Job Description

Senior Manager, Maintenance

About Monogram Foods
A leading food manufacturer, Monogram Foods specializes in delivering your favorite foods and snacks with unparalleled quality and flavor. We specialize in co-manufacturing, private label, and food service solutions, offering a diverse range of products including appetizers, meat snacks, sandwiches, bacon, corn dogs, and baked goods.

Established in 2004 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Monogram Foods has earned recognition as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. With over 4,000 team members across 12 locations in seven states, our unwavering commitment to excellence and passion for quality drives everything we do.

Our dedication extends beyond our products to giving back to local communities. Through the Monogram Foods Loves Kids Foundation, we strive to "make it better" for children and families, embodying our core values and creating lasting, meaningful change. 

Our Culture Is Our Secret Ingredient
At Monogram Foods, we're more than a food company—we're a passionate team dedicated to creating America's most beloved foods and making an impact in the communities where we operate. 

We value the dedication of our team members and are committed to fostering a fun, supportive work environment. We prioritize recognition, well-being, and a strong sense of belonging because we know that when our team is at its best, we can deliver our best to customers. Here you will enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and ample opportunities for growth and advancement. Plus, our inclusive culture—grounded in our company values—celebrates diversity and respects the unique perspectives of our team members. 

So, if you're hungry for a rewarding career, join our team and let's cook up something extraordinary together.

Position Overview:
The Maintenance Senior Manager’s responsibility is to lead maintenance practices across the plant to ensure reliability, maintainability, and availability of all plant production resources (production and facilities) with a specific focus on overall deterioration losses.  Ensuring that people’s safety and food safety come first, this individual is a confident leader with strong technical and communication skills with the ability to engage and build relationships across all teams, including the ability to coach and empower team members to take ownership for driving out losses at all levels. Drive production and buildings and grounds support through tactical and strategic means. Tactically, this will include directing a skilled workforce to effectively troubleshoot and resolve real time production issues. Whether that’s by leading the effort with technical expertise, dispatching staff to resolve, or coordinating repairs with outside contractors. This leader will be adept at making quick, accurate assessments and providing the highest levels of support. Strategically, the Maintenance Senior Manager will succeed by managing multiple initiatives simultaneously to provide long-term solutions that resolve the root cause of process interruptions. The Maintenance Senior Manager position is a key role that interfaces with many internal customers – Safety, Quality, Production, Warehousing, Continuous Improvement, and Engineering.  This position also leads or assists in the execution of plant projects, corporate engineering projects, and manages the maintenance staff.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, coaching and direction to the Maintenance Department in all aspects of their work specifically through Gemba walks, one-on-one coaching and observations.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, and monitors an Asset Maintenance and Reliability Plan that includes:
  • Value-added preventive and predictive maintenance tasks
  • Effectively managed spare parts inventory
  • Fully integrated and utilized CMMS System
  • Proactive Planning and Scheduling processes
  • Standardized maintenance KPIs 
• Lead continued improvement in teammate relations both within department and cross functionally
• Collaborate with other sister sites to solve problems and broadly share learnings
• Champions Safety initiatives through active participation of EHS team and Safety leader of maintenance team.
• Ensure all equipment and the facility infrastructure is operated and remains in strict food safety compliance.
• Supervise direct reports:
  • Facilities and Utilities Engineer
  • Maintenance and Reliability Manager
  • MRO Buyer
  • Maintenance Planner
• Identifies and drives maintenance process improvement opportunities.
• Ability to utilize data analysis in identifying key planned and unplanned losses to direct plants limited resources on top losses. 
• Implement and maintain standards for breakdown elimination, planning & scheduling, lubrication, Predictive Maintenance, maintenance information systems, shop tool/facilities and inventory management. 
• Supports plant and department KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
• Accountable for overall reliability and availability of equipment and control of maintenance labor and expense budget within the plant. 
• Uses failure analysis techniques like FMEA to identify and eliminate chronic problems.
• Develops and implements technician training plan
• Identify Capital needs with respect to production, environmental, safety, building & grounds and be responsible for them from inception to completion. Includes estimating and funds procurements, specifying equipment, working with vendors and outside contractors, supervising safe onsite work, maintaining budget and scheduling with the plant production.

NOTE:  This list presents only the principal duties of the position and is not intended to be comprehensive. The duties and responsibilities listed above may be changed or supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
 

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Education and Experience:

• B.S. in Engineering from an accredit university/college. 
• Minimum of 5-year industrial experiences in a food manufacturing environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems. 
• Computer literate (MS Word, MS Excel, and other appropriate MS Office Suite applications)
• 5+ years of experience with CMMS systems
• Experience with ERP systems, trend analysis and data historian systems
• Experience leading TPM implementation and/or AM (Autonomous Maintenance) and PM (Preventative Maintenance) pillar implementations
• Minimum of 5-year industrial experiences in a food manufacturing or CPG environment with the ability to diagnose mechanical, equipment, electrical, and utilities systems problems. 
• General knowledge of USDA, SQF, BRC, GMP, HACCP, sanitation, quality, and safety programs required. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to handle high stress environment, last minute unexpected change/disruption from planned tasks.

Desired Qualifications

• CMRP, CRL, ARP or other maintenance and reliability certifications
• 7 + years of leadership of teams of at least 5 individuals 
• Black/Green belt in Six Sigma and other continuous improvement tools

Physical Demands:

• Able to lift 50 lbs
• Able to walk, stand or sit for long periods of time
• Work in changing temperature environment (hot or cold)
• Able to work with PPE requirements

NOTE:  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.