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

With nearly $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 Director of Engineering isresponsible for the overall leadership and management of the maintenance, reliability, and engineering functions of fairlife's Webster, NY, greenfield plant. The purpose of the role is to ensure the newly built facility can achieve and sustain OEE's at the level of its design potential with a key focus on safety, quality, and reliability. In addition, this role will provide inspiration, direction, coaching and feedback to the maintenance and reliability teams which are responsible for meeting the business plan and strategic objectives whilst strengthening the fairlife culture of Believe in Better and fostering a culture of measurement driven continuous improvement.The Director of Engineering will work closely with the Project Engineering team to ensure the Webster plant is built, commissioned, and ramped up sustainably and efficiently. They will be responsible for an effective handoff of ownership from the project team and OEM's to the plant team ensuring the necessary level of training, support, systems, and specifications are in place to deliver sustained results. They will drive and implement management routines, PM programs, improvement projects, and technical solutions. The engineering director will also support the hiring and onboarding of maintenance leadership, reliability engineers, subject matter experts to build a strong and capable technical team at the Webster Plantresponsibilities:

• Build robust maintenance and engineering programs including equipment overhaul strategies, spare parts management, technical support, reliability systems, and utility management.
• Support and guide the implementation of CMMS in the Webster facility, working closely with internal and external partners toward a complete solution
• Implement and drive strategic projects, and problem solving routines to increase plant reliability, and reduce unplanned downtime
• Develop technical subject matter experts, and engineering techs responsible for the reliability and efficiency of critical areas within the plant including, UHT's, Aseptic Filling, Utilities, Packaging
• Key stakeholder in the site capital process by developing, supporting, and implementing key capital projects
• Oversee and drive capital projects