Mgr, Maintenance

Please note that as of November 1, 2024, Grain & Protein is not part of AGCO and now operates as a separate business under a new ownership. However, for your convenience, Grain & Protein’s career opportunities will continue to be accessible through AGCO's career site until further notice. We appreciate your understanding during this transition period and look forward to your application. For your convenience, the press release can be found here: AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF AGCO'S GRAIN & PROTEIN BUSINESS

Grain and Protein Technologies is a global organization with nearly 4,000 employees who develop technological solutions for farmers. Through products such as silos, grain drying and moving equipment, and connected controllers to improve animal welfare, the company’s mission is to provide smart solutions to ensure sustainable agriculture.

GSI is seeking a talented, passionate, and highly motivated professional to join the team as a Maintenance Manager. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the safe and cost-effective maintenance, repair and/or replacement of plant equipment, systems, and ensuring maximum production quantity and quality while supporting the policies, goals, and objectives of the company.  Develops and drives TPM objectives throughout the plant to optimize production efficiencies and has implementation and management responsibilities for LOTO for the plant. You will work onsite at our Assumption, IL facility.

Your Impact

• Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
• Oversees and maintain repairs maintenance shop equipment and facilities.
• Establishes and maintains a computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related problems.
• Ensures that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates regularly with all maintenance technicians, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
• Maintains and updates operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Ensures that all maintenance technicians are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures.
• Monitors operation of plant equipment, systems. Initiates and carries out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs utilizing the current continuous improvement system within the plant.
• Tracks, analyzes, and improves key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
• Participate in objective setting, plan development and performance review of plant performance.
• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance technicians.
• Communicates directly with the operations department to coordinate maintenance and repair work in process areas.
• Implements programs and procedures required to ensure plant cleanliness and 5S compliance plant-wide and within own department.
• Assists with site capital planning and implementing plant improvements and expansions.
• Report all near-misses, incidents, injuries, illnesses, including mobile equipment or property damage.

Your Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Prefer LEAN certification with working knowledge of implementing lean in a maintenance organization or within a manufacturing plant.
• Working knowledge of the mechanical and electrical aspects of plant-based maintenance; skilled in TPM and Reliability Engineering are preferred.
• Extensive experience with repairs and maintenance of manufacturing equipment in a steel fabrication environment as well as the management and maintenance of the plant systems and physical facilities.

Your Benefits

• Attractive, fair remuneration including participation in our bonus scheme
• Balance of work, family and free time due to flexible working time and the possibility of remote work within the organizational framework
• Health and life insurance

Your Workplace

You will be working onsite at our Assumption, IL facility to team up with your wonderful GSI team members!   

We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!

Grain & Protein Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.