Fsm - Feed Mill Maintenance Superintendent

Founded more than 80 years ago, OK Foods has grown from a livestock and poultry feed manufacturer to join one of the world's leading chicken producers, Bachoco.
Bachoco OK Foods produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco OK Foods family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.
Bachoco OK Foods is seeking a Feel Mill Maintenance Superintendentfor our Fort Smith, AR location.
Summary: The Maintenance Superintendent is primarily responsible for managing all aspects of the maintenance function to ensure safe working conditions and to meet or exceed regulatory compliance (i.e. USDA, GMPs, OSHA, etc.). Partners with management team to create and maintain a safe work environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Independently manages a large maintenance team over multiple shifts to ensure production machinery is functioning at optimal capacity and facilities and grounds are well maintained.
• Determines work order priority and schedules repairs, maintenance and installation of machines/equipment to keep disruption of manufacturing to a minimum.
• Supervises maintenance department personnel in day-to-day operation to insure minimal downtime, costs and optimal accountability, productivity, and efficiency.
• Identifies and implements cost reduction opportunities in conjunction with operating teams.
• Works closely with Quality Assurance in resolving maintenance related issues.
• Establishes and enforces Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to regulate the maintenance function within the processing plant.
• Mentors, coaches, and trains/cross-trains employees while encouraging career development; provide consistent feedback concerning strengths and areas in need of improvement.
• Administers performance improvement plans and disciplinary actions on a fair and consistent basis.
• Follows, promotes, and ensures subordinates adhere to all safety initiatives helping to maintain a zero-accident culture.
• Establishes, communicates, and maintains expectations to support safety, company standards and to provide clear direction to employees.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• This is a safety sensitive position.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages 5 hourly employees in Maintenance. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year relate experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software; Inventory software; Payroll systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
Other Skills and Abilities: A person has to be able to perform the above items and be flexible to changes and adjust to interruptions brought on by unseen problems with equipment, production, sanitation, and personnel. Must be able to read and understand schematics, drawings, mechanical manuals, and code books.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk or hear, stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The 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.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; vibration and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.
*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies:
Please note that Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.
In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco OK Foods.