About Us:
Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.
Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent and cutting-edge equipment, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers—first and fast.
Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen’s®, Dutch Bros® beverages and Nurri™, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages – and about building a team that’s just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.
Our Core Values:
Position Overview:
This position ensures effective execution of maintenance work control processes by managing priorities, developing job plans, and identifying required parts, materials, crafts, and skills. The role assigns work control plans to the appropriate team members for execution by hourly maintenance staff, provides equipment-related expertise and technical guidance, and may supervise hourly Trilliant employees and contractors as needed
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate maintenance downtime with the scheduling team.
- Schedule and delegate department workload to maintenance crews.
o Generate preventive maintenance tasks using computer-based maintenance management software.
o Ensure scheduled work includes a work kit prepared by the maintenance planner or parts administrator.
o Help prioritize open work orders.
- Review all work orders to:
o Address equipment deficiencies found during preventive maintenance inspections.
o Maintain a log of recurring failures.
o Escalate equipment concerns to management, engineering, and/or OEMs.
o Identify opportunities to improve processes and equipment.
- Strengthen the maintenance program by evaluating equipment failure trends, reducing planned downtime, and incorporating predictive maintenance technologies.
- Create technical SOPs, training materials, and troubleshooting guides for the maintenance department with support from other maintenance personnel.
- Review, approve, and plan work requests.
o Follow up on unclear, denied, and completed requests that require action beyond the automated response system.
- Coordinate and manage contracted maintenance and repair activities, including:
o Contracted preventive maintenance programs.
o Planned maintenance projects that require contractor support.
- Maintain and report department key performance indicators (KPIs) to the Maintenance Manager.
- Oversee building and grounds maintenance at Trilliant, including contracting and managing lawn care, snow and ice removal, HVAC, plumbing, and air compressor services.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Two to three years of experience in maintenance or maintenance planning.
- High school diploma or GED; higher education preferred.
- Knowledge of production and procurement policies and procedures.
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Effective oral and written communication and problem-solving skills.
- Mechanical aptitude and the ability to read blueprints and product drawings.
- Proficiency with Outlook, Word, Excel, and related tools.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Experience implementing SOP, OSHA, GMP, SQF, HACCP, or other quality, food safety, and employee safety programs.
- Follow all Food Safety, Safety, GMP, and Quality policies and procedures, and report any nonconformities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and change effectively.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and work effectively at all organizational levels.
- Strong troubleshooting and judgment skills.
- Resourceful, proactive, energetic, and results driven.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
Hours, Location and Pay:
We offer a competitive base pay rate and benefits package for full-time employees. This role works standard business hours Monday – Friday at our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility.
Physical and Mental Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone. This employee may occasionally have to operate business machines and lift and/move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
- Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exists.
Safety Statement:
At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee’s first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.
Disclosures:
- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
- Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
- Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
- Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
- EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
- Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
- The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.
