Associate Manager, Maintenance

Lactalis American Group is currently seeking candidates to join our Maintenance team in Belmont, Wisconsin.

Lactalis, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to nurturing the future by providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. We offer an enviable range of dairy brands including Galbani, President, Kraft Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Parmalat, Siggi's, and Stonyfield Organic in addition to several brands imported from our affiliates in Europe.

At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to building a safe, diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.

Lactalis 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.

From your PASSION to ours

This position will be responsible for all daily maintenance functions in support of the plant.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

* Organize the maintenance team's work

* Manage Team: integrate, train, appraise, redefine responsibilities, praise, ensure development and gauge training needs

* Conduct interviews as necessary

* Lead a team: delegate, instill a sense of responsibility, set targets, communicate instructions, control, listen

* Provide reports to management

* Record maintenance data

* Analyze and evaluate maintenance data and determine the negative or positive net effect

* Lead and control various maintenance activities and implement corrective actions

* Propose technical and organizational improvements

* Works with Plant Director, Maintenance Manager, Assistant Plant Director, Project Manager in scheduling maintenance in a manner which maximizes the department's capabilities while meeting the needs of the plant

* Monitors Work orders, PMs, and Expense Budget

* Plan and schedule labor consistent with maintenance requirements

* Apply employee safety rules and ensure they are implemented and followed

* Participate in analyzing occupational hazards and prevent potential risks

* Follow food quality and food safety programs throughout the plant

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

* Technical degree in Maintenance or Engineering discipline or equivalent knowledge and experience

Experience

* 5 years' experience in maintenance in dairy industry and/or food industry preferred

* 3-5 years' experience in a maintenance management/supervisory role

* Maintenance supervision, organizational tools and methods, flow management, environmental safety management, computer/office systems

* Stable and dependable work history is required

Specialized Knowledge

* Agri-food industry technology and processes, sound maintenance practice, quality, food safety, and health and safety

Skills/Abilities

* The ideal candidate will be proactive and dynamic, flexible and receptive to new ideas, down to earth and pragmatic, analytical and attentive to detail. He or she will also be capable of working independently in adherence to regulations, of managing stress and remaining calm under pressure, and be able to demonstrate an inquiring mind and well-developed observational skills. Will demonstrate a sense of responsibility and high professional standards, honesty and integrity, and objectivity.