Manager, Engineering & Maintenance

• Identifies current and future maintenance requirements.

• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual maintenance budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

• Ensures operations productivity by determining work priorities and scheduling repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment.

• Designs, implements, and modifies preventive maintenance programs by reviewing production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics; inspecting operating machines, equipment, and systems for conformance with operational standards.

• Complies with all OSHA regulations and PSM requirements.

• Ensures compliance with mechanical, electrical and all other municipal and state codes.

• Resolves maintenance problems.

• Protects employees and visitors by maintaining a safe and clean working environment.

• Completes maintenance operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees. Ensures work results.

• Ensures repairs of handling equipment so it is clean, safe, fully-operational and in good repair.

• Assess future repair needs of equipment and coordinates repairs.

• Direct department activities to design new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and develop test procedures.

• Provide a comprehensive energy plan, which includes: Energy consumption, defined rate goals, strategies, action plans, conservation plans and utilization effectiveness.

• Maintain a working knowledge of new technologies, which may improve operations, and develops recommendations accordingly.

• Maintain a working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.

• Ensure compliance with all federal, state and local environment, health, safety and HR regulations/procedures along with ensuring that all tasks are carried out in a safe and healthful manner with no adverse impact upon the environment.

• Works with General Manager to develop annual budgets

• Works with General Manager to ensure Departmental financial goals are met.

• Works with General Manager to Develop Capital Expense budgets and provide long term planning for facility and equipment improvements.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED).

• Completion of all eight (8) RETA courses.

• HAZMAT certification.

• Five to eight years in warehouse maintenance management experience.

• 3 years general supervisory/management experience

• Requires the ability to successfully complete the requirements of the Americold Certified Maintenance Manager program within 6 (six) months of start date of employment

• Ability to manage employees.

• Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively with variety of individuals.

• Ability to reason, negotiate, instruct, persuade, or speak with others;

• Ability to pay close attention to detail.

• Strong interpersonal skills and judgment in communicating with staff.

• Willingness to develop a mentoring relationship in order to contribute experience, skills, and wisdom to subordinate employees for their development.

• Receptive to management development suggestions and willing to seek additional knowledge to facilitate job growth.

• Must have strong relationship skills, be able to provide and model leadership behaviors including the ability to defuse conflict. Relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: they must get along with others without exhibiting behavioral extremes; perform work activities requiring reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to criticism.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Proven ability to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Ability to interpret HR regulations, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedures manuals.

• Ability to solve complex problems.

• Must have very strong customer service orientation with high sense of urgency in meeting objectives and deadlines.

• Fully competent to a high degree in mechanical knowledge.

• Ability to work with hands in mechanically oriented situations.

• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions, as well as interpret pencil sketches and diagrams.

• Ability to supervise and inspect work performed by all Levels of maintenance associates.

• Must be able to work flexible shifts, if required, including on call

• Ability to work overtime

• Frequently works overtime, evenings, or weekends in order to complete work or to attend meetings

• Must travel up to %

• Knowledge of ISO.

• Knowledge of SAP preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel

• Forklift certification.

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions

• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending

• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work

• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks

• May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business

• May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing

• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds

• Requires the use of various electronic tools

• Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes

• Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management

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