RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Train employees, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding, and disciplining employees, addressing complaints, and resolving problems
• Perform repairs and leads workers in diagnosing malfunctions in machinery and equipment and direct workers engaged in dismantling, assembling, and installing machinery
• Responsible to ensure all preventive maintenance is executed timely and properly (includes routine audits of PM’s and WO’s)
• Lead shift in utilization of CMMS system for inventory control and consumption, preventative maintenance, and work order tracking
• Schedule maintenance workers to ensure that sufficient resources are available during production hours
• Shift leader in safety directly responsible for implementing and supervising the DuPont STOP program (in addition serves as a member of the Safety Committee)
• Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product
• Confer with other Supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments
• Responsible for meeting the Maintenance Repair Budget and Building & Repair Budget
• Work closely with outside vendors to help resolve equipment issues related to production and ensure the plant maintains a proper inventory of machine parts
• Support food safety initiative by being an active member of the BRC team

REQUIREMENTS:

• A minimum of 5 years industrial maintenance experience and 2 years supervision
• Proficient in mechanical and electrical troubleshooting and repairs of industrial equipment and facilities
• Knowledge of PLC’s is required
• Proficiency in one technical area and one to two years related experience and/or training: or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Requires strong communication skills (interpersonal, written and verbal)
• Ability to read and write routine reports and correspondence; speak, coach, and persuade maintenance team or to other essential team members in the organization
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume (ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry)
• Capable of defining problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variable

Company Overview:
Kayem Foods is a family owned and operated craft meat business that has been making New England’s favorite franks, sausages, and prepared meats in Chelsea, Mass. since its founding by Kaz Monkiewicz back in 1909. Well over 100 years later, we are the largest meat processor in New England and still pushing our craft to the next level – tweaking recipes to have the perfect flavors and extending our expertise into delicious new areas and collaborations – such as Brave New Kind meat snacks and Kayem’s Night Shift Brewing Small Batch Beer Brats. One thing will never change, it’s our “Old World” food philosophy: to only make food we would share with our own friends and family. We offer the opportunity for professional growth and to make a difference in a flexible and collaborative environment.

Kayem offers competitive wages and benefits to full time employees. Kayem benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, employer funded life insurance, 401k with employer match, paid vacation / PTO, FSA (flexible spending) and tuition reimbursement.

(No agencies or external recruiters please)