Maintenance Manager

Job Overview:

The Maintenance Manager provides leadership and oversight for all maintenance functions, including preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance of production equipment, utility systems, and facility infrastructure. This position is responsible for maximizing equipment reliability and production capacity, minimizing downtime, controlling maintenance costs, and ensuring compliance with company safety, food safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and accountability for all maintenance department employees.
• Plan, prioritize, schedule, and oversee preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities to support production requirements and minimize downtime.
• Ensure all processing, packaging, ancillary, and utility equipment - including boilers and air compressors - is maintained in safe, reliable operating condition.
• Develop, administer, and continuously improve the preventive maintenance program and ensure assigned work orders are completed accurately and within established timeframes.
• Ensure temporary repairs are documented through work orders and permanently corrected in a timely manner to prevent recurring failures or food safety risks.
• Ensure job kits, tools, replacement parts, and materials are identified and available before scheduled corrective or preventive maintenance work begins.
• Monitor equipment performance, downtime, and recurring failures; lead root-cause analysis and corrective action activities.
• Conduct or assign weekly facility and equipment inspections, document deficiencies, and track corrective actions through completion.
• Provide technical support for troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, control, and PLC-related equipment issues.
• Verify repaired or installed equipment is safe, sanitary, and operating to specification before release back to Production.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with Production, Quality Assurance, Sanitation, Warehouse, Safety, and other departments to reduce operational disruption.
• Manage contracted maintenance services and maintain productive relationships with equipment manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers.
• oordinate equipment installations, modifications, relocations, and commissioning activities to support safety, production efficiency, maintainability, and product quality.
• Research and recommend equipment, technology, and process improvements that increase reliability, throughput, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Develop capital project requests and manage approved maintenance and capital projects from planning through installation and completion.
• Prepare, manage, and monitor the maintenance operating and capital budgets; investigate and address significant spending variances.
• Maintain appropriate spare-parts inventory levels and ensure critical components are available to support equipment reliability.
• Ensure maintenance records, daily logs, equipment history, inspection records, and work-order documentation are accurate, complete, and current.
• Establish and monitor department performance measures, including preventive maintenance completion, work-order backlog, downtime, repair response, and maintenance costs.
• Recruit, train, develop, evaluate, counsel, and, when appropriate, discipline maintenance employees in accordance with company policy.
• Ensure employees and contractors follow lockout/tagout requirements, safe work practices, and all applicable safety and environmental regulations.
• Ensure all maintenance work complies with GMPs, sanitation controls, allergen requirements, food safety programs, and Safe Quality Food standards.
• Support continuous-improvement and cost-reduction initiatives by identifying and eliminating equipment and process bottlenecks.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and professional maintenance shop and work environment.
• Respond to after-hours equipment emergencies and adjust work schedules as necessary to support business and production needs.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED required; associate or bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial maintenance, manufacturing technology, or a related field preferred.
• Five or more years of progressive industrial maintenance experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment; food manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Three or more years of maintenance leadership or supervisory experience with responsibility for scheduling, training, performance, and accountability.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, utility, and automated production systems, including PLC troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, adjust, repair, install, and improve processing and packaging equipment.
• Working knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and computerized maintenance management systems.
• Experience developing and managing maintenance budgets, capital projects, contractors, vendors, and spare-parts inventories.
• Knowledge of lockout/tagout, workplace safety, environmental requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Knowledge of GMPs, HACCP principles, sanitation requirements, food safety programs, and Safe Quality Food standards.
• Computer proficiency, including Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, and electronic maintenance or work-order systems.
• Strong leadership, team-building, delegation, decision-making, and employee-development skills.
• Highly developed interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present information clearly to employees, management, vendors, and contractors.
• Ability to maintain composure, set priorities, and make sound decisions during equipment failures and other high-pressure situations.

Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person