Director of Maintenance & Engineering

Position Title: Director of Maintenance & Engineering

Reports to: SVP of Tomato Operations

Classification: Full-time, Exempt

Pay: $175,000-$195,000

To attract quality-oriented restaurateurs with consistently superior tomatoes and olive oil, keep them through legendary service, and invest in talented people who share our dedication to customer success.

Stanislaus Food Products is a nationally recognized, family-owned company known for crafting the finest Italian-style tomatoes and sauces for top-quality Italian restaurants and pizzerias.

The Director of Maintenance & Engineering is responsible for the reliability, maintainability, and technical performance of the facility. Reporting to the SVP of Tomato Operations, this position provides leadership for maintenance, engineering, controls, technical development, procurement operations, utilities, and capital improvement efforts to support safe and efficient manufacturing operations.

This role combines maintenance leadership, technical expertise, and analytical decision-making. The Director is expected to spend significant time understanding equipment performance, reviewing maintenance and reliability metrics, developing technical leaders, and driving improvements that increase equipment uptime and operational capability.

• Lead all maintenance and reliability activities to maximize equipment uptime and operational performance.
• Ensure effective execution of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Develop maintenance strategies that reduce downtime and improve equipment reliability.
• Support operations in resolving critical equipment and process-related issues.
• Support the maintenance managers to develop and implement maintenance schedules and programs to prevent equipment failures and extend asset lifespan.
• Ensure accountability among their managers for urgency levels on maintenance request to minimize operations disruptions.

• Establish and maintain engineering standards across the facility.
• Support process optimization and equipment improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Production to improve manufacturing capabilities and performance.
• Provide technical leadership for controls, automation, utilities, and infrastructure systems.

• Analyze reliability metrics, downtime trends, efficiency rates, maintenance costs, and equipment performance data.
• Utilize maintenance KPIs to prioritize resources and improvement efforts.
• Develop action plans to improve reliability performance and reduce operating costs.
• Develop workflow-policies to improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality.

• Provide oversight and support for capital projects and facility improvements.
• Partner with the Operations Continuous Improvement Manager to execute projects that improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and capacity.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action efforts for chronic reliability issues.

• Lead, develop and coach maintenance managers, engineers, planners, Operational Technology (OT) management, and procurement professionals.
• Partner with their managers and People Operations to hire and train their team(s) as demand allows.
• Support succession planning and technical capability development across all areas under this role.
• Reinforce accountability, ownership, and effective troubleshooting throughout their organization.
• Empowers their people to make decisions where problems are solved at the lowest level in their organization.
• Build trust with the organization by allowing people to take ownership for their decisions but knows when and how to coach and guide…