Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Are you ready to transform maintenance from reactive to world-class?

• Do you enjoy building disciplined maintenance systems that improve equipment reliability and production performance?
• Are you passionate about developing maintenance professionals while driving accountability and continuous improvement?
• Do you thrive in fast-paced manufacturing environments where planning, execution, and operational excellence make all the difference?

If so, Palermo's Pizza has an exciting opportunity for you.

At Palermo's, we're passionate about making great pizza, investing in our people, and continuously improving how we operate. As a family-owned company and one of the nation's leading frozen pizza manufacturers, we believe operational excellence begins with strong leadership and empowered teams.

As the Maintenance Manager, Execution & Planning, you'll play a critical leadership role in transforming our maintenance organization through disciplined planning, proactive execution, and people development. Working closely with Engineering, Reliability, Production, and Operations leaders, you'll help maximize equipment reliability while developing a high-performing maintenance team that supports world-class manufacturing.

• Competitive salary and annual incentive opportunity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and floating holidays
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Career growth within a growing, family-owned organization
• Twenty free pizzas each month
• The opportunity to make a measurable impact on manufacturing performance and reliability

This position is based at Palermo's headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

You'll spend significant time on the production floor partnering with maintenance technicians, production leaders, engineering, and operations to improve equipment performance, develop your team, and drive operational excellence.

As the Maintenance Manager, Execution & Planning, you'll lead the execution of Palermo's maintenance strategy by building a proactive, data-driven maintenance organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading daily maintenance execution across multiple manufacturing operations
• Building and improving preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Driving preventive maintenance completion, schedule compliance, and maintenance planning effectiveness
• Leading maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution processes that maximize equipment availability
• Improving CMMS accuracy, work order quality, and maintenance documentation
• Partnering with Reliability Engineering to prioritize proactive maintenance activities
• Leading, coaching, and developing maintenance supervisors, planners, leads, and technicians
• Managing maintenance labor, staffing, contractor activities, and overtime
• Using maintenance KPIs to improve equipment reliability, productivity, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Promoting a culture focused on safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence

You understand that exceptional maintenance organizations don't happen by accident. They are built through disciplined planning, strong leadership, standardized processes, and continuous development of people.

You enjoy creating systems that reduce reactive work, improve reliability, and help maintenance teams perform at their highest level. You balance technical expertise with leadership and know how to bring people together around common goals.

You thrive when you can:

• Develop maintenance professionals into high-performing teams
• Improve maintenance planning and execution
• Solve complex operational challenges using data
• Build strong partnerships across Operations, Engineering, and Production
• Drive continuous improvement through standardized processes
• Deliver measurable improvements in equipment reliability and uptime

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Five or more years of progressive maintenance leadership experience within manufacturing
• Experience leading preventive maintenance, planning, scheduling, and maintenance execution
• Experience supervising and developing maintenance employees
• Strong CMMS knowledge and maintenance planning experience
• Experience using KPIs to improve maintenance performance and equipment reliability
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods (CPG) experience
• Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or Reliability Centered Maintenance experience
• Predictive maintenance experience
• Experience supporting highly automated manufacturing operations
• Professional maintenance or reliability certifications (CMRP, CMRT, etc.)