Maintenance Lead Technician - Second Shift

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Lenox, Iowa and often called the "Pearl of the Prairie" is where you can find small town living, focused on family and friends, with big city amenities not far from reach in Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City. Located in southwest Iowa, Taylor county, with a population of around 1400, the Lenox area reaches far beyond the city limits with beautiful and productive fields of corn, beans, and other croplands.

Lenox holds an amazing four day Rodeo every July and is home to a beautiful 36‑9 hole golf course, several fishing and boating lakes, great area hunting, a beautiful city park with swimming pool, and many picnic parks. The MFI location in Lenox produces primarily pre‑cooked egg patties. With its friendly atmosphere, safe environment, and progressive spirit, Lenox is a great place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

This is for a 2nd shift, 6pm‑6am position. We offer competitive wages, bonuses that include relocation, sign on, and annual.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Lead provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Lead will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The Maintenance Lead will partner with the maintenance workflow process team and will ensure that work orders for plant assets are in the CMMS backlog and are being planned and scheduled effectively.

The Maintenance Lead will work with technicians to ensure that scheduled work orders are properly executed, followed through, documented and value of the job is captured and reported. They will promote, execute, mentor and coach excellence in preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The Maintenance Lead will become a resource to the plant who constantly focuses on improving the operating condition of equipment and improving the skill sets and performance of the maintenance team.

This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

• Lead maintenance team members and tasks to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Execute and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met.
• Identify, develop, justify, and implement reliability and performance improvement projects.
• Responsible for identifying, coordinating, and facilitating maintenance and reliability training for team personnel.
• Lead/assist craftsman during maintenance assignments.
• Lead technical troubleshooting tasks while assisting other plant personnel in a teaching environment.
• Execute preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence.
• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
• Keep accurate and up-to-date records (e.g., SAP data, training documentation, etc.).
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset…