Engineering & Maintenance Manager role at Lactalis American Group
REPORTS TO: Plant Director
LOCATION: Walton, New York
Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career? At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive.
Job Type: Full-time
TITLE:
Engineering & Maintenance Manager
DESCRIPTION:
Lactalis is the world leader in dairy—a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.
In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Break stone’s cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk.
At Lactalis, we live by our core values—
Ambition
, Engagement
, and Simplicity
. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.
The Engineering & Maintenance Manager will be responsible for working with the Maintenance and Engineering Teams in developing, managing, and leading a world-class maintenance organization for maintaining the Company's long-term competitiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Implement and control the maintenance budget, including for capital expenditures.
- Responsible for preventive maintenance program, verification of work order completion, and management of maintenance technician’s time on shift.
- Responsible for ensuring repairs are completed, defect tag program is maintained, stockroom is sufficiently maintained at levels necessary.
- Responsible for the environmental compliance of the plant’s equipment and environmental systems.
- Responsible for the direction and management of the maintenance department and its resources.
- Responsible for sound communication between the maintenance team and the engineering team, and with all internal customers to ensure a strong support system exists.
- Responsible for ensuring adequate training of maintenance team, conducting performance evaluations, and managing discipline.
- May be required to travel for training and meetings.
Requirements:
- Must have a sufficiently broad background including but not limited to establishing and maintaining budgets, maintenance management strategies and philosophies, packaging and processing equipment, maintenance systems, equipment installation and start-ups, plant facility and utility equipment.
- Experience working with vendors.
- Strong interpersonal and team skills to function as a team member and leader.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- 7+ years supervisory or managerial experience required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.
Salary
Description:
$110,000 - $140,000.
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