FSM - 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 Maintenance Superintendent for our Fort Smith, AR location.
Summary: Provides leadership, consultation, and direction to all maintenance departments.
Performs administrative duties in preparing and maintaining records, reviews maintenance production and preventive maintenance reports and follows through on deviations from expected results and goals.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.
Other duties may be assigned.
Directs maintenance departments for both slaughter and debone plants.
Performs administrative duties in preparing and analyzing reports for maintenance.
Holds maintenance supervisors accountable for hourly maintenance personnel and maintenance downtime.
Manages the learning and training of subordinates to continually improve their knowledge and skills.
Maintains close and effective working relationship with production, quality control, and USDA.
Performs other duties as required.
Must pass a background investigation.
This is a safety sensitive position.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages up to four subordinate supervisors who supervise up to 75 employees in the maintenance department.
The superintendent 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: Bachelor's degree (B.
A.
) from four-year college or university in engineering or business administration; and five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to define 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 variables.
Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software; Manufacturing software; Payroll systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
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 and talk or hear.
The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception 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.
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.