Food Industry Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Pay: $ - $ per year

Job Summary:
The Food Industry Maintenance Manager leads plant maintenance and reliability in a food manufacturing environment. This role combines visible, hands-on floor leadership with strategic asset management, building a capable team and a consistent work-management system. The manager supports production readiness, responds to equipment failures, and drives improvements that reduce recurring downtime while protecting food safety and employee safety.

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily maintenance execution, including shift support, startup readiness, breakdown response, and post-repair verification.
• Manage the maintenance workflow in the CMMS, from work requests and prioritization through planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, and follow-up.
• Coordinate weekly schedules with Operations, Planning, Sanitation, Food Safety and Quality Assurance, and Engineering.
• Maintain a risk-based backlog and monitor maintenance performance, including preventive maintenance compliance, schedule adherence, emergency work, downtime, repeat failures, and work-order data quality.
• Develop reliability plans for critical equipment and use operating and maintenance data to identify recurring losses and prioritize improvements.
• Lead root-cause analysis and translate findings into improved maintenance tasks, operating practices, training, spare-parts plans, or equipment changes.
• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance based on equipment criticality, failure history, operating conditions, inspection results, and technician feedback.
• Lead supervisors, technicians, planners, electricians, controls resources, contractors, and other maintenance support; develop skills, cross-training, and shift coverage.
• Manage critical spare parts, vendor performance, maintenance budgets, and repair-versus-replacement decisions.
• Partner with production and engineering teams to support hygienic equipment design, reliable operations, and effective maintenance shutdowns.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial technology, maintenance management, or a related field; a technical or trade-school credential with substantial relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Eight or more years of progressive maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, including significant team leadership.
• Experience leading maintenance in food, beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience with a CMMS or EAM system, including work orders, asset records, preventive maintenance, planning and scheduling, backlog, and reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems, with the ability to lead technical teams and troubleshoot production equipment.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, maintenance optimization, condition-based maintenance, spare-parts planning, contractor management, and capital planning.
• Relevant professional certifications and experience with high-speed food packaging, refrigeration, utilities, hygienic process equipment, or reliability improvement methods are preferred.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Work Location:
  
  In person

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