Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Position Description:

• As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll serve as a key member of the plant leadership team, driving technical excellence, capital execution, and long-term asset performance across the Memphis facility. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on operational impact, overseeing engineering and asset care to ensure reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement. You’ll lead a team, influence plant strategy, and play a critical role in delivering safe, high-performing operations.

Here's What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead and direct engineering and asset care strategies to support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations.
• Drive continuous technical improvement across facilities, equipment, utilities, wastewater systems, and production control systems.
• Oversee capital and construction projects from planning through execution, ensuring alignment to scope, budget, and timelines.
• Partner with Corporate Engineering, Operations, Quality, and external service providers to deliver project and operational success.
• Deploy and align global engineering strategies with plant performance goals and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish, track, and drive performance against key engineering and reliability KPIs.
• Provide day-to-day operational leadership, technical direction, coaching, and work coordination to designated engineering and asset care personnel.
• Lead asset care and reliability programs to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and extend asset life.
• Support and administer departmental budgets within delegated authority, including capital planning, expense forecasting, budget tracking, and financial justification of projects. Final expenditure approval will remain with an authorized client.
• Support and drive initiatives to strengthen operational performance and culture.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Technical, or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or High School Diploma/GED with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Comprehensive managerial and technical experience in a manufacturing or plant environment.
• Proven experience leading capital projects, including planning, execution, and budget management.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing teams.
• Experience with project management, budgeting, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of utilities operations, facility systems, and maintenance practices.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a union environment.

Qualifications Preferred:

• Experience with in the food manufacturing industry.
• Experience leading asset care and reliability excellence programs.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement frameworks such as KIWS or similar systems.

Work Environment:

• Combination of office and manufacturing plant floor environment.
• Regular interaction with production equipment, engineering systems, and cross functional teams.
• Exposure to plant conditions including noise, temperature variations, and required PPE while on the floor.
• Fast-paced environment requiring strong decision-making, prioritization, and leadership.

Work Schedule:

• Monday through Friday, with flexibility to support operational needs, including occasional work outside of traditional hours.

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