Maintenance Manager

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The Maintenance Manager provides leadership, supervision, and technical direction for the maintenance functions supporting both the Sioux Falls, SD and Brookings, SD facilities. This role is responsible for ensuring maintenance programs, equipment reliability, safety standards, food safety expectations, and plant support activities are effectively managed across both locations.

This position partners closely with site leadership, operations, quality, safety, engineering, and maintenance team members to maintain people-safe, food-safe, environmentally safe, and efficient operations. The Maintenance Manager leads efforts to reduce equipment downtime, improve preventive maintenance execution, support capital and process improvement projects, and build maintenance capability across both sites.

• Provide leadership and supervision for maintenance activities supporting both the Sioux Falls and Brookings facilities.
• Ensure both sites meet applicable GRMS, OSHA, LOTO, EPA, food safety, and internal safety requirements.
• Lead and support the Progressive Maintenance Pillar and maintenance reliability systems to drive toward zero breakdowns and reduced maintenance costs.
• Maintain department budgets and ensure maintenance projects stay within approved budget parameters.
• Support reliable plant operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving equipment, utilities, processes, and maintenance systems.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Safety, Engineering, and site leadership to resolve equipment issues and reduce operational disruptions.
• Develop, maintain, and execute preventive maintenance, shutdown, and master maintenance plans for both sites.
• Prioritize work orders, equipment needs, maintenance schedules, and urgent repairs based on business impact, safety, quality, and production needs.
• Provide timely planning and execution support for Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and General maintenance work orders.
• Conduct and facilitate root cause failure analysis for equipment failures that impact production, quality, safety, or reliability.
• Maintain accurate equipment history, maintenance records, and documentation in usable maintenance systems or libraries.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance employees to build technical skills, ownership, accountability, and future leadership capability.
• Support the development and execution of training plans, standard work, and technical procedures for maintenance employees.
• Participate in the development, design, review, and execution of capital projects, CERs, equipment upgrades, and plant improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, improve safety, and lower maintenance costs across both locations.
• Ensure maintenance tools, parts, documentation, and systems are organized and available to support timely execution of work.
• Provide leadership presence and support across both Sioux Falls and Brookings, including regular travel between sites as business needs require.
• Communicate clearly with site leaders regarding maintenance priorities, risks, resource needs, project status, and equipment reliability concerns.
• Promote a zero-loss mindset by identifying and addressing recurring maintenance issues, process gaps, and equipment performance concerns.
• Lead management-style support that fosters accountability, teamwork, safety, and strong work ethic across the maintenance function.

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Support cross-site standardization of maintenance processes, expectations, documentation, and best practices.
• Provide technical and leadership support during audits, inspections, shutdowns, emergency repairs, and special projects.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental, site, and company goals.

• Associate’s degree, technical degree, or equivalent education and experience required.
• Minimum of one year of related maintenance, operations, technical, or training experience required. Prior leadership experience preferred.
• Strong mechanical, technical, troubleshooting, and equipment reliability knowledge.
• Ability to lead maintenance teams across multiple locations.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical manuals, procedures, safety standards, governmental regulations, and business documents.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, procedures, and maintenance-related documentation.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, employees, vendors, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, or written form.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects, and delegate assignments effectively.
• Ability to work with mathematical…