Maintenance Manager

at Basic American Foods in Blackfoot, Idaho, United States

Job Description

This Maintenance Manager position plays a crucial role in leadership for the maintenance department which provides essential service to all areas of plant operations. The degree of efficiency achieved in the applications of this required service has a significant impact on the plant's ability to maintain a competitive position in the markets.

About Basic American Foods

Basic American Foods is supplying essential and innovative food to America and beyond. From our humble beginnings with a vision of moving excess food from California to the East Coast, we are now a critical supplier in the foodservice industry with shelf-stable potatoes and beans. (What is food service? Think restaurants, cafeterias or many places you buy a cooked meal!) We are also an innovator in the Health and Wellness space with our Modern Table brand bringing healthy, yummy and easy meals to everyday life.

Why work for Basic American Foods?

This position is in beautiful Southeastern Idaho, we are a family-owned, family-friendly and growing company that highly values our employees and innovation. We are growing both our established business as well as in the Consumer and Health & Wellness space to be an innovator and leader. This growth will give you challenging opportunities as well as the ability to grow your career. Additionally, as a medium-sized business, the contributions you make are much more visible and impactful. Our size also allows us to be more flexible with career interests. It is an exciting time to join!

Job Summary

This position is accountable for planning, organizing, and administering policies, practices, and procedures related to all aspects of plant maintenance and assuring optimum utilization of assigned materials, capital, and personnel.

Job Duties

1. Deliver strategic and tactical direction to the maintenance department. This includes providing the leadership and guidance necessary to establish and execute best practices for areas of responsibility.
2. Budgetary responsibility for assigned accounts and capital expenditures.
3. Maximize throughput by the elimination of unscheduled downtime and achieving performance enhancements to the processes and machinery. Champion Total Process Reliability (TPR) philosophy through the use of workgroups focused on improving equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and performance, employee knowledge, and skills, as well as working with engineering to improve how equipment is designed, manufactured, and installed.
4. Work with other facility departments to ensure compliance with regulatory and legislative codes and company requirements.
5. Support all strategy deployment initiatives and goals. Provide support for all functionalities within the facility.
6. Responsible to coordinate long-range maintenance plans with all plant and campus departments. This includes regularly communicating all plant facility plans to affected departments.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree required preferably in mechanical, chemical, or electrical engineering with a minimum of five years of related experience with an additional two years of leadership experience. Demonstrates experience in the application of continuous improvement and root cause analysis tools (TPR, kaizen, 5S, 5 Why, fishbone, etc.).

Location

Blackfoot, ID

We are an equal opportunity employer