Maintenance Manager - Prepared Foods

Base pay range

$90,000.00/yr - $/yr

The Maintenance Manager oversees all maintenance operations in a further processing poultry facility with four active production lines, ensuring equipment reliability, minimal downtime, and safe, efficient cooked and ready-to-eat (
RTE
) production. This role requires hands‑on experience maintaining further processing equipment, including ovens, fryers, formers, batter/breader systems, spiral freezers, and high‑speed packaging lines. The Maintenance Manager leads maintenance teams while partnering closely with Production, QA, Food Safety, Safety, Engineering,िप合同清洁团队，以支持高度监管的高吞吐量环境。

• Interview, hire, lead, train, and develop maintenance technicians, leads, and clerks.
• Assign daily work orders, set priorities, and balance reactive and preventive tasks.
• Build a strong culture of safety, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Conduct coaching sessions, performance evaluations and support technical skill development.

• Oversee daily troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance of plant equipment such as cookers, ovens, fryers, batter/breader systems, formers, spiral freezers, metal detection, check weighers, case packers, robotics, and high‑speed packaging equipment, in addition to conveyors, motors, pumps, compressors, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Ensure all work is completed efficiently, safely, and in compliance with food safety/GMP standards.
• Maintain full documentation of work orders, PM tasks, breakdowns, and repairs.
• Support allergen changeovers, sanitation windows, and product transitions by ensuring equipment readiness and maintenance coordination.

• Develop and manage PM/PdM programs to reduce downtime and extend equipment life.
• Develop PM/PdM schedules aligned to four production lines
  , minimizing impact to throughput while supporting sanitation and food safety requirements.
• Evaluate equipment performance and implement proactive corrective actions.
• Track KPIs such as uptime, mean time between failure (
  MTBF
  ), and PM compliance.

• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with OSHA, USDA, EPA, NFPA and company regulations.
• Support audits, inspections, and corrective actions.
• Ensure proper Lockout/Tagout (
  LOTO
  ), machine guarding, and safe work practices.

• Manage maintenance budget, including labor, parts, supplies, and contractors.
• Oversee spare parts inventory, purchasing, vendor relationships, and cost control.
• Recommend and plan capital projects and long‑term equipment upgrades.

• Partner with Production to address equipment issues and improve line efficiency.
• Support Safety with hazard corrections and engineering controls.
• Work closely with QA and Food Safety to ensure maintenance activities support RTE compliance, cook validations, allergen controls, and sanitation effectiveness.
• Coordinate with Engineering on new equipment installations and facility expansions.

• Directly supervises up to 5 Maintenance Supervisors and provides indirect leadership to all hourly Maintenance personnel reporting directly and indirectly corona those Supervisors across multiple shifts.

• Required experience in further processing maintenance within a poultry or food manufacturing environment, including cooked or RTE operations.
• Experience supporting multiple simultaneous production lines and high‑speed packaging required.
• Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and PLC‑based systems.
• Experience with ammonia refrigeration a plus.
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics, and equipment manuals.
• Strong leadership, communication, and problem‑solving skills.

• High school diploma or GED required; technical degree חד certification strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience required.
• 3+ years of maintenance leadership experience specifically in eclipsing, cooked product, or RTE food manufacturing.
• Experience with CMMS systems required.
• Further Processing Maintenance Expertise – Strong working knowledge of further processing and RTE…