Maintenance/Reliability Supervisor, Food Processing, Portland, OR

This position is offered by a recruiter, Connie Dorigan

Maintenance/Reliability Supervisor, Food Processing, Portland, OR
Responsible for working with and developing, managing and leading a world-class maintenance organization for maintaining the Company's long-term competitiveness. This position requires the ability to demonstrate excellent team building, people management, and leadership skills; strong interpersonal and communication skills, including face to face, written, and presentation skills, and excellent external and internal functional/ cross-functional communications skills.
The ideal candidate will have/be:

• AS or BS Degree preferred (not required) in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Supervisory experience over direct reports in maintenance in a high speed FMCG manufacturing plant 
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment, developing, leading, and executing proven maintenance reliability programs, management of maintenance budgeting processes, and frontline maintenance leadership. 
• Prior experience in a food and/or chemical continuous processing plant preferred.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Oversee and direct technician assignments across all shifts, basing decisions on manpower, technical ability, knowledge, and production priorities.
• Communicate and coordinate with Production Supervisors and Plant Engineering to determine the most efficient and timely corrective action in response to equipment breakdowns.
• Track, schedule, and assign corrective and preventive maintenance activities.
• Ensure technicians are creating work orders to document activities, and entering accurate and thorough information.
• Verify assigned work orders are completed in a timely manner and work quality is acceptable
• Manage and approve technician work hours, vacation, sick days, etc.
• Perform technician coaching, reviews and disciplinary actions.
• Responsible for planning, organizing and directing the activities across all shifts.
• Ensure successful leadership and integration of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) processes into the overall organization.
• Effectively communicate RCM strategy, goals and results across the organization as it relates to Maintenance and within the Maintenance Organization.
• Establish and influence the use of best practices and strategic benchmarks for assessing maintenance processes.
• Define and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for measuring progress.
• Develop training programs and development/progression plans for technicians.
• Develop strategic partnerships across the company and with third party contractors to increase overall reliability.
• Develop and manage cross-functional improvement strategies.
• Identify opportunities in establishment of the RCM model, assess progress and develop strategic programs for addressing the opportunities.
• Lead and direct effective interactions and positive cooperation through work relationships between all levels of the organization
• Champion the organizations values by leading best practices in maintenance by supporting Safety and Quality initiatives.
• Ensure the maintenance and operation of the equipment, systems, and processes for the overall facility meet compliance standards of all external regulatory agencies to include: PMO, OSHA, EPA, FDA and all other applicable regulations.

 
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Connie Dorigan      Condor1@dorigan.com
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