Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream · 15 hours ago
Manager Maintenance Engineer
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$110K/yr - $140K/yrDreyer's Grand Ice Cream is part of Froneri, a global leader in ice cream, and is looking for a Manager Maintenance Engineer to oversee the site engineering practice and operations. The role focuses on achieving production and cost targets while ensuring food safety and quality through effective management of engineering teams and resources.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingSnack Food
Responsibilities
Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery
Production Plan, kept informed and updated of any changes to this plan in order to plan your team’s daily work and equipment readiness enables plan completion, ensure all machinery is available for production when required
Drive the team to look for issues, and not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task
Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs
Keep a full library of machine manuals, along with support mechanisms linked to site or group resources when information and support is required
Ensure the engineering team attend breakdowns promptly
Ensure effective hand-over within your team making sure they are held accountable for what they do
Create a “one person for one job” policy unless the job requires more or for training; never compromise safety
Ensure all areas are operating under discipline, the workplace, workshop and stores are clean, organized and tidy by maintaining a clean as you go policy in all areas
Drive the production process to ensure that the products produced meet customer specifications, quality and food safety
Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs through effective management of equipment and engineering resources
Provide a visible presence in production daily to guide, coach, monitor and control the issues and activities and be accessible to all
Communicate effectively with all the team, not just “Send and Forget” emails
Carry out performance reviews with your team and ensure training is done where needed
Proactively looking for areas of improvement and adopting techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production
Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the factory
Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend to the issues as and when they happen. The daily site walk must deliver a clean, tidy site all over
Ensure that you are the focal point for the team
Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values
To ensure the use of other group resources to ensure synergies are carried through, driving knowledge and issues to be shared
Briefing & de-briefing the team on daily basis
Engineering stock is accurate and is kept at a controlled value, at the same time ensuring critical spares are available
Risk assessment of all critical spares
Know what has been used and ordered daily
Create links with other sites where it is feasible to not duplicate stores stock
Ensure redundant stock does not build up
Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose, that it evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance
Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans
Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace
Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around
Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all times
Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures in order that you and any other persons using the area of work can do so safely
Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability
Evaluate all tasks against cost, time and quality for internal or external completion
Detailed supplier specifications completed for all equipment projects, more upfront detail results in less work later
Close management of time scales, costs and deliverables maintained to ensure all projects meet expectations, are on time and within budget
Treat all spends as if they are your own
Manage cost daily
Accountable for all departmental spends
To manage, monitor and control costs to ensure that site costs are within budgeted requirements
Down time
Balance between planned & reactive
Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues due machinery
Waste driven by poor equipment performance
Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met
Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels
Direct Team to receive a performance review
Training and development plans in place for all team, producing measurable business benefits
Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented
Reduction in accidents and incidents on a YOY basis
An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI’s
Projects delivered on time within budget
Drive actions from quality benchmarking
All site process and equipment
Break down interventions, maintenance and improvements
Production Targets
Engineering budget
Health & Safety
Team management
Training and development of the team
Impeccable hygiene standards always
Qualification
Required
Effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation
Ability to achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime
Knowledge and understanding of requirements in engineering management
Attention to detail and providing teams with inspiration, guidance, motivation, training and multi-skilling
Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery
Keep informed and updated of any changes to the production plan
Drive the team to proactively look for issues
Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs
Ensure the engineering team attends breakdowns promptly
Ensure effective hand-over within the team
Create a 'one person for one job' policy unless the job requires more or for training
Ensure all areas are operating under discipline and maintain a clean workplace
Drive the production process to ensure products meet customer specifications, quality and food safety
Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs
Provide a visible presence in production to guide, coach, monitor and control issues
Communicate effectively with all team members
Carry out performance reviews with the team and ensure training is done where needed
Proactively look for areas of improvement
Ensure health and safety requirements are fully met
Conduct daily site walks to ensure cleanliness and organization
Represent The Froneri Way of working through behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values
Ensure engineering stock is accurate and controlled
Conduct risk assessments of all critical spares
Manage maintenance tasks adhering to food safety policies
Keep full and up to date records of all equipment
Evaluate all tasks against cost, time and quality for project completion
Manage departmental spends and ensure costs are within budgeted requirements
Achieve measurable outcomes such as downtime, production targets, and quality initiatives
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Paid parental leave
401K plan with employer match and annual contribution available
Company
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is a manufacturer of ice cream products.
Founded in 1928
1001-5000 employees
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