Team Leader Maintenance

Leader Maintenance                 Location: Park Rapids, MN                 Job Requisition ID: Req-271803                 Time Type: Full time                 About Lamb Weston You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.  A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together. If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Summary                 Responsible to eliminate all causes of failure and ensure full useful life in coordination with daily maintenance completed by operating personnel. Leads activities of workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment. Provides technical and problem solving support for the plant and maintenance crews. Supports and executes plant specific maintenance strategies to achieve Plant's key performance goals for overall maintenance performance. Assures production schedules are met and all issues are resolved and communicated in a timely fashion. Inspects operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards. Reviews production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities. 3 years related experience.

Oversees all aspects of the maintenance department, production lines and affiliated equipment, building and grounds.  Schedule work and manpower to meet production demands., maintain the preventative maintenance system and work toward meeting or exceeding the plants safety and uptime goals.  Control maintenance expenses by monitoring overtime and parts expenses weekly. Establish and maintain mechanical integrity and equipment reliability programs to ensure employee safety provide environmental security and maximize the plant’s availability, product quality, and cost effectiveness. Other primary duties include: ownership of the plant’s PM/PdM activities; leadership of equipment performance tracking and repair/improvement prioritization; technical guidance and coaching of mechanical craftsmen; and engineering support of maintenance and capital projects.

Responsibilities Plan and schedule work force efficiently for utilization of employees. Monitor downtime occurrences to maintain consistent operations. Monitor the efficiencies of the production lines, paying special attention for maintenance and mechanical trends. Train, motivate and direct employees to adhere to safe work methods and standard procedures to ensure efficient utilization of employees. Promote teamwork to achieve Company's goals and objectives Maintain a cooperative working relationship with USDA officials Control labor costs Purchase of supplies and repair parts with regard to quality Control departmental overtime Monitor the machinery and equipment to ensure safety of the employees Enforce the plant's safety program. Compliance to all OSHA safety regulations and standards Maintaining equipment for efficient operation within maintenance budget; operating within the constraint of the union contract and USDA regulations Seeks continuous improvement in the Maintenance Department employees and the efficiencies of the production lines. Assumes full ownership of predictive and preventive maintenance activities including oil analysis,