Maintenance Technician SME processing

Job Description

Job Description

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes : fairlife® ultra-filtered milk ; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™ , a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

Job purpose : The Experienced Subject Matter Expert (SME) is a crucial role within the Engineering Department that needs to perform at a high level with a very critical eye with a high statistical approach. The SME will provide technical solutions and expertise to Operations, Maintenance, building, plant infrastructure and, utilities. The SME manage and oversee the site maintenance and assisting the team responsible for operational reliability and top loss improvements, capital projects and maintenance / engineering solutions to manufacturing-related processes. This individual will plan, direct, and coordinate team activities including all projects with necessary vendors and in-house resources. They are responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, and efficiencies for the plant through provision of effective methods, controls, and strategies.

Responsibilities :

• Can explain the sterile water locks and flow using the HMI or on the floor with the equipment
• High technical and with mechanical aptitudes
• Open schedule and willing to take calls and assist at all hours including night shift .
• Driven to learn and improve operations and efficiencies
• Excellent and proven problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with other individuals and contribute to team success
• An understanding or desire to learn Mechatronics
• Ability to troubleshoot 90% + of technical issues, create new recipes, develop SOPs, training material, schedules training, PM guidelines, and PM schedule
• The requires a strong mechanical background and an excellent understanding of packaging.
• Proven ability to work with OEM specific machinery that the Goodyear Facility has.
• LOTO and risk assessments
• Identify and communicate material defects
• Follow quality issues to completion
• Own and update all equipment documentation and procedures (CL, CILs, recipes)
• Track the life cycle of equipment specific parts and track inventory and order parts as needed
• Navigate and adjust HMI settings as needed
• Communicate cross-functionally with operators, leadership, engineering, CI, vendors and Krones
• Primary troubleshooting resource for equipment- participates in RCAs
• Disassemble, repair, and reassemble equipment components
• Prioritize, schedule, and communicate any projects and maintenance of equipment to leadership and effected departments
• Leads rebuilds and maintenance initiatives
• Create and modify product recipes as needed.
• Supports equipment specific trials
• Gather, analyze, and communicate equipment specific data
• Serve as a top resource and technical expert for the plant in all disciplines of maintenance, equipment processes and production.
• Lead technical BDA and RCA programs.
• Failure analysis to recommend operational, maintenance, and process changes so as to maximize equipment.
• Work hand in hand with plant vendors to reverse engineer critical parts / components of equipment. Ensure quality parts are made to specification and assign revisions for precise documentation.
• Lead the execution of capital projects with engineers and project managers..
• Ability to reverse engineer OEM parts and assemblies to improve the machine and assembly performance.
• Managing reliability KPIs and department goals incorporating analytical tools to improve reliability, monitor performance, discover root cause, MTBF, and other strategies to implement improvements to eradicate variances. Provide technical support where necessary.
• Develop, assist, support, and collaborate to maintain a continuous improvement culture throughout the entire facility, across all departments forging an innovative environment which utilizes data tools available to drive root causes.
• Driving facility improvements through proper SOP's and ensuring that all personnel within the department have been trained on the SOP's.
• Implement moderately complex reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities.
• Execute the development, design and installation of predictive maintenance programs and technology in alignment with the area procedures.
• Collaborate with and provide guidance to maintenance repairs and production in reliability related processes and the identification of critical spares.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills / qualifications required :

Shift : Monday - Friday

Schedule : The shift is from 7 : 00am to 3 : 30pm

position location : Goodyear, AZ

reports to : Maintenance Manager

travel requirements : Minimal

exempt / nonexempt : Nonexempt

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com .

For Recruitment Agencies

At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team.

As our recruitment is primarily handled in-house, we work only occasionally with external agencies, and only those on our existing, pre-approved vendor list. At this time, we are not reviewing or expanding that list.

Unsolicited resumes or submissions from external agencies not authorized by our Talent Acquisition team will be considered direct candidate applications. As such, fairlife will not assume responsibility for any placement fees associated with these submissions.