Scope:

Direct contact for major projects involving complex mechanical repair, adjustments, and potential equipment problems to maintain the safety, efficiency, and productivity of equipment and plant operations within the Daddy Ray facility.  Maintain preventative maintenance of major equipment and report problems to Maintenance Supervisor/Manager or Engineer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Repair equipment and building functions that are utilized in daily operations.
• Assist in installation of new machinery and equipment
• Fabrication of parts and equipment
• Assist in the identification of design enhancements that can be made to improve equipment reliability while working with vendors and engineering to implement these changes
• Report broken/inoperable/unsafe equipment to shift supervisor, maintenance manager, and/or plant engineer and take immediate corrective action if warranted
• Advise Manager of potential equipment and building issues
• Preventative maintenance
• Guide and assist Maintenance Technicians in equipment repairs
• Assist supervisors in after-hours maintenance calls
• Work independently on various projects assigned by Manager/Supervisor

• Maintain ongoing training in the following areas:
  • OSHA regulated programs
  • Food Defense, GMP’s, HAACP, CCP Procedures
  • Lock Out / Tag Out
  • PPE
  • Machine Operation
  • Reading and understanding production specifications
  • Understanding and recording of data on process documents

• Maintain work area in a clean, orderly, and safe manner
• Comply with company work rules, safety rules, and Good Manufacturing Practices
• Maintain strong interdepartmental communication that facilitates goals
• Responsible for food safety and quality
• Adhere to all environmental, health and safety requirements and procedures
• Other tasks as assigned

Key Competencies

• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to meet strict deadlines on short notices
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Possesses good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Passion and alignment with Company mission, vision, values, and operating principles

Position Requirements

• 3+ years’ maintenance experience working for consumer product manufacturer
• 3+ years’ experience in welding, plc, preventative maintenance, fabrication, and knowledge of in-house equipment and machinery
• Knowledge of OSHA regulations
• Ability to work multiple shifts. Position requires some weekend work.
• Regular and reliable attendance

About Maddox + You:

You will be the manager and project lead for modernizing our BI and reporting infrastructure. You will lead the design, development, and delivery of the company’s analytics platform, data warehouse, and business reporting. This role manages the BI engineering team, sets technical standards for data modeling and metrics, and partners with business leaders to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable insights that support decision-making across Sales, Operations, Finance, and Leadership.

You will be the go-to person for all business intelligence within the Maddox family. You will have intimate knowledge of our business and be able to quantify our performance by collecting data from the various systems that manage all our operations. Your work will enable us to make better decisions, more effectively prioritize our efforts, and do a better job of celebrating our wins. You will have the satisfaction of watching your colleagues be faster and smarter because of the data and training that you & your team provide them.

Reactively, you will prioritize and execute on internal user requests for insights and training them on how to use all reporting. You will manage modifications to data pipelines in response to API changes. You will troubleshoot and repair faulty data flows and reports.

Proactively, you will set clear priorities, standards and delivery expectations for the team getting your own hands dirty whenever needed. You will focus on quality, longevity and speed of delivery when creating views that make core business objects easy to query and business performance simple to quantify. You will implement systems & processes that provide change management and data pipeline observability. You will provide training to internal business users on the proper usage of data and reporting tools. You will be comfortable troubleshooting data integrations from source systems when required.

About Maddox’s Systems:

Maddox maintains a give-the-best/expect-the-best attitude. Our team is equipped with high-end laptops (mostly Apple, some Windows) with multiple external monitors. We have a stipend-supported BYOD mobile policy and our team uses a variety of both iOS and Android smartphones. We exclusively employ cloud-based solutions, enabling our team to work from anywhere. We prefer to use enterprise-supported open-source projects integrated with single-focus, best-in-class SaaS products, rather than rely on all-inclusive solutions with high vendor lock-in. Solutions we currently employ (or are implementing) include: BigQuery, Metabase, Google (Mail, Drive, Doc, Sheets), Odoo ERP, Slack, RingCentral, Pipedrive, Asana, QuickBooks Time, Gusto, Ubiquiti.

Our current tech stack includes:

• NextJS, NodeJS & Typescript - for custom integrations and web applications
• React - for frontend
• Shadcn - UI library
• MySQL & Postgres on Google Cloud SQL - operational data store
• Python  - for ERP & scripting
• Legacy PHP - minimal development here
• Docker
• Terraform
• Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, GCS, GCE, etc.)
• Metabase - BI reporting / visualization

More about You:

• You are a hands-on leader and comfortable mentoring and working with junior colleagues.
• You have proven experience interacting with key stakeholders explaining technical problems in simple, easy to digest ways.
• You love making businesses more efficient and scalable.
• You are a fast learner and pick up new technologies and user/business contexts quickly.
• You are focused and able to maintain excellent attention to detail.
• Your colleagues are located all across the country, so you need to be able to communicate clearly and succinctly via phone, email, and chat.
• You are comfortable with abstract thinking and domain-driven design.
• You prefer a healthy team vs. operating as a lone wolf.

Experience & Education: We are looking for someone who has been a manager of technical data or software focused teams before, preferably with 3-5+ years under their belt. A technical or engineering degree is helpful, but not required. 

Travel: This job can be performed from any Maddox office. Quarterly travel to different Maddox facilities around the United States will be required.

Pay: Starting range: $140k-$155k (wages and bonus) plus a comprehensive full-time benefits package that averages more than an additional $20k/year per employee (individual amounts vary on age, family size, and other factors).

Pro Tip: We get a LOT of applicants, so if you want to stand out, write a few sentences telling us what stood out to you, and why you think you’d thrive in this particular opportunity.