Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Precise Resource, Inc. is a leading privately held Women's Business Enterprise specializing in Executive Search, Recruiting, and staff augmentation services for Fortune 1000 clients across the United States. One of our more prestigious clients has asked for help in seeking a Maintenance Manager to join their growing organization.

With a long history of innovation in the food industry, our client, a global leader, partners with some of the world’s biggest brands to bring high-quality meat and food products to tables worldwide. From sourcing and processing to custom food solutions, they combine cutting-edge technology with a commitment to sustainability and food safety. What sets them apart is their ability to adapt, delivering consistent, scalable results while staying flexible enough to meet each customer's unique needs. It’s a place where long-term relationships and a passion for quality drive everything they do.

What you will be doing:

We're looking for a skilled Maintenance Manager for our maintenance department to keep operations running smoothly. In this role, you’ll be the go-to person to ensure all production equipment is installed, running, and repaired when needed, keeping downtime to a minimum. You’ll set the tone by creating clear maintenance procedures, mentoring and supervising a solid team of technicians, and managing the department’s budget to ensure we stay efficient and cost-effective.

If you’re someone who loves solving problems, leading from the front, and making a real impact on day-to-day operations, we’d love to talk and learn more about you.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and administer policies and procedures for the maintenance department. These include purchasing policies, training policies, scheduling policies, preventive maintenance programs, spending and budget controls, and inventory control programs.
• Supervise maintenance department employees which includes, but is not limited to, hiring, disciplining, terminating, training, performance evaluation, employee assistance, conflict resolution, policy and procedure enforcement, and compensation recommendations.
• Procure and direct outside technicians, outside contractors, or original equipment manufacturers as needed to supplement in-house mechanics to ensure production equipment runs efficiently.
• Provide technical assistance and direction to operating groups in order to enhance operator proficiency and develop operator training programs, standard operating procedures, safety guidelines and cleaning methods.
• Work with managers of other functions to coordinate maintenance activity in support of operational objectives.
• Manage, supervise, and otherwise assist in daily start-up of equipment prior to production runs. Provide resources as needed to diagnose, troubleshoot, and perform repairs as necessary to insure that processing equipment downtime is maintained at acceptable levels.
• Manage and maintain inventories of maintenance supplies and reorder repair parts as necessary.
• Respond, or direct others to respond, to after-hours emergency repair calls as required.
• Maintain safe and sanitary working conditions in compliance with facility and regulatory guidelines individually and as functional leader.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in a mechanically related field or equivalent knowledge and experience gained through working.
• 7 to 10 years of maintenance management experience in a high-volume processing or manufacturing facility, preferably in the meat industry or other governmental-regulated industries such as food, drug, or cosmetics. ( Need to have knowledge of working in a FDA Compliant Industry)
• Ability to communicate instructions to subordinates and status reports and equipment recommendations to members of management.

• Work is generally performed within a plant environment, with extreme temperatures (hot/cold), and proper PPE.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, walk, stoop, be in heavy mechanical areas, use hands or fingers, talk, hear, and feel objects, tools, or controls; may be required to lift up to 50 pounds. Vision abilities include a close vision of a computer screen.

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