Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

Founded in 1954, Vibrant Ingredients is a leading provider of natural, clean label ingredients and systems that power extraordinary food and beverage experiences. The company's broad portfolio — including natural flavors, botanical extracts, functional nutrition, cold brew coffee, tea essences, and food protection solutions — enhances taste, texture, color, shelf life, and performance across a wide range of applications. Vibrant operates four state-of-the-art facilities across the United States and works with leading brands, manufacturers, and food service operators.

With vertically integrated capabilities and a proven track record of innovation and execution, Vibrant helps customers accelerate to market without compromise.

About the role:

We are a trusted partner to our customers when it comes to innovation and an industry leader in clean label ingredients, we are a true partner. We collaborate with our customers in ways that respect people and the environment. A commitment to Purely Better™ drives our innovation team to discover new, on trend solutions.

As a Maintenance Supervisor, you will play a critical role in building and leading a cohesive team of maintenance professionals responsible for executing planned and unplanned maintenance activities across Vibrant Ingredients facilities. This role drives the safe, efficient, and cost-effective growth of our production units by maximizing equipment reliability, improving overall equipment effectiveness, and creating long-term solutions that enhance safety, quality, productivity, and equipment uptime.

How will you contribute:

• Provide leadership and direction to the maintenance team, including work planning, task assignment, skill development, and performance accountability.
• Build and sustain a strong team environment that owns downtime, rate performance, and equipment reliability across the facility.
• Oversee the CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), spare parts inventory, and preventative maintenance (PM) program to ensure equipment readiness and reliability.
• Fully develop the plant CMMS to include spare parts setup, inventory optimization, PM updates, and workload leveling.
• Ensure timely planning and execution of work orders and PMs to maintain and improve equipment availability.
• Collaborate with maintenance, engineering, and operations teams to identify root causes of equipment failures and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate maintenance mechanics and contractors required for process improvement and maintenance projects.
• Train and develop maintenance mechanics on new technologies, processes, and engineered modifications.
• Identify, plan, and execute projects that enhance equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs.
• Develop tools and techniques to analyze and optimize preventative maintenance procedures.
• Evaluate new materials, equipment, processes, and procedures to improve production lines and equipment performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements /

Qualifications:

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
• Or 5 years of equivalent experience.
• Experience in maintenance within a food manufacturing environment preferred.
• Knowledge of food processing and/or chemical processing, GMPs, clean design principles, etc.
• Familiarity with batch and continuous processing, including filtration, extraction, and packaging technologies.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications.
• Hands-on experience with automation implementation, including project scoping, equipment selection, and commissioning.
• Familiarity with food safety programs such as SQF, Kosher, and others.

Work Environment:

• May involve exposure to allergens such as Soy, Wheat, Fish, Shellfish, Milk, Egg, Tree Nuts and Sesame.

What Vibrant Ingredients can offer you:

• Generous time off for vacations
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Health & Wellness programs

More about us:

Vibrant Ingredients, headquartered in Lake Mary, FL, is one of the world's leading independent providers of natural ingredients. With a legacy spanning over 70 years, we deliver a…