Maintenance Lead

Description

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Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. 

From your PASSION to ours 

Midwest Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Maintenance Lead based in Murfreesboro, TN.

The Maintenance Lead provides safety and servant-based leadership to achieve breakthrough production results on their line/ system. The Maintenance Lead is responsible for building capability in Operating Teams and Equipment Owners. The Maintenance Lead works to eliminate losses following a rigorous daily process that is data driven and focused on root cause elimination. The Maintenance Lead is accountable to improve the reliability of the system through ownership in defect handling, breakdown elimination and planning and scheduling. This position leverages the process discipline of continuous improvement tools.

The Maintenance Lead is the Planned Maintenance (PM) System owner for their lines. The Maintenance Lead will build capability in the Process Lead and Line Lead roles and must be able to cover their responsibilities in their short-term absence.

From your EXPERTISE to our

Key responsibilities for this position include:

Leadership

• Build capability of the line team and technicians to understand their equipment at component level in addition to identifying and resolving defects and improving asset life.
• Analysis of equipment performance and improving component life.
• Leads portions of the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly DDS meetings, including:
• Daily reporting and prioritization of defects found/ fixed as well as total backlog
• Daily reporting of breakdowns as well as initiation and execution of Breakdown Elimination
• Contribute to development and execution of the plan for the day
• Weekly BE dice chart overview and development of line team and technicians through sharing and educating BE learnings
• Weekly tracking and reporting of maintenance measurement data - Backlog, MTTC, PM Completion (Indicators of health of P&S system)
• Identifies and address safety risks related to maintenance activities (standard and non-standard) and prioritizing safety risks identified through DH. Includes maintenance work completed during planned stops.
• Deliver spring plan M/R Costs for the Line (Materials, Services, OT).
• Direct people leadership may be part of the role expectations depending on the organizational structure.

Foundational Systems

• Maximo data integrity and adherence to Maximo standards (or local Computer Maintenance Management System)
• Health of DH system: Leads documentation of standards, and coaches the Line Team and technicians through the identification, prioritization, and resolution of defects.
• Breakdown Elimination: Identification of triggers, tracking of BE’s through dice chart, ensuring completion of BE’s and implementation of countermeasures.
• Planning & Scheduling: Plans, schedules, and assigns all work (CM and PM) for the line prioritizing as it relates to addressing top stops/ losses. Including shutdown planning.
• Loss Elimination
• Supports development and leads execution of 90-Day improvement plan to deliver glidepath through loss elimination.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Achieves technical mastery of equipment and develops it in others
• Good understanding of mechanical processes, both hands on and theory
• Practical knowledge of Maximo (or local Computer Maintenance Management System) and Planning & Scheduling
• Understanding of maintenance and reliability performance metrics
• Demonstrated skills in servant leadership, problem-solving, coaching, and training

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.