Dairy Farmers of America

Responsible for capital and expense projects and management of maintenance department. Coordinates engineering projects with plant, management and contractors. Responsibilities to include but not limited to include oversight of project engineering, project design, and project installation up to and through startup of a project.

Maintenance department responsibilities to include but not limited to the management of maintenance supervision and all maintenance employees, preventative maintenance, daily operational maintenance and manage inventory of parts and supplies.

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate facility project engineering objectives as it relates to architectural design concepts in accordance with company plans
- Manage departmental labor, repairs and maintenance expenses and outside contractor services
- Facilitate, through expansion, equipment and facility design or renovation, company goals and objectives of capacity, productivity and efficiency
- Develop, organize and maintain engineering specifications/standards and process equipment operational parameters to ensure process stability while maximizing yield, productivity and efficiencies
- Provide guidance and support to maintain facility operating systems to achieve optimum manufacturing process efficiencies in the most cost effective manner.
- Continually strive to reduce facility and manufacturing operating costs by providing best option technical solutions and/or utilizing best method analyses towards improving internal systems.
- General management of entire engineering portfolio.
- Drive sustainability, ARM (Asset Reliability Model) and Team member development initiatives.