CMMS Strategy & Deployment Manager

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose: The CMMS Strategy & Deployment Manager is responsible for overall support, execution and optimization of the CMMS systems across the fairlife manufacturing plants. They will develop and organize the strategic approach of implementing and utilization of the Computerized Maintenance Management System at the Goodyear AZ, Coopersville MI and future Webster NY plants. Working closely with plant maintenance, engineering leadership, and the supply chain transformation team to deploy and improve the CMMS. This position entails a full understanding and development of the systems required effectively maintain plant assets.  Focusing primarily on the preparation, integration and deployment of Dynaway in the new Webster facility over the next 2+ years, this role will be responsible for ensuring operational readiness of the system at start up. They will support a consistent approach to asset structure, work order execution process and deployment of CMMS systems at future plants.  

responsibilities:  

• Critical resource on the CMMS operational readiness workstream to deliver a complete solution prior to Webster start up
• Asset structure standardization, leveraging learnings from various assets throughout the network to optimize and improve PM approach
• Provide training, guidance and coaching to maintenance planners, mechanics and leadership to ensure consistency and standardization for the work order execution process, and PM development
• Leadership of resources required for data input for all plant assets and spare parts
• Gathers and analyzes CMMS data around asset care, repair time, MTBF, and parts management to provide detailed insights to maintenance leadership across sites on a regular basis
• Ensures safety procedures, including lock-out/tag out procedures, are available and used by personnel performing the work. Ensures that all aspects of the existing company safety policies are incorporated into the job plan
• Works with OEMs to gathers and organizes necessary engineering, contractors, or technical documents, specifications, and drawings
• Supports, and guides CMMS implementation for new sites, and upgrades for existing sites, ensuring consistency and facilitating shared learnings
• Communicates with contractor resources and OEMs directly on specific initiatives and the performance expectations of the work being done.  
• Generates, improves and standardizes reports from CMMS systems to effectively communicate the health of the work execution management process 

skills/qualifications required:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline required
• Minimum 7 years relevant work experience in planning, mechanical discipline and/or supervisory
• Experience with developing and deploying CMMS systems in manufacturing environments
• Strong mechanical/electrical aptitude and experience
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively with mechanics, operators, vendors, OEM suppliers, and management personnel
• Able to perform cost analysis and develop KPI’s for maintenance programs, and overhaul programs
• Able to lead and coordinate planning meetings, project meetings, and report out results to key stakeholders
• Ability to learn and apply preventative maintenance best practices across multiple sites
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.  
• Able to navigate databases, and build digital reports to contextualize reliability data, parts usage, spare parts inventories ect.  
• Ability to analyze and assess training and development needs for mechanics and operators performing rebuilds and repairs
• Systematic problem solver, implementing solutions to solve root cause with an organized, sustainable approach
• Able to handle multiple complex priorities and balances the needs of each according to the business impact 

position location: Goodyear, AZ, Webster, NY, or Coopersville, MI 

reports to: Director of Engineering 

travel requirements: 50% (+80% during CMMS Implementation Projects) 

exempt/nonexempt: Exempt 

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com.

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At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team.