Senior Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Senior Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Location: Tyrone, PA | On-site | Full-time
Shift: 6:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., with evening, weekend and emergency support as needed.


About the Clemens Food Group

For more than 125 years, Clemens Food Group has been guided by a simple principle: do the right thing. As a family-owned, fully integrated food company, we operate across the entire supply chain from raising livestock to delivering finished products. We combine tradition with innovation to produce quality food and build a culture where people are empowered to grow, contribute, and succeed.

As the Senior Maintenance and Reliability Manager at Clemens Food Group’s Tyrone site, you’ll develop supervisors and skilled trades, strengthen maintenance practices and turn equipment data into decisions that prevent recurring breakdowns. You’ll work closely with Operations to balance today’s production needs with tomorrow’s equipment demands, guiding maintenance priorities, capital planning and team development. This is an opportunity to shape how the department works and build a team that takes ownership of its results.

What You Will Lead

• Coach and develop the team; strengthen accountability, skill development and shift communication.
• Prioritize preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance with Operations, Maintenance Planning and MRO.
• Use CMMS, OEE and maintenance KPIs to reduce repeat failures and improve equipment availability, PM compliance and work execution.
• Direct mechanical, electrical, automation and controls troubleshooting, including PLCs, HMIs, VFDs and motor controls.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts, contractors, capital proposals and project support.
• Partner with Engineering, Sanitation and FSQA to protect safety, sanitary conditions and production readiness.

What You Bring

• Seven or more years in industrial maintenance or reliability, including three or more years leading manufacturing maintenance teams.
• Experience developing supervisors and skilled trades; leadership of teams of 15–25 is preferred.
• Results improving reliability through CMMS, downtime analysis and planned maintenance; working knowledge of Excel and OEE.
• Technical breadth across multiple trades, plus budgeting, contractor and capital planning experience.
• A related degree or equivalent technical education and relevant leadership experience.
• Food manufacturing and SAP experience are preferred.
• Experience from other highly automated manufacturing environments can translate.

Agency Statement

Clemens Food Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

EEO Statement

It is the policy of Clemens Food Group to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. All employees are subject to a pre-employment screening process including a background check and drug screen. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to your recruiter.

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