Americold Logistics, LLC. hiring Manager, Automated Engineering Maintenance in Atlanta, Georgia, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

Job DescriptionPrimary Responsibility :

Improve asset performance, influence maintenance and energy spending to targeted levels, lead site reliability and engineering maintenance strategy in an automated refrigerated controlled warehouse, and support and maintain both People and Food Safety throughout the facility. Work closely with District, Regional, and Global support partners. Act as interface between Operations and Facility Maintenance to ensure that resources are effectively improving asset utilization, uptime, and throughput. Ensure responsive and proactive maintenance support to all internal customers by implementing sound work management processes, and build operational support through furthering cultural maturity of Americold’s Operating Systems.

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership and management for Maintenance Excellence, Energy Excellence, and Refrigeration Excellence ensuring the duties of self and others meet all safety policies and regulations.
• Develop long term vision and strategic planning of the Facility Maintenance & Energy organization at an automated site (Capital Planning & Budgeting).
• Ensure planning and execution of site-wide maintenance and energy activities, capital projects & engineering, project management, maintenance of all assets (refrigeration, Material Handling Equipment, ASRS systems, building & grounds, etc.), and completion of root cause analysis to resolve reliability maintenance issues.
• Direct, coordinate, communicate, and interpret Capital Policy to ensure that projects are thoroughly planned, scheduled, scoped, estimated, staffed and implemented.
• Ensure development of a comprehensive energy plan that addresses energy consumption, defined rate goals, strategies, action plans, conservation plans and utilization effectiveness.
• Ensure planning, scheduling, and execution of planned and predictive maintenance activities as well effective dispersion of resources across shifts.

What Experience And Education You Need

• Bachelor’s degree is REQUIRED. Degrees in engineering, business, and operations management are preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant maintenance leadership experience is REQUIRED. Relevant experience must in Industrial Manufacturing Maintenance & Engineering and/or Industrial Building Maintenance experience.
• Experience leading Failure Mode & Effects Analyses (FMEA), Failure Mode, Effects, & Criticality Analyses (FMECA), or other established Root Cause Analyses (RCA) is REQUIRED.
• Experience implementing/managing Predictive Maintenance technologies (Vibration, Infrared, Ultrasound) is REQUIRED.
• Demonstrated experience with PLCs and automation is REQUIRED.
• Substantial prior experience with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) such as MAXIMO, E-Maint, PeopleSoft is REQUIRED. Experience with SAP is preferred.

What Could Set You Apart

• Must possess strong skills in project management (PMP Certification Preferred).
• Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Requires strong leadership skills and the ability to obtain results through influence and mentoring relationships in order to contribute experience, skills, and wisdom to employees for their development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must have very strong customer service orientation with high sense of urgency in meeting objectives and deadlines.

Physical RequirementsTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential functions for this position and meet the physical requirements needed to perform them. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Work EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What We OfferOur associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.

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About UsAmericold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.