Maintenance Manager

at Midwestern Pet Foods in Monmouth, Illinois, United States

Job Description

We are currently seeking a dynamic and experienced Maintenance Manager to join our team. If you are passionate about ensuring the seamless functioning of plant equipment, collaborating across departments to resolve maintenance issues, and implementing proactive maintenance programs, then we invite you to apply for this pivotal role.

Responsibilities:

• Schedules and directs all maintenance technicians.
• Collaborates with other departments to resolve maintenance problems to keep manufacturing equipment operating with an efficient manner.
• Reviews various reports/work orders and confers with the Operations/Plant Manager to review problems and ensure corrective action to minimize downtime.
• Assures, maintains, and repairs all aspects of the plant equipment and facility.
• Develop and maintain a PM program (documented/electronic for history/audit review) for all necessary equipment in the plants. Includes – Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual equipment PMs to schedule and execute.
• Coordinates maintenance department inventory to be certain adequate supply of material and repair parts are in stock to reduce production downtime.
• Creates and maintains Maintenance Daily Summary Report of all maintenance related activities within the last 24 hours.
• Coordinates to ensure the facility, shop and work areas are consistently clean and in safe condition.
• Enforce safety rules daily.
• Continually seek out improvements to be applied to plant processes to increase efficiency.
• Assures, that all food safety guidelines are met by maintenance employees when working on machinery or working in facility.