Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Provide leadership and supervision for maintenance activities supporting both the Sioux Falls and Brookings facilities.
- Ensure both sites meet applicable GRMS, OSHA, LOTO, EPA, food safety, and internal safety requirements.
- Lead and support the Progressive Maintenance Pillar and maintenance reliability systems to drive toward zero breakdowns and reduced maintenance costs.
- Maintain department budgets and ensure maintenance projects stay within approved budget parameters.
- Support reliable plant operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving equipment, utilities, processes, and maintenance systems.
- Partner with Operations, Quality, Safety, Engineering, and site leadership to resolve equipment issues and reduce operational disruptions.
- Develop, maintain, and execute preventive maintenance, shutdown, and master maintenance plans for both sites.
- Prioritize work orders, equipment needs, maintenance schedules, and urgent repairs based on business impact, safety, quality, and production needs.
- Provide timely planning and execution support for Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and General maintenance work orders.
- Conduct and facilitate root cause failure analysis for equipment failures that impact production, quality, safety, or reliability.
- Maintain accurate equipment history, maintenance records, and documentation in usable maintenance systems or libraries.
- Lead, coach, and develop maintenance employees to build technical skills, ownership, accountability, and future leadership capability.
- Support the development and execution of training plans, standard work, and technical procedures for maintenance employees.
- Participate in the development, design, review, and execution of capital projects, CERs, equipment upgrades, and plant improvement initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, improve safety, and lower maintenance costs across both locations.
- Ensure maintenance tools, parts, documentation, and systems are organized and available to support timely execution of work.
- Provide leadership presence and support across both Sioux Falls and Brookings, including regular travel between sites as business needs require.
- Communicate clearly with site leaders regarding maintenance priorities, risks, resource needs, project status, and equipment reliability concerns.
- Promote a zero-loss mindset by identifying and addressing recurring maintenance issues, process gaps, and equipment performance concerns.
- Lead management-style support that fosters accountability, teamwork, safety, and strong work ethic across the maintenance function.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Support cross-site standardization of maintenance processes, expectations, documentation, and best practices.
- Provide technical and leadership support during audits, inspections, shutdowns, emergency repairs, and special projects.
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental, site, and company goals.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree, technical degree, or equivalent education and experience required.
- Minimum of one year of related maintenance, operations, technical, or training experience required.
- Prior leadership experience preferred.
- Strong mechanical, technical, troubleshooting, and equipment reliability knowledge.
- Ability to lead maintenance teams across multiple locations.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical manuals, procedures, safety standards, governmental regulations, and business documents.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, procedures, and maintenance-related documentation.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, employees, vendors, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, or written form.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects, and delegate assignments effectively.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability, statistical inference, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions.
- Ability to apply technical and practical problem-solving skills to plant maintenance situations.
- Ability to comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures.
- Ability to report unsafe activities, conditions, or behaviors to the appropriate leader or Human Resources.
- Ability to provide leadership through example, coaching, knowledge sharing, and consistent follow-through.
- Ability to travel regularly between Sioux Falls, SD and Brookings, SD based on business needs.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- staff discounts
- generous family leave policy
- health & dental plan
- 401K