Maintenance Engineer

• Develop and execute a comprehensive maintenance strategy that supports long-term business goals, focusing on equipment reliability, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Build and nurture a high-performing maintenance team through effective leadership, coaching, and talent development. Foster a collaborative and results-oriented culture.
• Oversee daily maintenance operations, ensuring adherence to established procedures, key performance indicators (KPIs), and safety protocols.
• Demonstrated proficiency in maintaining electrical, industrial controls, mechanical, hydraulic, compressed air, boiler systems, ammonia refrigeration systems, waste treatment systems, and building infrastructure within a high-speed CPG environment.
• Develop and manage maintenance budgets, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Establish and monitor key performance metrics to measure maintenance effectiveness, identify areas for improvement, and drive continuous performance enhancement.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation by identifying and implementing new technologies, processes, and best practices to enhance maintenance efficiency and reliability.
• Utilize continuous improvement methodologies to enhance maintenance efficiency, reduce downtime, and optimize resource utilization. This includes implementing strategies such as 5S, Lean, and TPM to drive operational excellence.
• Ensure strict adherence to safety regulations, environmental standards, and quality requirements. Proactively manage compliance risks.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external service providers, optimizing contract terms and performance.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute capital expenditure projects to enhance equipment and facilities, aligning with long-term maintenance goals.
• Lead root cause analysis investigations for equipment failures, implement corrective actions, and implement preventive measures to minimize downtime.
• Other Duties as required.

Skills and Abilities

• Collaboration: Works independently. Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration.
• Communication: Collaborate clearly with operators, helpers, and team members to ensure smooth production flow in person and via email.

• Team Leadership: Proven ability to build, motivate, and develop high-performance maintenance teams.
• Project management: Ability to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities.
• Engineering Expertise: In-depth knowledge of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and other relevant engineering disciplines.
• Quality control: Possess a keen eye for detail
• Risk Management: Understanding of potential maintenance risks and ability to implement mitigation strategies.
• Physical abilities: Meet the physical demands of the role, including static pull strength of 84 lbs., push 60 lbs., lift 50 lbs. Mount/dismount a sit-down forklift.
• Technical skills: Possess basic computer skills to operate production related software and maintain digital records.
• Compliance: Understanding and adherence to GMP regulations and procedures.
• Systems Proficiency: Ability to utilize CMMS systems (e.g., EMaint) for work order management and maintenance planning.
• Continuous improvement: Maintain a process optimization

Experience and Education

• A Bachelor's Degree (Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical Engineer, or a related science field) An advanced degree (Master's or MBA) is preferred.
• 7-9 years of Manufacturing Maintenance experience. 3-5 Maintenance Management.
• General knowledge of welding, basic metal fabrication, and/or pneumatic and hydraulic systems is a plus.
• Experience in the maintenance of converting and web-fed coating equipment is a plus.
• Experience conducting PMs on Industrial Equipment.
• Forklift experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)