About Us:

As an Engineering & Facilities Ammonia Refrigeration Manager, you will enable high performance of the supply chain facility by fostering a reliability-centered maintenance culture within your team that ensures high equipment availability and success for the operation of the supply chain facility. 

A successful candidate in this role will:

• Manage refrigeration ammonia technicians conducting preventive and corrective maintenance on the system.
• Maintain expertise across all electrical, mechanical, and control system communication aspects of our refrigeration systems, including but not limited to compressors, evaporators, condensers and all related ammonia refrigeration systems.
• Oversee a single site food distribution center, serving as a technical subject matter expert that can lead recovery efforts and provide effective troubleshooting during equipment downtime events as well as ensuring compliance with federal, state and local agencies.
• Provide incident communication and promote timely escalation to all partners at HQ and the field,
• Seek proactive solutions and countermeasures to reduce unplanned downtime events within for the refrigeration system.
• Possess the ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to be adept at providing technical leadership and mentoring to the E&F team.
• Possess the ability to inspect, maintain, troubleshoot, repair and train on the ammonia refrigeration system
• Conduct technical interviews for internal and external technician candidates, evaluate technical skills and abilities, and train and coach internal technicians
• Act as the 1st level escalation support for ammonia refrigeration system problems / alarms
• Manage refrigeration maintenance contractors conducting preventive and corrective maintenance on the system
• Coordinate routinely with third party vendors, ensuring adherence to contracted service level agreements
• Work with PSM coordinator to ensure onsite coordination requirements are met
• Ensure timely completion of work orders; repairs, and preventative maintenance and documentation of all maintenance activities
• Maintain thorough knowledge and facilitate site training on appropriate safety procedures and use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while maintaining equipment (Lock Out/Tag Out, Arc Flash, etc.), and ensure a safe work environment by eliminating potential equipment safety hazards
• Develop and implement plans for continuous improvement within the refrigeration system
• Maintain active partnership with fellow refrigeration peers and HQ Engineering team

  Requirements: 

  • Minimum of 2 years field experience operating, maintaining, servicing, and commissioning industrial ammonia systems.
  • Strong knowledge of common industrial safety practices and expectations, including experience with arc flash safety programs
  • Capability to be on-call outside of normal business hours for escalated incident support
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, relating technical issues to business leadership
  • Strong organizational, reasoning, analytical and problem solving skills 
  • Proven ability to motivate and influence teams and manage conflict
  • Ability to read and interpret schematics and technical prints
  • Experience with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel)
  • Ability to access all levels and areas of the facility

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Ammonia refrigeration systems CARO/CIRO

      Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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