Reliability and Maintenance Manager

As a leader and innovator in the snack food industry for over 50 years, J&J Snack Foods provides branded snack foods to food service and retail supermarket outlets across the U.S. Its products include such icons as SUPERPRETZEL, ICEE, and Dippin’ Dots along with other key brands like LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, The Funnel Cake Factory Funnel Cakes, and Hola Churros. J&J also has a strong presence in bakery providing cakes, cookies, and pies to some of the largest grocery and convenience retailers in industry.

Our company continues to deliver record sales led by a talented team and a commitment to “Fun Served Here”.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Reliability and Maintenance Manageris responsible for leading the plant’s maintenance, engineering, and reliability functions to support safe, efficient, and consistent plant operations. In a snack food manufacturing environment, product quality, safety, cost, and service all depend on reliable equipment performance. This roleensuresthe plant’s assets are a competitive advantage, not a daily operational risk.

• Owns line uptime, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair  (MTTR), and overall equipment reliability for theplant.
• Leads the plant toward a more planned, proactive, and data-driven maintenance culture.
• Develops andmaintainspreventive and predictive maintenance programs that improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
• Leads rootcause analysis and corrective action for recurring equipment issues, chronic losses, and breakdowns.
• Partners with Production to address recurring downtime and improve day-to-day equipment performance.

• Provides leadership and direction to maintenance supervisors and maintenance technicians.
• Sets clear expectations for troubleshooting, work planning,and execution.
• Develops technical capability across the team in electrical, mechanical, controls, refrigeration, and related areas.
• Oversees contractormanagementand provides technicalleadershipfor new equipment installations, line modifications,and capital projects.

• Ownsthe plant’sspare parts strategy, including inventory accuracy,and critical spare availability.
• Improves spare parts controls to reduce stockouts, emergency purchases, and excess or obsolete inventory.
• Implements parts kitting and planning processes to better support scheduled maintenance work.
• Maintainsaccurateassethierarchy,equipment documentation,and maintenance records.

• Uses Redzone to support work order management, PM compliance, downtimedataanalysis, technician accountability, and maintenance visibility.
• Ensures Redzone data is accurate,timely, and used toidentifytrends, prioritize reliability work, and improve equipment performance.

• Ensures maintenance work is completed in compliance with food safety, GMP, quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Reinforces safe maintenance practices, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), contractor safety, and other required safety procedures.
• Supports ammonia/refrigeration compliance, documentation, inspections, and related maintenance requirements.
• Maintains audit-ready maintenance records, including PM documentation, work orders, regulatory records, and contractor documentation.

• Manages the maintenance labor and MRO budget with a focus on cost control, stronger planning, and reduced emergency spend.
• Supports capital planning, equipment upgrade recommendations, and ROI justification for performance improvement projects.
• Tracks and improves key maintenanceperformancemetrics, including uptime, equipment-related OEE loss, PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, planned versus emergency work, spare parts accuracy and availability, maintenance cost per pound/case, safety incidents, and audit findings.

• Serves as the main site partner and liaison for Support Center Engineering on capital projects, technical strategy, engineering standards, and enterprise initiatives.
• Partners with Support Center Engineering oncapitalproject…