Manager Maintenance

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe? At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly. We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it. Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you. Main Purpose of the job: Effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation. To consistently achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime, through effective management and upkeep of the processes, teams and equipment, to ensure that we achieve customer service level with our customers, through the manufacture of products to the right quality and specification. Covering all aspects of food safety. This will be achieved by ensuring that engineering teams are effectively coordinated and managed, through having a clear knowledge and understanding of requirements, attention to detail and providing all teams with inspiration, guidance, motivation, training and multi-skilling. Job Description

ROLE AND ACTIVITY

Site Engineering and Dept

• Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery.
• Production Plan, kept informed and updated of any changes to this plan in

order to plan your team’s daily work and equipment readiness enables plan completion, ensure all machinery is available for production when required * Drive the team to look for issues, and not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task

• Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs.
• Keep a full library of machine manuals, along with support mechanisms linked

to site or group resources when information and support is required

• Ensure the engineering team attend breakdowns promptly
• Ensure effective hand-over within your team making sure they are held

accountable for what they do. * Create a “one person for one job” policy unless the job requires more or for training; never compromise safety. * Ensure all areas are operating under discipline, the workplace, workshop and stores are clean, organized and tidy by maintaining a clean as you go policy in all areas * Drive the production process to ensure that the products produced meet customer specifications, quality and food safety. * Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs through effective management of equipment and engineering resources * Provide a visible presence in production daily to guide, coach, monitor and control the issues and activities and be accessible to all.

• Communicate effectively with all the team, not just “Send and Forget” emails.
• Carry out performance reviews with your team and ensure training is done

where needed. * Proactively looking for areas of improvement and adopting techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production * Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the factory * Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend to the issues as and when they happen. The daily site walk must deliver a clean, tidy site all over.

• Ensure that you are the focal point for the team.
• Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and

characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values * To ensure the use of other group resources to ensure synergies are carried through, driving knowledge and issues to be shared. * Briefing & de-briefing the team on daily basis. Stores * Engineering stock is accurate and is kept at a controlled value, at the same time ensuring critical spares are available

• Risk assessment of all critical spares
• Know what has been used and ordered daily
• Create links with other sites where it is feasible to not duplicate stores

stock * Ensure redundant stock does not build up Maintenance Tasks * Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose, that it evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance * Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans * Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace

• Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around.
• Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all

times. * Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures in order that you and any other persons using the area of work can do so safely. * Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability Projects * Evaluate all tasks against cost, time and quality for internal or external completion * Detailed supplier specifications completed for all equipment projects, more upfront detail results in less work later * Close management of time scales, costs and deliverables maintained to ensure all projects meet expectations, are on time and within budget Budget

• Treat all spends as if they are your own
• Manage cost daily
• Accountable for all departmental spends
• To manage, monitor and control costs to ensure that site costs are within

budgeted requirements Measurable Outcomes

• Down time
• Balance between planned & reactive
• Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues due machinery
• Waste driven by poor equipment performance
• Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met
• Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels
• Direct Team to receive a performance review
• Training and development plans in place for all team, producing measurable

business benefits

• Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented
• Reduction in accidents and incidents on a YOY basis
• An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI’s
• Projects delivered on time within budget
• Drive actions from quality benchmarking

Levels Of Responsibility

• All site process and equipment.
• Break down interventions, maintenance and improvements
• Production Targets
• Engineering budget
• Health & Safety
• Team management
• Training and development of the team
• Impeccable hygiene standards always

BEHAVIORS AND CORE VALUES: Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values. We Take Ownership

• Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish
• Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail
• Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or

reduce waste We Do What Is Right * Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations * Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment * Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies We Seek to Improve

• Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations
• Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we

can improve * Learn from both successes and failures We Are Better Together

• Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business
• Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives
• Treat everyone with fairness and respect

The pay scale for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The pay range for prospective employees in this role is between $145,000 and $153,000 per year. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Inc. provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.