Maintenance Operations Manager

1 week ago

Sunnyside, Washington, United States Darigold Full time
About the Role

Darigold is seeking an experienced and driven Maintenance Operations Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess the desire and ability to plan, organize, and direct technical personnel and programs to ensure that our plant conforms to our defined standards on safety, quality, cost, and reliability, as well as federal, state, and local regulations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leadership and Strategic Partnership: Serve as a leader and partner for the plant in the areas of plant maintenance, automation & controls, capital projects, wastewater treatment, utility systems, maintenance support services, and maintenance training.
  • Maintenance Program Development: Develop and deliver on maintenance programs with an emphasis towards OEE-based performance.
  • Asset Management: Responsible to maintain manufacturing assets and facility, parts inventory, monitor PO's, invoice approvals, and manage department budget.
  • Capital Expenditure Oversight: Work with corporate and site engineering to oversee capital expenditure.
  • Utility Management: Oversee plant utilities including steam generation, power distribution, glycol, ammonia, cooling towers, domestic tempered water, plant HVAC systems, water distribution systems, fire suppression, etc.
  • Training and Development: Train and enforce GMP practices, zoning requirements, tool cleaning procedures, etc. with employees.
  • Employee Safety and Well-being: Manage a safe working environment for all mechanics, automation technicians, utilities maintenance, WWTP operators, engineers, etc.
  • Wastewater Treatment and Compliance: Oversee the wastewater treatment plant and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Emergency Response: Provide emergency response.
  • Predictive and Preventative Maintenance: Develop and establish a robust preventative and predictive maintenance program.
  • Vendor and Contractor Management: Work directly with vendors, contractors, and data to understand planned PM requirements and improvements.
  • Plant Engineering Library Management: Maintain plant engineering library (drawings, functional descriptions, GA's, etc.).
  • Maintenance Support Services: Manage maintenance support services including parts purchasing, contractor scheduling & alignment, and maintenance planning.
  • ERP Implementation and Improvement: Responsible for the implementation and continuous improvement of the maintenance parts inventory, purchasing, and planning ERP.
  • KPI Development and Tracking: Develop leading and lagging KPI's critical to demonstrate maintenance performance (e.g., OEE, planned vs. unplanned work, labor allocation, PM schedule adherence, process stops, minor stops, cost of maintenance, unplanned downtime, breakdown etc.).
  • Reliability Improvement: Utilize continuous improvement tools to improve plant reliability including defect handling, CIL (clean inspect lubricate), breakdown analysis, etc.
  • Customer Concern Resolution: Partner with plant personnel and direct reports to resolve customer concerns and root cause analysis for off spec production.
  • FMEA Analysis: Perform FMEA analysis for facility during construction and during plant operation; implement mitigation strategies cross-functionally with other project team members.
  • Professional Relationships: Maintain a professional working relationship with plant management, customers, and vendors.
  • Electronic Systems Development: Work cross-functionally to develop robust electronic systems (PM program, maintenance training, safety tools and resources, etc.).
  • Process Auditing and Controls: Organize process auditing and process auditing controls to bring visibility to PM quality, time allocation of maintenance resources, cost control, and adherence to safety and GMP standards.
  • Initiative and Flexibility: Possess a high degree of initiative and flexibility to meet commissioning and operational needs post-commissioning.
About You

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Maintenance Operations Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have:

  • Education: B.S. in Engineering or related field OR an associate degree in a technical field with the correct combination of leadership experience.
  • Experience: 8 to 10 years combined experience in plant maintenance and engineering; minimum of 5 years in supervisory capacity.
  • Maintenance Experience: Maintenance experience with dairy processing, and consumer packaging.
  • Process Control Systems: Experience with process control systems, PLC's, instrumentation, and automation.
  • Computer Literacy: Complete understanding of computer driven process controls for a dairy manufacturing facility, and PC literate.
Nice to Have

We are also looking for candidates with:

  • Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and writing skills.
  • Dairy Industry Experience: Experience in dairy, beverage, packaging, or processing industry. Preference given to candidates with dairy processing, and consumer packaging experience.
  • Technical Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge and experience with mechanical systems, plant automation, fluid processing, carpentry, electrical, building maintenance, wastewater treatment, steam generation, and refrigeration.
  • PSM and Risk Management: PSM and risk management experience with an ammonia refrigeration system preferred.
  • Troubleshooting: Ability to troubleshoot reliability issues in a manufacturing environment in a plant that operates 24/7.

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