Maintenance Manager - Taylor Farms

About Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc.

Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. is dedicated to being North America’s favorite maker of salads and healthy fresh foods. Our “Taylor Family” includes over 20,000 team members who are passionate about making high quality, great tasting products for families across North America. As we continue to rapidly grow, we have a career opportunity available for a talented and motivated individual to join our Taylor Farms New Jersey team as Maintenance Manager, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey.

About the role:

The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for leading supervisors and through them, hourly mechanics in achieving preventative maintenance goals, reactive maintenance occurrences, increased skill attainment by mechanics, and ensuring production equipment uptime to allow production to fulfill customer orders. The Maintenance Manager will have visibility to and responsibility toward weekly spending against budget and will ensure that both mechanic entries into the CMMS are timely and accurate as well as processes around part usage and inventory are followed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring the normal operation of systems and equipment in the plant.
• Review downtime and resolve by updating or modifying the preventative maintenance plan or predictive solutions.
• Coordinates equipment repairs, including food production equipment, freezers, ovens, coolers.
• Send out maintenance schedules on a weekly basis that conform to hour and OT departmental plan.
• Develops & directs internal mechanical, electrical, and instrument shift maintenance activities, instrument calibration & repair activities, and spare parts management to safely achieve required manufacturing equipment utilization, reliability, and efficiencies.
• Evaluate, define, develop, and implement procedures and equipment changes for maintenance effectiveness measurement, predictive maintenance programs, EHS compliance, or building and other codes compliance.
• Monitors and improves employee efficiency and productivity. Conducts staff meetings, performance evaluations, and provides leadership for subordinate supervisors and employees.
• Develops close working relationship with production and quality management.
• Coordinates the manufacturing launch of new/revised products with the production team.
• Ensure knowledge of and adherence to; plant policies and government regulatory agencies (FDA/USDA) requirements.
• Promotes established safety programs and ensures safe operating procedures and monitors employee compliance.
• Ensures compliance to GMP's, SOP's and company policies.
• Ensures plant facility and equipment are maintained according to standards.
• Member of HACCP team.

Experience/Skills/Abilities Required:

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in related field preferred.
• 3 years management experience within maintenance department, ideally in a food processing plant.
• Demonstrate strong computer skills (systems, CMMS, AutoCAD & MS Office).
• Excellent verbal and written communication ability.
• Proven track record of leadership development amongst a team and a personality that seeks to achieve goals and a lead by example approach from the floor/on a machine.
• Proven ability to develop KPIs, planning functions, concrete examples of policy creation and personnel development required.
• Proven leadership and people management skills in a high paced, multicultural environment.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented team player with strong people skills.
• Bilingual a plus.