Maintenance Director

We are seeking a highly skilled Maintenance Director to lead our maintenance team in a protein conversion facility. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical or electrical engineering and experience in managing maintenance personnel.

• Project Management: Successfully execute all site projects within desired budget, timelines, and quality parameters.
• Leadership and Communication: Communicate and promote the business strategy, motivate and ensure the team's commitment to achieving the organization's business goals.
• Regulatory Compliance: Understand and be knowledgeable of all local, state, and federal laws and regulations, including OSHA, FSIS, and Environmental Protection Agency to ensure environmental, health, and safety processes are executed and in compliance.
• Data Analysis: Analyze data trends to help guide decision-making at a senior level.
• Maintenance Planning: Estimate the labor required to perform maintenance tasks, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Technical Expertise: Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, written and/or verbal form and work with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with senior management, contractors, vendors, and suppliers to support maintenance and engineering projects.
• Process Improvement: Propose, design, and introduce new equipment needed to automate processes within the facility to maximize production and labor efficiencies while improving product quality.

• Strategic Planning: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational and production goals.
• Process Optimization: Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement for the operation.
• Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.
• Complexity Management: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 5 to 10 years of maintenance and engineering experience or similar position in a fresh protein harvest facility.
• Wide and deep management experience providing expert competence over 5 years with demonstrated leadership and people development skills.
• Experience interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long timeframes.
• Strong electrical background (PLC, instrumentation, industrial electrical experience) preferred.
• Demonstrated history of work primarily disciplined in the rendering and animal food sector.