Americold Logistics - Mountville, PA
posted 4 months ago
The primary responsibility of the Maintenance Manager is to lead the site maintenance team to proactively maintain all aspects of the facility and automated operations in a manner that focuses on people and food safety. This role is crucial in driving continued improvement in equipment uptime and availability by focusing on People, Processes, and Performance. The Maintenance Manager will provide technical leadership and management for site maintenance personnel, ensuring that all duties meet safety policies and regulations. In addition to overseeing daily operations, the Maintenance Manager will develop a long-term vision and strategic planning for the organization at an automated site, which includes People Development, Capital Planning, and Budgeting. The role requires ensuring the planning and execution of site-wide maintenance and energy activities, capital projects, and engineering, as well as project management and maintenance of all assets, including Refrigeration, Material Handling Equipment, ASRS Systems, and Building & Grounds. The Maintenance Manager will also be responsible for conducting root cause analysis to resolve reliability maintenance issues. The position involves directing, coordinating, communicating, and interpreting Capital Policy to ensure that projects are thoroughly planned, scheduled, scoped, estimated, staffed, and implemented. The Maintenance Manager will develop a comprehensive energy plan that addresses energy consumption, defined rate goals, strategies, action plans, conservation plans, and utilization effectiveness. Furthermore, the role includes planning, scheduling, and executing planned and predictive maintenance activities while effectively dispersing resources across shifts. The Maintenance Manager will design, implement, modify, and improve asset maintenance plans based on failure modes, mean time between failures (MTBF), data analysis, throughput, condition monitoring, and statistics to enhance processes and reduce equipment and process failures. Collaboration with internal resources and local, state, federal, and other agencies is essential to ensure compliance with all standard work practices and regulations. The role also requires preparing annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, justifying spend, and managing an accurate expense and capital budget to achieve financial objectives. In summary, the Maintenance Manager is accountable for talent management, ensuring the appropriate level of technical expertise within the maintenance team, and leading the optimization of resource labor, contracted services, and parts usage. This position is vital for maintaining effective operational throughput and equipment reliability while developing technical staff through Americold's skills matrix and development planning process.