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Maintenance and Reliability Manager

McCormick & Company
Peterborough
4 months ago
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This position is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and functional expertise to the McCormick Peterborough Plant for its asset management strategy. This position leads a Planned Maintenance (PM) strategy focused on building Employee capability and driving Employee engagement through implementation of high-performance work systems to achieve exceptional business results.

 

 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES#LI-DNI

  • Support the creation of and execute the delivery of the site PM Pillar Plan and Strategy in line with Journey to Excellence (JTE, McCormick term for Continuous Improvement) Masterplan.
  • Lead and support Plant PM assessments, audits, and training. 
  • Connect Plant, CI and Maintenance Leaders to PM methodology and progress.
  • Ensure the optimal technology (e.g. CMMS) is deployed to create visibility of Maintenance losses.
  • Implement the site PM Pillar and participate in the Regional PM Pillar.
  • Own and deploy standards and training materials for various PM systems, tools and processes (e.g. Breakdown Elimination, Planning and Scheduling and Equipment Ranking, mechanical and electrical components)
  • Create linkage between PM and other pillars (e.g. Autonomous Maintenance Step 3 and 4 standards and Training and Development skills matrix)
  • Own PM KPIs including Maintenance Cost, Storeroom Inventory, and Breakdowns
  • Ensure an effective yearly maintenance plan is scheduled and delivered.
  • Ensure correct and sufficient information is gathered for Life cycle costing (LCC).
  • Ensure the quality control and alignment on all facilities maintenance related tasks via service providers.
  • Coach and/or lead employee’s activities to build PM capability in Operations and Maintenance.
  • Understand Maintenance losses and lead Maintenance savings projects across the site.
  • Recommend and provide support for Maintenance Org Design at a Site, Dept, Line and Shift level.
  • Drive the development of maintenance training needs analyses and matrix, and ensure training is delivered in line with it.
  • Build a Mechanical and Electrical succession plan.
  • Strategic workforce planning of Maintenance team to understand future skills profiles required.
  • Support Process and  Project engineers as directed by the site Engineering Lead

 

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE

  • Engineering qualification to Higher National Certificate/BTEC Level 4 (or equivalent) as a minimum.  
  • Solid electro-mechanical-automation background in manufacturing environment (FMCG, aerospace or automotive preferably).
  • Experience and fluency in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) and PM practices. 
  • Experience in Food Processing preferred, but not required.
  • Team and Operations Leadership experience - ability to proactively lead and coach teams to solve problems, multi-task and deliver continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ability to exercise good judgment in high pressure, sensitive situations.
  • Ability and willingness to work flexible hours and days as needed to meet business demands.
  • Ability to rapidly change and adapt in response to market, customer, or strategy.

Agencies:McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

 

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

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