Maintenance Manager - Food Manufacturing

Position Title: Maintenance Manager
Location: Massillon, OH 44646
Industry: Food Manufacturing (Snack Production Facility)

Role Summary

The Maintenance Manager will serve as a key member of the plant’s leadership team and be responsible for leading the maintenance and reliability efforts across the production facility. The role focuses on creating and executing a proactive maintenance strategy, improving equipment uptime, optimizing asset life, and supporting lean manufacturing principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance operations including installation, repair, and safe operation of processing and packaging equipment, ensuring full compliance with regulatory standards (OSHA, FDA, GMP, NFPA, NEC, etc.).

• Collaborate with operations and production leadership to establish metrics such as uptime, reliability, and efficiency.

• Develop and deploy a reliability and maintenance program including predictive & preventive maintenance, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and root cause analysis.

• Maintain control of spare parts inventory, contractor/vendor relationships, and maintenance budget to optimize cost and asset availability.

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of supervisors, planners, and technicians—ensuring staffing, training, and performance management across 24/7 operations as needed.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime, improve equipment performance, and extend equipment life through data-driven strategies.

• Interface with cross-functional teams (engineering, quality assurance, operations, safety) to ensure maintenance supports production goals and regulatory requirements.

• Handle capital project maintenance planning, major equipment upgrades, and strategic asset replacement decisions as required.

• Other duties as assigned by plant leadership.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment (food, beverage or high-volume consumer goods) with at least 3 years in a supervisory or management role.

• Proven experience in leading maintenance teams, implementing reliability-centered maintenance programs, and managing maintenance budgets.

• Strong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, automation (PLC/VFD), instrumentation, and ability to lead troubleshooting efforts.

• Experience with CMMS systems, maintenance data/analytics, as well as Lean, Six Sigma or TPM methodologies preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and experience considered.

• Excellent communication, leadership, project management, and organizational skills.

• Comfortable working in a regulated production environment and aligning maintenance operations with food-safety and quality assurance standards.

Why Join

• Competitive compensation and bonus / incentive potential.

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement match, etc.

• Opportunity to lead and shape reliability and maintenance strategy in a major manufacturing facility with growth potential.