Chief Operating Engineer

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like ®, ®, and ®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers' expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

The Chief Operating Engineer is a strategic leader responsible for overseeing the engineering team and ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of the facility. They promote a culture of safety as the top priority and drive continuous improvement efforts to identify cost savings and growth initiatives. The Chief Operating Engineer aligns the site goals with business unit objectives, providing input to leadership teams and implementing energy efficiency programs to improve operations. They lead, coach, and develop the engineering team, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and promotes a culture where Health and Safety is the #1 priority. Provides leadership and support for Health & Safety initiatives within the department.
• Promotes and ensures compliance with the Operating Engineers Regulation, Technical Standards and Safety Act and all codes and regulations referred to within this Act, Health & Safety policies and procedures within the engineering department, all HACCP requirements within the Engineering Department.
• Provides overall direction, support, coaching and leadership to the team to achieve prescribed objectives and align department and individual efforts to the vision, mission, strategy and culture.
• Monitors, measures, coaches and develops direct reports, ensures adherence to policies and procedures, provides recognition, evaluates and provides feedback on performance, addresses performance concerns and resolves problems.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts and identifies cost saving and growth initiatives.
• Implements, supports and maintains energy efficiency programs to improve operations and energy efficiency.
• Monitors, adjusts, and tracks all equipment and systems to help reduce energy / utility costs and actively promote energy efficiency.
• Directs and supervises the facilities' operating engineers, contractors, and technicians to meet prescribed objectives and applies proper communication and motivational techniques to ensure employee satisfaction and participation.
• Ensures temperature requirements of the bakery are met, and monitors, logs, and ensures that daily inspections of refrigeration, building, equipment are carried out by engineering staff.
• Ensures that Operating Engineers monitors and maintains an effective preventative maintenance program for refrigeration and building systems.
• Champions company-wide programs for increasing employee engagement, communications and people development.
• Operates within and promotes compliance with the Code of Business Conduct, company policies and procedures, and all statues and legislation governing the workplace.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A high school diploma or GED is required.
• Must have 7-10 years' experience in a refrigerated manufacting environment is required.
• Must hold valid Class A Refrigeration Certificate OR Second Class Power Engineer Certificate.
• Experience with ammonia referfigeration.
• Team builder who is self-managed and able to set priorities among conflicting priorities.

We thank each applicant for taking the time and effort to submit your resume, however, only candidates to be interviewed will be contacted. Our organization is committed to promoting the independence, dignity, integration, and equality of opportunity of persons with disabilities by ensuring the accessibility of our facilities and services. Accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment and selection process. Applicants need to make their required accommodations known in advance.