Maintenance Manager

Job Title: Maintenance Manager

Location: Booneville, MS

Our Company, Your Opportunity:

JBS Foods is a company with an 80-year history of providing high quality, great tasting sliced meats, bacon, ham and ribs.  This is a unique opportunity to be in a start-up environment, with the backing of a Global CPG Powerhouse.  This is a role for someone who is looking for an entrepreneurial challenge in a company with aspirations to be leaders within the CPG world.  The position will have both strategic and tactical elements and the person may wear different hats.  This is an opportunity for people who want to think Big, dream Big and work to make Big ideas a reality.

Our Mission:

To be THE BEST in all we do.  We are completely focused on our business, ensuring the BEST products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers and profitability for our shareholders.  All this, we do to provide an opportunity for a better future for all of our TEAM MEMBERS.

Values:

Scope of Position:
 

The maintenance manager is responsible for directing plant maintenance activities. Provide direction to the maintenance team in maintenance of production equipment in a manner that ensures employee safety, product safety, and quality and compliance to production schedules. This position will also manage all maintenance costs for the plant.

Responsibilities:

• Overall owner of maintenance KPI’s
• Coordinates the development of RCA’s and action plans to solve problems and make improvements
• Assist the Business Development & Engineering team in establishing and executing capital budgets
• Ensure team member safety through training and completion/tracking of safety work orders
• Ensure food safety & quality as it relates to plant maintenance activities and programs
• Responsible for plant schedule attainment as it relates to plant maintenance activities and programs
• Deliver cost KPI’s including MRO inventory & plant maintenance costs
• Oversee measurement, tracking and planning for safety, quality, repair and preventative maintenance programs
• Set the maintenance culture for the plant and uphold JBS values
• Work closely with the plant manager and maintenance director
• Monitor and analyze maintenance down time to improve production up time as efficiently as possible
• Manage, develop and maintain programs for hiring, training & professional development for the maintenance team
• Manage, develop and maintain vendor support to ensure the most cost-effective solutions
• Make recommendations to the leadership team to improve the maintenance function
• Travel when needed
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar fields and/or 3+ years of maintenance management experience.
• 5+ years maintenance experience with a consumer-packaged goods food plant, food manufacturing equipment, specifically sliced meat processing.  Experience with repair and maintenance of food manufacturing equipment, and strongly preferred sliced meat processing
• Experience with ammonia refrigeration systems and PSM programs
• PC / software skills including CAD.
• 2-3 years in a Management experience,
• As a salaried position with the company, you may be required to travel at some point to other facilities, to attend Company events, or as a representative of the Company in other situations. Unless otherwise specified in this posting, the amount of travel may vary and the most qualified candidate must be willing and able to travel as business needs dictate.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle/feel items, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear.
• Office and plant setting: the plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold (non-weather related), and working near moving mechanical parts
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.

The applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:

• Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;
• Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays;
• 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule;
• Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program; and
• Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.

If interested, please apply at jbssa.com/careers

We offer a full range of benefits including health care, life insurance, and a 401 (K) plan.

JBS Prepared Foods is an equal opportunity employer.

EOE, including disability/vets