As leader you will create strong partnerships across the business to ensure delivery of US Supply Chain strategies in line with our growth agenda.
You will be responsible for leading, coaching and developing our Plant multi-functional teams to identify best practices, and improvements that will increase our Reliability, Productivity, Efficiency and Effectiveness.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering. Master’s degree preferably.
15 years of experience in Maintenance roles in the CPG industry, or a combination of Maintenance, Engineering and Manufacturing, with a minimum of 8+ years in leadership roles.
Success record developing maintenance/reliability systems and teams, driving significant OEE overall equipment effectiveness improvements, and delivering substantial cost savings.
Clear understanding of food safety standards, and regulations applicable to industrial maintenance.
Transformational mindset. Change agent with resilience and agility.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the entire Maintenance & Reliability (M&R) organization and be responsible for uptime and equipment life across the entire plant, including manufacturing equipment, utilities, and facilities.
- Build, lead and be accountable for M&R execution, reliability, and the facilities & utilities programs, as well as the team capabilities to execute them.
- Establish a strong governance to r- eview and control the effectiveness of the M&R program, its contribution to the overall plant goals, and its progress toward best in class.
- Ensure adherence to business continuity plan, manufacturing standards, GMP (good manufacturing practices), food safety, employee safety, site security, and government. regulations across the site. Guarantee that all employees/service providers at the site understand these requirements, and that they are regularly reviewed and monitored for effective implementation.
- Lead and coach the M&R organization toward implementation and progression of the IL6S (Integrated
- Lean 6 Sigma) program. Establish a culture of zero losses and 100% employee engagement.
- Create and execute strategies to deliver zero breakdowns via preventive/predictive maintenance, technical mastery of maintenance and operations plans, TPM progression, visual controls, tools management, lubrication, calibration of equipment, etc.
- Progressively and systemically eradicate plant downtime and waste loses through the design and execution of a robust strategic plan.
- Play a leading role in the journey toward zero losses. Champion strategic improvements on OEE, MTBF, MTTR, etc. (mean time between failures, mean time to repair).
- Effectively manage M&R budget, delivering annual targets as well as significant year-over-year operational savings through reduction of plant downtime/waste, optimization of maintenance/facilities spend, labor optimization, optimization of maintenance strategies, etc.
- Effectively manage capital budget through optimization of spare parts stock.
- Establish and execute strategies to develop the skillset of the M&R team, both at technical and managerial level.
