Manager, Continuous Improvement – Predictive Maintenance

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $109k - $159k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Conagra Brands

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1919

👥 B2C

🛒 Retail

B2C • Retail

Conagra Brands is a leading food company passionate about creating impactful and inclusive culture within the food industry. Known for producing a wide variety of consumer food products such as popcorn, brownies, vegetables, and single-serve meals, Conagra is committed to diversity, inclusion, and supporting its team in personal development. With a significant presence across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the company emphasizes ethical practices, consumer focus, broad-mindedness, and agility in its operations. Conagra Brands prides itself on being one of the best places to work and is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

📋 Description

• Lead and support manufacturing sites to develop and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance plans and work management execution • Conduct assessments of maintenance practices at manufacturing sites and lead development and execution of improvement action plans • Own and manage one or more maintenance systems or standards at the enterprise level, including documentation, training, assessments, and key performance indicators • Support site readiness activities for new capital equipment, ensuring maintenance preparedness • Lead predictive maintenance strategy and execution across all manufacturing sites, including implementation of standards, systems, and best practices • Monitor predictive maintenance performance, identify gaps, track key performance indicators, and drive continuous improvement initiatives • Provide guidance and direction to the Reliability Center of Excellence and senior leadership regarding predictive maintenance performance and opportunities • Collaborate with sites to assess current predictive maintenance capabilities and support improvement initiatives • Develop and maintain predictive maintenance program documentation, including standards, flow charts, and one point lessons • Lead monthly predictive maintenance meetings with manufacturing sites, including agenda development, updates, and action tracking • Plan and deliver training programs across the organization • Partner with external predictive maintenance vendors and service providers • Provide remote and onsite support to manufacturing locations as needed • Stay current on emerging technologies and recommend investment opportunities to advance predictive maintenance capabilities • Participate in Reliability Center of Excellence and engineering meetings and events

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical engineering field or equivalent experience • 10 or more years of experience in maintenance roles within a manufacturing environment, including 5 or more years in a maintenance manager role • Extensive knowledge of manufacturing equipment and parts • Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and 5S • Deep experience developing preventive and predictive maintenance programs • Experience with asset performance management systems related to predictive maintenance • Experience with artificial intelligence assisted or driven predictive maintenance • Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, infrared, and oil analysis; vibration certification preferred • Familiarity with enterprise resource planning systems for work management and materials management • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for data analysis and reporting • Experience using collaboration tools such as SharePoint and Microsoft Teams • Experience creating presentations and delivering training to diverse audiences • Ability to travel (typical requirement will be 50%, though it may occasionally necessitate up to 75%)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans • Wellness incentive program • Mental wellbeing support • Fitness reimbursement • Bonus incentive opportunity • Matching 401(k) • Stock purchase plan • Career development opportunities • Employee resource groups • On-demand learning • Tuition reimbursement • Paid-time off • Parental leave • Flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) • Volunteer opportunities