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Manager, Maintenance Reliability
Bowery Farming, South Africa
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Feb 14, 2023
Last Date
Mar 14, 2023
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Job Description
At Bowery, we’re making wildly delicious food more accessible to everyone. Driven by our proprietary end-to-end technology, our farms are transforming the entire fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and vastly more sustainable.
We have 5 farms in operation (including state-of-the-art Ramp;D and innovation farms) and we’re just getting started. We’re backed by tech and agriculture industry leaders with $647M in equity and debt capital, and our products are sold in over 1,400 locations.
Working at Bowery is more than just a job. It’s a chance to make a global impact with first-of-its-kind technology and ridiculously good food. We’re always looking for passionate minds to grow (and eat) with us! Ready to make a real difference? Join us. We’d love to have you here.
P.s. Check out our podcast for all things Bowery culture, teams, leadership, and karaoke (yes, karaoke) - https://spoti.fi/3ToY3Mm
About the Role:
Bowery Farming is solving the biggest challenges our food system is facing at a systemic level by re-thinking what agriculture looks like in a world with a rapidly increasing population and dwindling resources. This is an opportunity to join a quickly growing team and make a substantial impact at Bowery. We’re looking for someone that can learn, adapt and roll with a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and who isn’t afraid of uncertainty.
The Asset Care Manager reports to the General Manager and will play a key role in maintaining our farm assets and increasing farm efficiency as we continue to grow. The leader will possess both people management and design/innovation skills. This role will ensure that the facility and equipment are maintained at the highest level and run safely and efficiently and will coordinate and implement preventive maintenance activities. Our ability to maintain healthy, efficient facilities and equipment operations will help drive Bowery’s growth into a worldwide network of interconnected farms.What You'll Do:- Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team in areas such as safety, planning, TPM/reliability, cost, efficiency, quality, and labor utilization
- Develop and implement the farm’s overall preventive and predictive maintenance programs (PM,PdM), leveraging CMMS for planning and scheduling.
- Utilizing the CMMS, ensure that preventative maintenance and demand work orders are completed on time and with high quality
- Implement reliability best practices in order to minimize downtime, MTTR, and maximize equipment efficiency
- Lead corrective, preventive, and continuous improvement opportunities
- Champion the creation of and attainment of maintenance departmental goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Evaluates long-term needs in relation to major projects and property improvements and make recommendations to Management
- Seek, develop, implement and facilitate training programs for all Maintenance personnel
- Responsible for farm facilities systems, building, and support equipment
- Facilitate the Lock-out Tag-out, Hot Work Permit, Confined Space Entry, and other critical safety programs
- Responsible for personnel functions - attendance, discipline, vacation approval, coverage, etc.
- Participate in recruitment, management, and development of the maintenance team
- Support the creation and delivery of operational objectives, facilities services, programs, and contracts for farm facility
- Participate in annual budget development, financial variance, and operations analysis
- Assure capital projects, operations projects, and reconfigurations are managed by the maintenance team with outstanding customer service
- Conduct regular, formal site condition inspections and develop solutions for systemic needs
Who You Are:- Experience in professional maintenance/facilities management or engineering - a significant portion of which should demonstrate success in managing diverse teams, complex facilities, and rapid growth
- Experience building and managing a team or department within a startup or entrepreneurial setting
- Exceptional communication skills; ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Strong customer service orientation
- Comfortable with legal terms and structures for standard commercial contracts
- Strong in supplier and stakeholder management
- Strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems in a complex MEP environment
- Recognized Facility Management professional certification (IFMA or other) desired
- Project management experience / PMP certification desired
- Experience in setting up/improving asset management systems and CMMSdesired
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