3rd Shift Electrical & Automation Technician

3rd Shift Electrical & Automation Technician Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe? At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader.
Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.
S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe.
Headquartered in Oakland, the Bay Area’s hub for up and coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream.
We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain, and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality.
With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly.
We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it.
Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you.
Main Purpose: Effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation.
To consistently achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime, through effective management and upkeep of the processes, teams and equipment, so as to ensure that we achieve customer service level with our customers, through the manufacture of products to the right quality and specification.
Covering all aspects of food safety.
This will be achieved by ensuring that engineering teams are effectively coordinated and managed, through having a clear knowledge and understanding of requirements, providing hands-on on technical skills (lead by example), attention to detail and providing all teams with inspiration, guidance, motivation, training and multi-skilling.
Job Description: Requirements Education Associate’s Degree in engineering/technology or equivalent, preferably electrical and/or automation engineering/technology Experience 3-5 years' experience In-depth knowledge of electricity including low voltage and medium voltage installations Good knowledge of electrical safety Knowledge of instrumentation and process control systems In-depth knowledge of HMIs and PLCs Role and Activity Site Maintenance and Department The position is on the factory floor – definitely a hands-on role – technical utilities skills required to train, teach and develop employees.
20 – 30 % Maintenance work; 70 - 80% Capital Project Work .
Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery – either through management of others or fixing the matter directly.
Production Plan, kept informed and updated of any changes to this plan in order to plan daily work and equipment readiness enables plan completion, ensure all machinery is available for production when required Drive the team to look for issues, and not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task Awareness of all machinery problems or any unfinished jobs, as well as anticipated timing for repair.
Keep a full library of machine’s manuals, along with support mechanisms linked to site or group resources when information and support is required.
Ensure maintenance team has electrical and automation skills to quickly responds to all calls.
Create a “one person for one job” policy unless the job requires more or for training; never compromise safety.
Ensure all areas are operating under control, the workplace, workshop and stores are clean, organized and tidy by maintaining a clean as you go policy in all areas.
Ensure all power distributions systems are operated, inspected, and maintained in a safe, productive and reliable manner Good knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, Servo Drives and Servo motors, Rockwell is required.
Good knowledge of Ethernet/IP, ControlNet and DeviceNet communication protocols Ability to program PLC, HMIs, VFDs and Servo Drives is required.
Rockwell is required Ability to help and troubleshoot electrical systems up to 600Vac using tools such as Multimeter or Megohmeter.
Drive the production process to ensure that the products produced meet customer specifications, quality and food safety.
Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly production meets targeted outputs through effective management of equipment and engineering resources Provide a visible presence in production to guide, coach, monitor and control the issues and activities and be accessible to all.
Spend majority of work hours with a visible presence in production to guide, coach, monitor and control the issues and activities and be accessible to all.
Communicate effectively with all the team, not just “Send and Forget” emails.
Proactively looking for areas of improvement and to adopt techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the factory Ensure that you walk the talk and use the “looking eyes”, attend to the issues as and when they happen.
The daily site walk must deliver a clean tidy site all over.
Promote the Froneri culture of employees being owners rather than just employees.
To ensure the use of other group resources to ensure synergies are carried through, driving knowledge and issues to be shared.
Briefing & de-briefing the team on daily basis.
Stores Engineering stock is accurate and is kept at a controlled value, at the same time ensuring critical spares are available Risk assessment of all critical spares Know what has been used and ordered daily Create links with other sites where feasible to not duplicate stores stock Ensure redundant stock does not build up Maintenance Tasks Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose, that it evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around.
Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all times.
Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures in order that you and any other persons using the area of work can do so safely.
Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability Budget Treat all spends as if they are your own To manage, monitor and control costs to ensure that site costs are within budgeted requirements Supports the Maintenance and Engineering in all other capacities as requested Measurable Outcomes [Consider each of the activities/tasks/duties listed above and identify how the business will measure your activities] Down time Balance between planned & reactive Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues due machinery Waste driven by poor equipment performance Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI’s Projects delivered on time within budget Drive actions from quality benchmarking Levels of responsibility All site process and equipment.
Break down interventions, maintenance and improvements Production Targets Maintenance budget Health & Safety Impeccable hygiene standards always Behaviors Performance – Open to change and will always look for better, simpler and more effective ways of operating.
Operate under controlled speed and pressure Hands on approach.
– Decisions and plans based on looking and being part of the event, not solely based on report reading.
Know and understand the process and machinery Zero compromise on Quality and excellence.
– Hygiene, Process, speed and Wastage.
Entrepreneurial – Challenges the status quo and explores new ideas and opportunities Continually striving knowledge of the process and product - Understand all tasks, processes and activities as an expert in Ice cream.
Teamwork – Commitment and enthusiasm to working together to achieve better outcomes, with a sense of customer service towards the factory Accountability – Personal commitment, Methodical and self-disciplined, Logical thinking Consumer focused –Help produce products that meets quality standards The pay scale for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
The pay scale disclosed below has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.
At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
The pay scale for employees currently in this role is up to $29.
99 - $40.
49 depending on experience.
A good faith estimate of the range the company will pay for successful applicants for the current opening is up to $29.
99 - $40.
49 depending on experience.