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Manager, Technical Services - Crisco (Information Technology)



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This position provides technical leadership and support for the plant.  This position leads plant engineering (including facility management and utility cost savings) and provides leadership for the maintenance department to safely achieve and improve equipment efficiencies.  This position is responsible for capital planning, coordination and implementation.  In addition, this position provides safety and environmental technical support including regulatory compliance and service requirements.

Essential Duties:

  • Provides planning, direction, and coordination for all technical activities while achieving optimum use of workers, equipment, materials, and facilities
  • Provides direct technical support or coordinates technical services to ensure line efficiencies, safety and environmental requirements are met
  • Ensures preventative and predictive maintenance tasks and schedules are developed and followed for all relevant equipment
  • Ensures equipment parts are stocked and maintained to support equipment repairs and preventative services
  • Coordinates or provides technical training to technical staff including developing machine specific technical instructions
  • Prepares and controls department annual expense budget, forecasts operating costs of department, and reporting of department budget results monthly
  • Supports and initiates cost reduction activity
  • Develops capital plan working with plant stakeholders and corporate engineering
  • Develops plans and establishes engineering schedules to meet or exceed plan
  • Administers personnel functions including interviewing, hiring, performance evaluations, coaching and administering disciplinary action when required
  • Manage personnel who are responsible for the storeroom, facility, utility cost savings, MES, and Power & Controls
  • Leads sustainability tracking for Cincinnati site

Specialized Training/Certification:

  • Maintenance Planning & Scheduling preferred
  • Lean/Six Sigma & HACCP Certified preferred

Additional information:

  • Management/Leadership experience in high speed food processing/packaging
  • Drive for results, challenge of status quo and independent thinker
  • Project Management
  • Direct experience leading technical employees

Skills and Abilities:

  • Excellent communication skills and ability to lead and participate in cross functional teams
  • Detail oriented, analytical and well organized
  • Ability to develop, control and report on project management activities
  • Experience in scheduling planned maintenance activities
  • Proven electrical and mechanical skills
  • PLC knowledge and experience is preferred
  • Ability to develop, control and report on department budgets
  • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint)
  • AutoCAD

Financial Accountability:

  • Prepares and controls department annual expense and capital budgets, forecasts costs of department/capital, and reporting results monthly

Organizational Relationships:

  • Food Safety, Quality, Occupation Health & Safety, Maintenance, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Distribution Center, Inventory Control, Accounting, Vendors/Supplies, Customers, other B&G corporate departments

Supervisory/Functional Management Requirements:

  • Manages more than one function with supervisory and budget responsibilities
  • Directly supervises 7 employees and indirectly 18 employees

Equal Employment Opportunity:
B&G Foods is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please see www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf.
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