Liberty Maintenance Manager

Job Title: Liberty Maintenance Manager
Department: Maintenance
Reports To: Head of Maintenance
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Liberty
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Shift /

Schedule:

1st
Travel Requirements: Minimal; travel between plants occasionally when needed
Employment Type: Full-time

The Maintenance Manager provides hands‑on leadership to Farmer Focus production facilities in Harrisonburg, VA. This roleis responsible for leading maintenance operations, supporting safe and reliable plant performance, overseeing maintenance teams, and ensuring the successful completion of machine maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and improvement of food processing and ancillary equipment.

The Maintenance Manager plays a key role in supporting the production of Farmer Focus premium organic chicken bymaintaininga safety-first mindset, partnering with Operations, managing reliability improvement initiatives, and leading projects that support established performance metrics. This position is responsible for preventive maintenance programs, reliability improvement, downtime reduction, maintenance training, repair and maintenance spending, capital projects, plant systems, support equipment, and safety program facilitation.

• Provide hands‑on leadership to maintenance teams supporting production facilities.

• Facilitate implementation of preventive maintenance programs.

• Ensure production machines and support equipment are running at maximum efficiency.

• Oversee machine maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and improvement of food processing and ancillary equipment.

• Initiate corrective, preventive, and continuous improvement opportunities.

• Activelyparticipatein developing, implementing, and verifying corrective and improvement actions.

• Provide a safe working environment for all employees and support achievement of acceptable incident rates.

• Seek, develop, implement, andfacilitatetraining programs for Maintenance personnel.

• Partner with Plant Managers to develop, implement, andfacilitatetraining programs for Maintenance Group Leads, Manufacturing Technicians, and Maintenance Technicians.

• Interact directly with the Complex Manager to support effective preventive maintenance and reduction of downtime.

• Maintain open communication channels to support positive internal customer relations.

• Controlrepair and maintenance spending.

• Ensuretimelyordering of materials and parts for the plant.

• Maintain responsibility for plant systems and support equipment.

• Maintain responsibility for plant repair and maintenance needs and operating supplies.

• Manage capital projects.

• Audit production equipment toidentifymaintenance, safety, reliability, or improvement needs.

• Facilitate Lockout/Tagout, Hot Work Permit, Confined Space Entry, Workplace Inspections, OSHA Inspections, Safety Bulletin, General Safety, and Respiratory Protection safety programs.

• Plan, select, develop, coach, and lead a strong maintenance team.

• Lead improvement efforts inmaintenancereliability, predictive maintenance, and preventive maintenance.

• Support compliance with safety standards, company policies, regulatory expectations, and plant procedures.

• Perform all other related duties as assigned by Management.

$125,000 - $150,000

Farmer Focus offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support team members’ health, financial well‑being, and professional growth. Available offerings may include weekly payroll,paid time off and sick leave,semi-subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision plan options, a 401(k) plan with company match,HSA and FSA,education reimbursement opportunities, employeeassistanceprograms (EAP), and internal learning, development, and career growth programs.

All benefits,…