Job opening
Maintenance Manager
Filed under Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Full job description
Our client, a manufacturing company located in Vineland, NJ, is looking for a Maintenance Manager (Confidential Search) to join their team!
What you will do in this role:
- Team Leadership: Lead, coach, schedule, and develop a multi-shift maintenance team; establish accountability, performance standards, training, and coverage.
- Preventive/Predictive Maintenance: Develop and improve PM programs, monitor completion and effectiveness, maintain equipment records, and use condition-monitoring techniques to prevent failures.
- Reliability & Production Support: Maximize uptime, respond to breakdowns, troubleshoot equipment, lead root-cause analysis, eliminate recurring failures, and support equipment installations and commissioning.
- Food Safety & Sanitation: Ensure maintenance practices comply with GMPs, HACCP, sanitation requirements, USDA/FDA regulations, and food-safety standards. Control contamination risks associated with maintenance activities.
- Safety & Compliance: Maintain a strong safety culture and ensure OSHA, LOTO, hot work, confined space, electrical, fall protection, and contractor safety requirements are followed.
- Electrical, Controls & Automation: Support troubleshooting and maintenance of PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, motors, sensors, control panels, and automated production systems.
- Facility & Utilities: Oversee reliability of boilers/steam, refrigeration, compressed air, HVAC, water/wastewater, electrical distribution, natural gas, fire protection, process utilities, infrastructure, and backup power systems.
- Parts & Inventory: Maintain critical spare-parts inventories, establish stocking levels, control usage, and manage supplier relationships.
- Budget & Cost Control: Manage maintenance spending, labor, parts, contractors, and outside services; identify cost-saving opportunities and support capital expenditure decisions.
- Contractors & Vendors: Manage service providers and vendors, obtain quotes, coordinate projects and repairs, and ensure compliance with site requirements.
- Continuous Improvement: Use downtime and maintenance data to improve reliability, efficiency, labor utilization, energy consumption, and throughput. Support Lean, TPM, 5S, and reliability initiatives.
What you will bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of progressive manufacturing maintenance experience.
- 5+ years of maintenance leadership/management experience.
- Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with PM/predictive maintenance programs.
- Knowledge of PLCs, VFDs, motors, sensors, pneumatics, hydraulics, and automated equipment.
- Strong knowledge of OSHA and LOTO requirements.
- Proven problem-solving, root-cause analysis, leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to lead a multi-shift team and collaborate across Production, Quality, Food Safety, Sanitation, Engineering, and senior leadership.
What our client is offering:
- A competitive salary and full medical/health benefits for the employee and their family.
- The chance to join a growing company with a great work environment.
If you feel that this role would be a good fit for you, please submit your resume today in MS Word format – Don’t forget to include your accomplishments and achievements.