Maintenance Manager
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Job Location: Memphis, TN

Summary:

The Hershey Company Memphis plant is a Non-Union plant producing products such as Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, and Good & Plenty, in a high-speed complex environment.

The Maintenance Manager serves as the operational reliability maintenance performance leader to ensure asset reliability, function, and life. The role is responsible for strategic planning, budget control, work management, and overall performance of the reliability maintenance organization.

The role works closely with various teams to support the formation of value-added equipment care and preservation methods and practices that improve safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and costs.

This position is primarily a day shift role; however, the plant maintenance manager must be flexible with regards to their shift start and end times. They must also be able to work off-shifts and weekends as well as attend meetings during off-shift hours as necessary to support the plant and manage the maintenance function.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the continuous improvement of the reliability maintenance team by identifying opportunities in such areas as staff training and development, organizational design efficiency, loss elimination and reliability preservation.
• Foster or drive a reliability-centric culture mindset of asset preservation, loss elimination, uptime optimization and continuous improvement.
• Manage employee maintenance functions and personnel as well as service and installations by outside contractors.
• Maintain an integrated partnership with the corporate technical community.
• Provide leadership, technical support, and in-depth maintenance systems knowledge to ensure plant asset health is maintained in as-designed condition. This includes hands on and theoretical support of operations and technical staff members, immersion and understanding of methods and practices in reliability maintenance, equipment preservation, equipment repair, root cause analysis, condition monitoring and loss prevention.
• Anchor strategies in reliability fundamentals that develop improved technician competencies, increase equipment availability and lower maintenance costs.
• Integrate and participate in the Reliability community by sharing information from other locations such as best practices, technical and operational data, root cause of failure identification, and performance metrics.
• Lead the safe execution of maintenance work and safety of the maintenance team, ensuring strict compliance with the site's lockout policy.
• Oversee the site's Mechatronics and apprenticeship programs
• Actively support cross-functional activity within the plant to eliminate silos (operations, safety, quality, maintenance) that block collaboration and buy-in.
• Actively support the proliferation of Autonomous Maintenance throughout the plant with full-time maintenance support of AM teams and by training production employees to the fullest extent possible
• Develop strategies to align maintenance goals to achieve reliability excellence.
• Track and publish maintenance and reliability metrics corresponding to the position's responsibilities.
• Align work processes and resources to deliver improved maintenance metrics that translate into increased equipment uptime and OEE.
• Monitor the storeroom inventory and manage the third-party storeroom vendor service.
• Ensure proper utilization of SAP-PM.
• Manage the multi-million-dollar annual maintenance budget preparation for repair operations, training and development, services, and materials.
• Leadership of the site's approximate 50 maintenance team members including:
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Supervisors
  • Reliability Leads
  • Storeroom Supervisor
  • Hourly Mechanics, Electricians, and Storeroom team

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

• Ability to establish and sustain effective relationships with all stakeholders to foster an environment where innovation and cooperation are used to solve problems. Ability to build relationships with various functional and business leaders to drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to communicate best practice reliability methods, insuring team focus is on implementing agreed-upon methods. Challenge peers, team members and customers to accept and apply new approaches, technologies and/or processes and facilitates teams to drive cost efficiencies and add economic value.
• Extensive knowledge of reliability technologies, practices, measurements, and methods including root cause analysis, life cycle costing, Failure Analysis, RCM, Six Sigma, predictive sciences, and condition monitoring
• Lean manufacturing tools - 5s, value stream mapping, process centerlining, standard work, 4 M's, Kaizen, etc.
• Knowledge of GMP's
• Capability of managing multiple priorities with minimal oversight, working as a single entity with the ability to influence others to gain alignment.
• Demonstrated understanding of technology including complexities of products, machinery, and costs
• Capital Project administration/project management processes and techniques
• Workload prioritization
• Risk Assessment
• Product and vendor evaluation
• Engineering fundamentals (Mechanical, Electrical, Utilities, Packaging & Process)
• Ergonomic design
• Construction practices
• Regulatory/code/standards compliance

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

• B.S. in Engineering preferred (Mechanical or Electrical discipline is also preferred)
• Certified Reliability Engineer or Maintenance Reliability Professional is a plus
• 5+ years of experience supervising/managing people required
• 5+ years of manufacturing experience required; 10 years of maintenance/technical/manufacturing experience overall preferred
• Significant experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System(s) required (SAP preferred)
• Manufacturing experience in a high-speed Consumer Goods environment (e.g., production of food, beverages, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, household goods) preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications required (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook)

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans

If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact the HR Service Center (askhr@hersheys.com).