Maintenance Superintendent

Job Description

Job Description

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We're eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef's offerings.

The Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for hands-on, day to day preventative and corrective maintenance for all Home Chef equipment.

Detailed Responsibilities

Operational Efficiency:

• Oversee and coordinate the daily operations of the maintenance department.
• Monitor equipment and systems to ensure efficiency and functionality. Lead projects in coordination with all plant departments to maximize utilization of automation / equipment to improve overall efficiencies.
• Liaise with other departments and external contractors or vendors.
• Manages the CMMS and ensures work orders are closed in a timely manner. Plan, schedule, and manage maintenance activities to ensure minimal disruption to operations.
• Prioritizes emergency as well as planned work orders to keep operations running and the equipment running reliably

Project Management:

• Manage budgets, forecast costs, and ensure the department operates within financial constraints.
• Prepare maintenance reports and other documentation as required.
• Develops Preventative Maintenance tasks to keep equipment reliable for all existing and future equipment
• Manages spare parts inventory for all equipment and maintenance needs
• Conducts trends of work orders to understand which assets are bad actors
• Acts as site point of contact for all capital improvement work and helps manage project progress when corporate project manager is not on site

Training, Planning & Execution:

• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations from team members and contractors
• Trains all maintenance team members on how to complete PMs
• Assists CI Manager with overall training and development of members of the CI team
• Plans day to day maintenance activities for the maintenance team and contractors
• Ensures all planned work is executed for the maintenance team and contractors
• Ensures all emergency work is prioritized and completed to prevent impact to operations

Food & Employee Safety:

• Ensures all equipment that is worked on is released to sanitation before returning to the operations team
• Ensures all maintenance team members are trained and retrained on safe work practices (LOTO, elevated work, hot work, confined space, line breaks)
• Enforces safety standards and safe work practices for all Home Chef employees and contractors working on site.

SOPs & Audits

• Ensures maintenance SOPs are developed and maintained up to date
• Ensures documentation on all maintenance tasks are compliant with Food Safety best practices to ensure we are audit ready

Communication & Leadership

• Communicates with other plant leaders on required maintenance work that could impact operations or put team members at risk
• Communicates expectations to the maintenance team and leads by example

Coaching & Development:

• Coaches maintenance team members on a daily basis
• Coaches operations team on the work order process to ensure work is getting resolved in a timely manner

KPI Management:

• Manages work order completion on a daily basis
• Manages equipment uptime and reliability to minimize production impact

This position requires 0% travel.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience (food/controlled environments preferred) with a proven track record of leading teams and managing high-level scheduling.
• Proficient in CMMS and MS Excel to analyze data trends, manage maintenance metrics, and drive strategic operational decisions.
• Expert knowledge of PLC, servo, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems, including industrial electronics, AC/DC controls, and schematic interpretation.
• Ability to be on-call and respond to facility needs after hours and/or during weekends
• Active safety leader with OSHA certifications (PIT/Scissor Lift) and oversight experience in LOTO, Hot Work, Confined Space, and Line Break protocols.
• General high school degree, or equivalent, (e.g. GED). Associate's degree, bachelor's degree or technical degree preferred.

Perks and benefits

• Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
• 401k program
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.

We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.

We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.

We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you'll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.

We welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at View email address on ziprecruiter.com.

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