Maintenance Lead - Night Shift

Valley Queen Cheese Factory
US - South Dakota - Revillo
July 3, 2024
General Labor

JOB DESCRIPTIONPosition Summary
This position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain process and production controls and instrumentation equipment. Performs predictive and preventive maintenance on systems and processes to support the achievement of the company's vision, mission and values. Provides leadership to Maintenance Technicians and back up to Maintenance Supervisors.

Essential Functions

Coach, train and provide direction to maintenance staff to ensure assigned work and projects are completed in an acceptable time frame while meeting the quality requirements of the department. (9)
Communicate performance issues and provide performance plan input to the department supervisors. (9)
Perform maintenance related duties (mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic) to install and maintain food processing and production equipment.
Detect, troubleshoot, repair and identify root cause of plant and production equipment issues.
Perform planned, unplanned and preventative repairs of all plant equipment in a Premier manner that contributes to the achievement of planned versus unplanned work order goals.
Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required service.
Perform plant rounds in a highly professional manner always looking to identify any items that need further attention.
Maintain plant utility systems in such a manner that these systems do not cause any production downtime.
Safely operate the plant utility systems during shift (steam, air handling, ammonia, compressed air, electrical, water and sewer).
Understand and adhere to all PSM requirements and be member of the emergency response team and PSM team.
Comply with all company safety rules and follow PPE requirements to achieve no injuries and no lost-time accidents.
Maintain standard records pertaining to daily work requirements in a manner that makes them a reliable data source for safety, quality and regulatory requirements and audits.
Understand and adhere to all GMPs and food safety policies and procedures and perform all work in a manner that ensures the highest standard of food safety and quality.
Attend and/or complete required safety and quality training sessions by the assigned deadlines.

Use tools, spare parts and supplies in responsible manner yielding maximum profitability for VQC while maintaining equipment and facility to the highest possible standard
Ensure 100 percent accuracy when signing out spare parts and any other parts transactions
Respond to all maintenance calls to production areas as a top priority to ensure production time is not lost.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Competencies

Technical Capacity

Problem Solving/Analysis

Communication Proficiency

Computer

Time Management/Initiative

Supervisory Responsibility
This position will provide guidance and direction to maintenance technicians as well as relief supervisory responsibilities, as needed.

Work Environment
This job operates in an office, shop and plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. Exposed to extreme temperature variations. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.

Physical Demands
Please refer to the separate functional job description for this position.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. This position works a rotating 5-2-2-5 schedule from 5:00pm to 5:00am.

Travel
Less than 5 percent travel expected for this position.

Required Education, Experience & Certifications

High school diploma/GED. Associate degree in related technical field or equivalent number of years of maintenance experience. Proficiency in basic computer skills.

Preferred Education, Experience & Certifications

Knowledge of ammonia refrigeration. Desire supervisory experience. Bilingual in English/Spanish.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Minimum age requirement is 18. Must possess or be able to obtain a valid and appropriate state driver's license prior to employment.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of responsibilities, duties or tasks that are required of the employee for this job. Responsibilities, duties and tasks may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay Grade 8-9

5-2-2-5
5:00pm - 5:00am

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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