Posted On: 12/18/2018
Assistant Maintenance Manager
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Employment Type: Regular
Location: GRAND RAPIDS,MI
Have you ever enjoyed Arnold, Brownberry or Oroweat bread? A Thomas' English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee, Entenmann's or Marinela cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!
Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company with operations in 32 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA ("BBUSA") includes BBUSA and its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, including, but not limited to, Wholesome Harvest Baking, East Balt, and Acelerada. BBUSA employs 20,000 associates across the U.S. in bakeries, sales centers, corporate offices and on sales routes to ensure our consumers have the freshest products to feed their families at every meal. But our associates come to work for much more - the chance to feed their own lives through exciting work that offers the opportunity to make a real difference in their professional and personal lives every day.
Description:
Position Summary:
Responsibilities include leading an efficient team of mechanics in a baking facility incorporating the highest standards of safety, quality and sanitation. Drives the IPM culture through cross functional teams. Assures effective PM programs to achieve world class waste and downtime goals, high levels of communication, maintaining budget guidelines and environmental compliance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
*Executes the plant's preventative and predictive maintenance program to ensure reliable operational performance of bakery equipment and processes.
*Plans, organizes, directs and controls the work performed by Mechanics utilizing the plant's PM program.
*Provide technical support for PLCs, electrical and mechanical systems or equipment.
*Manage and improve all the components and software required to efficiently operate a primarily automated manufacturing line.
*Monitors Maintenance KPIs and PM system reports and uses these reports to initiate remedial actions to improve maintenance performance.
*Inspect completed work for conformance to specifications and standards.
*Meet project completion time lines.
*Verify compliance to Governmental requirements (OSHA, EPA, FDA)
*Requisition tools, equipment and supplies.
*Responsible for training engineering, maintenance and contractor personnel on Lock-Out / Tag-Out, Confined Space, Hazard Material Handling and Personal Protective Equipment.
*Ensure that maintenance procedures are completed in line with company policies and standards.
*Must be able to ascend and descend building stairways, ladders and ramps to reach job assignments and perform tasks required in job classification. Specific tasks require standing for long periods, climbing, reaching above shoulders, walking, lifting, grasping, kneeling, bending and twisting.
*Must have mental and visual ability to identify various product varieties, read charts of posted manufacturing standards as well as scale weights and equipment controls.
*Job duties are varied and spread over a number of locations in the plant. Therefore, special assignments can be created on a case-by case basis.
*Perform all other related assignments including assisting and training of other associates as required by Supervision.
Position Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS:
*Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required.
*Technical degree in a related field or AIB Maintenance Resident Course a plus.
*Must have a minimum of 5 years of maintenance supervisory experience ideally in a fresh baked goods, bread and muffin or food manufacturing facility or other process manufacturing environment, and strong communication, leadership, and team building skills.
*Strong PLC knowledge base required.
*Operational background in electrical circuitry, and bread and roll production equipment repair.
*Some refrigeration and fuel burning equipment knowledge a must.
*Must be computer literate and have effectively built, developed and led teams.
*Mental and visual ability to identify various parts and read mechanical and electrical drawings, instructions, gauges, micrometers, etc.
*Worker subject to inside work, protected from weather conditions as well as outside conditions. Worker subjected to temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour that is process related and more extreme in summer months.
*Worker subject to noise sufficient to require hearing protection in designated areas.
*Worker subject to hazards such as proximity to moving parts, electrical current, and moving objects carrying considerable weight and force.
*Capable of working in environment of flour dust.
*Work requires the ability to read, write and communicate in English in order to understand and follow work and safety instructions. Must be able to perform basic arithmetic to include adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, disability, gender, age, national origin, orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, reassignment, layoff, discharge, education, training and all other working conditions. To further the principle of equal employment opportunity, Bimbo Bakeries USA has developed affirmative action plans for minorities and women, qualified individuals with disabilities, and Vietnam-era and special disabled veterans and other protected veterans.
