Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

TITLE: Maintenance Manager

LOCATION: On-Site, Avon, OH

COMP RANGE: $ 103,000 - 137,000/ year

Custom Culinary, a subsidiary of Griffith Foods, is hiring a Maintenance Manager to be responsible maintenance operations within Custom Culinary’s food manufacturing facility, ensuring equipment reliability, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted production. This role leads a team of skilled technicians to execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs that support safety, quality, and operational efficiency. The Maintenance Manager partners closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Safety teams to drive continuous improvement, minimize downtime, and maintain a clean, safe, and audit‑ready environment.

As a Maintenance Manager your responsibilities will include:

• Supervise maintenance personnel and set priorities for maintenance schedules.
• Plan and execute capital expenditure projects.
• Develop and manage maintenance procedures for production lines in a food manufacturing environment to meet or exceed budgeted performance.
• Maintain facility and manufacturing assets, oversee parts inventory, and manage spending, purchase orders, and invoice approvals.
• Establish and manage the departmental budget by reviewing financial statements and monitoring efficiencies, labor costs, and other expenses.
• Lead, train, and develop maintenance staff while setting clear direction and performance expectations.
• Conduct formal performance evaluations twice per year with ongoing feedback throughout the year.
• Ensure technical quality of maintenance work and hold team members accountable to established standards.
• Drive Maintenance, Reliability, and TPM initiatives with a focus on preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Coordinate and oversee work performed by outside contractors, ensuring safety and effective project management.

The Maintenance Manager position may be right for you if you:

• Act with urgency and accountability
• Take prompt action to address issues to minimize downtime and support uninterrupted production.
• Enjoy providing leadership, coaching and day-to-day guidance to a team.
• Find success in using a disciplined, data-driven approach to troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Strong Technical & Maintenance Expertise (Hands On + Systems Knowledge)
• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) experience
• Working knowledge of national, state, and local regulatory requirements in the areas of food safety, safety, environment and emergency management.
• This role is deeply technical. The manager must understand:
  • Electrical, mechanical, lubrication, and automation/PLC systems
  • Preventive & predictive maintenance
  • Maintenance procedures for production lines in a food manufacturing environment
  • CMMS usage and asset management
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or Facilities Management
• 7+ years’ experience in a similar managerial maintenance role, with strong technical, mechanical, maintenance and/or engineering experience
• Candidates must currently possess unrestricted authorization to work in the United States. Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

What will set you apart:

• TPM and Autonomous Maintenance experience is highly desired
• Experience with Lean or Six Sigma highly desired

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand and walk to communicate and listen effectively. This will require both office and plant floor environments.

Environmental Concerns

The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Dust and odor present in environment.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical, Rx, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts, EAP, Health Advocacy, Financial Planning, Parental Leave, Care.com, Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance, Education Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement, Safety Reimbursement, Lifestyle Spending Account, Group Life & AD&D, Voluntary Life Insurance, Short Term & Long Term Disability, 401(k) Plan with Company Match, PTO, Holiday’s & Leaves, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, Home & Auto Insurance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Long Term Care + Life Insurance & Legal Assistance.

In Office ROLES

This role is affiliated to the Avon, OH location, and candidates for this role need to reside within a commutable distance that location and will be required to come into that location. You may be asked to travel to other locations periodically for meetings.

Custom Culinary is a subsidiary of Griffith Foods and is a provider of branded and customer brand / “private label” soup bases, flavor concentrates, sauces, gravies, and other flavor enhancing products. We sell primarily into foodservice – restaurants, hospitals, schools, and cafeterias – as well as industrial – food manufacturers, assemblers, and commissaries – and specialty retail – grocery store foodservice, convenience stores, and meal kits. ​

At Custom Culinary, we aim to Be True to the Food™, and we are focused on authentically bringing flavor and excellent food, ingredients, and menu solutions to our customers. ​

Griffith Foods is a family-owned business, founded in 1919 and headquartered in Alsip, Illinois USA.

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.