Maintenance Manager; Food Manufacturing

Overview

Reporting to the Plant Manager at our Menomonie, Wisconsin plant, you will lead the maintenance function to ensure reliable, efficient manufacturing operations while minimizing downtime and sustaining peak plant performance.

• Lead plant maintenance and operations to reduce downtime and achieve optimal equipment performance.
• Direct the maintenance team, setting expectations and driving performance and accountability.
• Promote and manage safety across the Maintenance technicians.
• Promote and manage Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Affairs and Good Manufacturing Practices requirements.
• Develop and manage the maintenance operating budget while monitoring departmental expenditures.
• Support planning and cost estimation for annual and long-term capital budgets.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal environmental regulations and operational permits.
• Manage and track Maintenance Department metrics to drive performance improvements.
• Establish standards and systems for evaluating maintenance work, including contractor services.
• Review work completion through reports, inspections, and collaboration with plant teams, contractors, and suppliers.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Reliability Center of Excellence to eliminate equipment failures and sustain base conditions.
• Participate in Reliability Center of Excellence initiatives and implement standardized systems and processes.
• Ensure priority maintenance losses are identified, understood, and addressed through action plans.
• Drive SAP usage, compliance, and skill development across the maintenance team.
• Assess technician capabilities, identify skill gaps, and implement development plans.

• Experience leading teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field.
• 5 or more years of experience in manufacturing maintenance.
• Experience with SAP Plant Maintenance systems.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies including vibration analysis, infrared, and ultrasound.
• Understanding of programmable logic controllers and control systems.

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to visit additional manufacturing facilities.

You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs or ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand‑eye coordination. You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size. This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.

Pay Range: $82,000–$120,000. The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

• Health:
  Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement.
• Wealth:
  Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan.
• Growth:
  Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement.
• Balance:
  Paid‑time off, parental leave, flexible work schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.