Maintenance Manager

Pilgrim's • $90K — $109K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or equivalent experience.
  • 5-10 years of maintenance and engineering experience in a fresh protein harvest facility.
  • Over 5 years of management experience with a focus on leadership and people development.
  • Experience in interpreting strategy and policy to set objectives over medium to long timeframes.
  • Strong electrical background, including PLC and industrial electrical experience.
  • History of work in the rendering and animal food sector.

Responsibilities

  • Execute site projects within budget, timelines, and quality standards.
  • Communicate and promote business strategy to motivate team commitment.
  • Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, including OSHA and FSIS.
  • Analyze data trends to guide senior-level decision-making.
  • Estimate labor for maintenance tasks and draw valid conclusions from data.
  • Interpret technical instructions across various formats and variables.
  • Collaborate with management and vendors on maintenance and engineering projects.
  • Design and propose new equipment to enhance production and quality.

Benefits

  • Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage after 60 days of employment.
  • Paid Time Off including sick leave, vacation, and 6 company holidays.
  • 401(k) with company match after the first year of service.
  • Eligibility for annual bonus plan based on company terms.
  • Career development opportunities through continuous learning programs.
Full Job Description
Description

Maintenance Manager - Protein Conversion

Job Purpose

Directs and manages a team of maintenance personnel in a protein conversion facility to include maintenance supervisor, parts room attendant, and wastewater supervisor as well as mechanics, rendering and steam generation operation. Leads and supervises capital expenditures, projects and facility expansions while maintaining production efficiencies within budgetary parameters. Drives continuous improvement within the maintenance organization.

Responsibilities
  • Successfully executes all site projects using expertise to manage projects and/or programs within desired budget, timelines, and quality parameters.
  • Communicates and promotes the business strategy and clarifies the actions needed to implement it within the area of responsibility; motivates and ensures the team's commitment to achieving the organization's business goals.
  • Understands and is knowledgeable of all local, state, and federal laws and regulations, including Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and Environmental Protection Agency to ensure environmental, health, and safety processes are executed and in compliance.
  • Acts as the business unit expert to analyze data trends to help guide decision-making at a senior level.
  • Estimates the labor required to perform maintenance tasks, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
  • Acts as the business unit's expert to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, written and/or verbal form and work with several abstract and concrete variables.
  • Collaborates with senior management, contractors, vendors, and suppliers to support maintenance and engineering projects
  • Propose, design and introduce new equipment needed to automate processes within the facility to maximize production and labor efficiencies while improving product quality.

Education & Experience

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty/function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the environment, knowledge, skills, and/or ability required or preferred. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions as listed below.
  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum of 5 to 10 years of maintenance and engineering experience or similar position in a fresh protein harvest facility.
  • Wide and deep management experience providing expert competence over 5 years with demonstrated leadership and people development skills.
  • Experience interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long timeframes.
  • Strong electrical background (PLC, instrumentation, industrial electrical experience) preferred
  • Demonstrated history of work primarily disciplined in the rendering and animal food sector.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to move around the facility. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to hot, cold and/or humid conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock and vibration may exist. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud requiring hearing protection in all protection areas.

NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE: The hours and days of work are established by departmental needs and at the discretion of management.

  • Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;
  • Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays;
  • 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule;
  • Base Salary range of $90,005.00 - $109,356.30
  • Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company's annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program; and
  • Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs;
  • Better Futures


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