Kettle Cuisine

Maintenance Team Lead Night Shift

  • Location:   Everett, WA
  • Position Type:   Full Time

Description Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for the efficient maintenance and continuous improvement of all Kettle Cuisine equipment and facilities ensuring that product quality, employee safety, and food safety standards, as well as regulatory requirements are met or exceeded.

Coordinates employee activity to optimize productivity, supports good manufacturing practices including the proper use of equipment and materials, promotes training and development, and attainment of parts, labor, and expenses budget goals.

Supports adherence to the production schedule developed by the Master Scheduler ensuring the highest levels of customer service and production efficiency by ensuring effective and efficient equipment operation and limited downtime.

Proactively develop equipment specific technical expertise and perform required breakdown, corrective, and preventative maintenance.

Job Duties:

Meets with team members on a regular frequency to ensure team members are informed of company, department, and team initiatives, goals, and objectives.

With other key department personnel, develops maintenance annual and quarterly objectives.

Ensure their team members are working consisted with department mission and objectives. Ensures department metrics and goals are achieved.

Ensure planned maintenance schedule is completed in timely fashion by their team.

Provide input to Maintenance Manager, ARC, and Maintenance Planner / Scheduler as related to maintenance schedule.

Monitors production schedule efficiency, equipment downtime, identifies issues and opportunities for improvement, and reports issues to Maintenance Manager, ARC, and Operation Shift Leads.

Maintain effective line of communication between maintenance and operations.

Provide current and correct information to the operation’s team on maintenance issues that relate to floor production.

Coordinates with ARC regarding on-going team member performance and feedback.

Assures that Employee Job Safety Accountabilities are completed. Identifies compliance issues promptly and reports to appropriate individual.

Completes initial accident investigations and reports on all injuries and accidents promptly and participates in all accident investigations in accordance with the accident investigation policies.

Coordinates equipment change-overs and repairs with line mechanic staff and production staff.

Periodically inspects equipment and reviews operating, safety and change-over procedures.

Implements and conducts training when operating, safety or change-over procedures change.

Serves on cross-functional teams, which may include ZLA, Autonomous Maintenance, Engineering projects, and safety initiatives and to provide input on projects and to identify and implement cost and efficiency improvement activities.

Assists Manager of Engineering / Maintenance and Maintenance Manager in developing annual budget and monthly expense projections.

Research and develop recommendations to impact cost of products sold (COPS) by initiating and managing projects that support positive change and increased efficiencies.

Conducts required inspections, reporting observations and working with other functions as needed to execute improvements.

Reports positive findings as well as deficiencies and records observations and recommends corrective action plans.

Ensures team members adhere to all Maintenance Department policies and procedures.

With QA and Safety, and others as appropriate, assists in execution of action plans related to health and safety and assures the highest levels of compliance.

All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required Qualifications/Education/Skills

High school diploma or equivalent

3+ years of manufacturing experience and lead/supervisory experience

Food manufacturing experience preferred, Or

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Computer skills – basic knowledge of computer programs and ability to learn maintenance management systems (SAP experience a plus)

Forklift Certified or ability to obtain forklift and boom/scissor lift certifications

Ability to obtain respirator, fall protection, and confined space certifications Personal

Qualities/Characteristics/ Mental Activities

Ability to manage task performance of others

Ability to train employees Ability to prioritize and follow-through to achieve results

High level of personal initiative, self-driven, action and results oriented

Thrives in a challenging, innovative atmosphere;

open to change and creating change

Strong communication skills, both oral and written

Excellent interpersonal skills, team player, generates enthusiasm, builds effective working relationships at all levels

Physical Activities Required - The physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Extensive walking and standing

Vision/hearing Talking Repetitive motion (hands/wrists)

Climb and balance

Lifting up to 50 lbs

Job Environment Manufacturing environment – Conditions can be wet and cold

Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends and some holidays

Metrics / Individual Performance Objectives

COPS – Labor, Parts, and Expense Budget

Schedule Adherence Downtime

Safety Metrics

Lost Time Accidents

OSHA Recordables

Safety leadership and training participation

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