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Description
Description
TITLE: Engineering & Maintenance Manager
REPORTS TO: Plant Director
LOCATION: Walton, New York
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Walton, NY.
Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.
If you're looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!
Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.
From your PASSION to ours
Flexible and agile, ideal candidates are willing to contribute improvements, suggestions and ideas to help continue the success of our facility, while maintaining high safety and quality standards of production. Motivated candidates driven to succeed will find ample opportunities for continued professional growth within a team oriented, fast paced working environment. Maintenance Manager will be responsible for working with the Maintenance and Engineering Teams in developing, managing and leading a world-class maintenance organization for maintaining the Company's long-term competitiveness. This position requires the individual to demonstrate excellent team building, people management, and leadership skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills, including face to face, written, and presentation, and excellent external and internal functional / cross-functional communications skills.
From your EXPERTISE to ours
Key responsibilities for this position include:
- Implement and control the maintenance budget, including for capital expenditures.
- Responsible for preventive maintenance program, verification of work order completion, and management of maintenance technician's time on shift.
- Responsible for ensuring repairs are completed, defect tag program is maintained, stockroom is sufficiently maintained at levels necessary
- Responsible for the environmental compliance of the plant's equipment and environmental systems.
- Responsible for the direction and management of the maintenance department and it's resources
- Responsible for sound communication between the maintenance team and the engineering team, and with all internal customers to ensure a strong support system exists.
- Responsible for ensuring adequate training of maintenance team, conducting performance evaluations, and managing discipline
- May be required to travel for training and meetings
- This job description is not an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements, but a general description of the job.
Requirements
From your STORY to ours
Qualified applicants will contribute the following:
- Must have a sufficiently broad background including but not limited to establishing and maintaining budgets, maintenance management strategies and philosophies, packaging and processing equipment, maintenance systems, equipment installation and start-ups, plant facility and utility equipment, focused in the individual's area of responsibility.
- Experience working with vendors
- Strong interpersonal and team skills to function as a team member and leader.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- 7+ years supervisory or managerial experience required
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.
