to motivate team members and to help them develop pride and ownership
• Ability to train, coach and develop team members in problem solving activities
• Strong planning, organization and prioritization skills with practical knowledge of Planning & Scheduling

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.