Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will oversee the maintenance department, production lines, and affiliated equipment at our Louisville, Kentucky manufacturing plant, where we produce products such as biscuits, hotcakes, and McGriddles. You will schedule work and resources to meet production demands, maintain the preventive maintenance system, and support the plant's safety and uptime goals. You will manage maintenance expenses by controlling overtime and parts costs while ensuring mechanical integrity and equipment reliability programs are optimized to support employee safety and environmental compliance. You will work to maximize plant availability, product quality, and cost effectiveness while supporting maintenance and capital projects.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance resources to meet production needs

• Monitor downtime and identify opportunities to improve production efficiencies

• Train, motivate, and direct employees to follow safe work methods and established standards

• Maintain a cooperative working relationship with United States Department of Agriculture officials

• Oversee the purchase of supplies and repair parts, ensuring quality and cost effectiveness

• Support and reinforce the plant's safety programs and initiatives

• Ensure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety regulations and standards

• Lead ownership of predictive and preventive maintenance activities including oil analysis, vibration analysis, engine-compressor analysis, and infrared thermography

• Evaluate preventive and predictive maintenance activities and frequencies to optimize workforce utilization and improve equipment reliability

• Provide technical coaching to maintenance team members and support equipment performance tracking and repair prioritization

• Support engineering efforts tied to maintenance and capital improvement projects

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelor's degree in a technical degree program preferred

• 3 years of maintenance experience required

• 3 years of people management experience required

• Experience in a consumer product goods or food manufacturing environment

• Experience with preventive maintenance programs and knowledge of electrical and electronic principles

• Read and interpret safety rules, blueprints, schematics, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

• Write routine reports and correspondence

• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form (ie: blue prints and schematics)

Physical Requirements

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply:
You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination.
You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size.
This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.

#LI-Onsite

#LI-Associate

#LI-PM2

Compensation

Pay Range:$64,000-$95,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.