Title:Maintenance Manager, 1st Shift Req ID: 4923

City, State:Hartwell, GA

Reports to:Corporate Maintenance Manager

Classification:

Relocation: Nationwide relocation assistance is available

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary: The Maintenance Manager oversees all plant maintenance and parts inventory programs. This position is responsible for the management, development, training, and support for all plant maintenance operations.

Essential Functions:

• Manages the activities of the maintenance supervisors and team and is responsible for the overall all production maintenance and parts inventory function for the facility.
• Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP's, SOP's, SSOP's, HACCP and SQF. Works with Scheduling and Production to coordinate, plan and execute plant downtime to facilitate equipment installation or repair projects.
• Develops and maintains programs, such as Preventative Maintenance, Downtime Analysis, etc. which will enable the plant to continuously improve its equipment utilization, productivity, and efficiency.
• Mentors and motivates supervisors and technicians, providing training and development to optimize their performance and personal growth. Communicates performance standards, recognizing and rewarding individual and team accomplishments and counseling performance problems. Ensures all supervisors and technicians have the resources and capabilities to effectively accomplish their responsibilities.
• Participates in regular meetings with plant management to discuss maintenance improvements and participates in various plant teams and committees, such as Accident Review, HACCP Team and Food Defense Team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Industrial Technology or equivalent, with 5-10 years plant maintenance experience, including at least three years of supervision.
• Extensive computerized maintenance management system knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
• Proven time-management and organizational/office skills including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CMRP Certified strongly preferred.
• Plant Maintenance experience preferably from a USDA facility
• Water Jet Cutting and Further Poultry Processing experience preferred
• Experience with SAP or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will manage the Maintenance Supervisors and maintenance team at the Irving Facility.

Work Environment: The work environment will include temperature variations (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment), noise level variations that may require hearing protection, wet and damp conditions, slippery floors, and both inside and outside work environments.

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

Position Type: This is an exempt, full-time, onsite position. This is primarily a first shift position; however, some 2nd shift, 3rd shift, Saturdays and Sundays may be needed.

Travel: Some travel maybe required for trainings and classes.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug testand background check arerequired.

Brakebush Brothers, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in our hiring, training, or promotion policies. We will not discriminate against job applicants or employees for reasons of race, religion, color, sex, handicap, age, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by law.Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.