Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Description

TITLE: Engineering & Maintenance Manager

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. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

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 every day.

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, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

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.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact. 

From your PASSION to ours

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. This position requires the individual to demonstrate excellent team building, people management, and leadership skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills, including face to face, written, and presentation, and excellent external and internal functional / cross-functional communications skills.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

• Key responsibilities for this position include:
• 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 it’s 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
• This job description is not an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements, but a general description of the job.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• 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, focused in the individual’s area of responsibility.
• 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.