Supervisor - Maintenance at Tropicana Brands Group in City of Industry, California

Job Description:

About Tropicana Brands Group

The launch of Tropicana Brands Group represents an exciting fusion of some of the world's most beloved and up-and-coming brands in the juice category, including Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Dole, Copella and Punica. Established in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and PepsiCo, our new company blends the best of two worlds: one steeped in industry-leading expertise and the heritage of prestige juice brands, and another rooted in a true entrepreneurial, agile mindset.

With a global footprint of more than 2,000 associates that spans North America and Europe, we are proud of our industry-leading capabilities in areas that include innovation, R&D, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing and nutrition expertise.

The company's focused on the vision to quench the world's thirst for more delight and nourishment, while continuing to build upon the many important diversity, sustainability, local community and philanthropic activities that our people and brands have historically supported.

Key Responsibilities:

Tropicana Brands Group is looking for a highly qualified Maintenance Supervisor to support the Supply Chain team and Maintenance & Engineering Manager to ensure the company's goals and initiatives are met. This role will be responsible for managing Lead EMTs (Engineering Maintenance Technicians), EMTs and an MSR. Individual support the maintenance team to meet customer needs and achieve standards related to cost, line efficiencies, waste, safety, and productivity.

• Working Schedule: 1st shift - 5:30AM-2:00 PM with Saturday or Sunday rotation every 6-8 weeks

Additional responsibilities:

• Management of hourly EMT's Dayshift and Offshift


• Leads maintenance technicians to achieve performance standards with regards to PM completion, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (breakdown analysis)


• Promote TBG's TPM efforts and advance the Preventative Maintenance processes with a manual maintenance management system


• Oversees and assures facility equipment reliability to minimize downtime


• Work closely with suppliers and coordinate vendors who support maintenance activities


• Manage Resource Conservation initiatives


• Facilities management


• Aligns team agenda with Annual Operating Plan objectives. Maintains spending to budget


• Develops others by training and coaching frontline employees - setting expectations, providing feedback and recognizing and rewarding good performance


• Ensures compliance with all Health & Safety and Food Safety regulations


• Effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization


• Identify gaps in performance, investigate root cause effectively and efficiently, and implements counter measures to eliminate recurrence


• Administer company policies, procedures, and the collective bargaining agreement within the department


• All other duties as assigned by management


• Tackle ambiguous problems to determine and prioritize business strategies


• Ability to structure and prioritize tasks, and focus efforts in an ambiguous work environment


• Demonstrated ability to implement short and long term strategies to support organizational operation and transformation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably a B.S. in Science, Engineering, or Maintenance Technologies, or comparable work experience (at least 5+ additional years)


• 5+ years in a high speed Manufacturing environment, required


• Maintenance experience in a food and beverage environment with progressive career path, preferred


• Must have permanent, unrestricted U.S. work authorization (citizen, green card, or unrestricted EAD)

Benefits Overview:

TBG is pleased to offer you a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, company provided life, STD and LTD insurance. In addition, you may also elect to participate in voluntary life, accident, hospital, and critical illness coverages.

TBG offers a 401(k) plan administered through Fidelity which allows you to contribute pre- or post-tax dollars and invest as you choose to save for retirement. TBG makes employer matching contributions to your 401(k) account and will contribute 100% of the first 3% and an additional 50% of the next 2% for a total of a 4% company contribution.

The salary range for this position is $68,900-$85,000 annually.