Precision Maintenance Champion - Predictive Maintenance SME

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.

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

Precision Maintenance Champion provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Reliability SME 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. This position will work closely with the operations, engineering, and maintenance departments to ensure that a troubled equipment/component list is created, maintained, tracked, and communicated to the whole plant organization.

The Reliability SME will become a part of the manufacturing work system team and will ensure that work orders for these assets are in the backlog and planned well. Reliability SME will work from this backlog to ensure that jobs are considered for the schedule every week. Reliability SME will work with technicians to ensure that these improvement projects are properly executed, followed through, documented and the value of the job is captured and reported to all levels of the plant organization.

The Reliability SME will report weekly and monthly to plant leadership team on progress made and upcoming opportunities to improve. They will promote mentor and coach precision maintenance practices and will lead the facility’s lubrication improvement program. Reliability SME will become a resource to the plant who constantly focuses on improving the life of troubled 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 reliability 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.
• Develop, implement, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met.
• Identify, develop, justify, and implement reliability and performance improvement projects.
• Work with Corporate Reliability Team to develop, implement, and review real time condition assessment data for all critical equipment.
• Responsible for identifying, coordinating, and facilitating reliability training for maintenance personnel.
• Develop and implement quality assurance and reliability procedures for critical spares and parts.
• Develop and implement quality commissioning procedures for rebuilt or new equipment.
• Work with vendors in addressing issues identified through root cause and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Lead / assist craftsman during precision assignments.
• 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.
• Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e., SAP data, PdM, Precision Documentation etc.).
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
• Promote, and foster…