Maintenance Supervisor

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Supervisor for a direct hire opportunity in Hanford, CA within a fast-paced food and beverage manufacturing environment. This role is ideal for a hands-on maintenance leader who is ready to drive equipment reliability, improve preventive maintenance programs, reduce downtime, and support safe, efficient production across multiple food manufacturing plants.

The Maintenance Supervisor will lead a skilled team of maintenance technicians, planners, and parts personnel while partnering closely with Production, Quality Assurance, and plant leadership. This is a strong opportunity for a manufacturing maintenance professional who thrives in a highly regulated environment and wants to make a measurable impact on uptime, safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.

This organization offers a team-oriented production environment with supportive leadership, opportunities to mentor and develop maintenance talent, and a culture focused on safety, quality, accountability, and operational excellence. Candidates who enjoy problem-solving, leading from the floor, and improving systems will find this role both challenging and rewarding.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead daily maintenance operations, assign work orders, set priorities, and support maximum equipment uptime across food production operations.
- Supervise maintenance technicians, preventive maintenance planners, and parts room staff while coaching for safety, quality, and performance.
- Improve preventive maintenance programs using COGZ CMMS, ensuring timely completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual PM tasks.
- Lead troubleshooting and emergency breakdown response to restore production quickly and minimize unplanned downtime.
- Track and report maintenance KPIs, including PM compliance, work order completion, productivity, inventory usage, and equipment reliability.
- Support continuous improvement, 5S, equipment upgrades, installations, fabrication, major repairs, plant layout changes, audits, and planned shutdown activities.

Compensation and Benefits

- Direct hire opportunity.
- Salary range: $80,000 to $95,000 per year.
- Location: Hanford, CA.

How to Apply

- For more information on this opportunity and a confidential conversation,
please contact Mike Marmolejo at Show phone number or email your resume
to m m a r m o l e j o @ a p p l e o n e . com  

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Additional Skills

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Lead maintenance operations in a high-speed food manufacturing environment.
- Manage preventive maintenance programs, work orders, and CMMS documentation.
- Supervise maintenance teams and support equipment reliability, uptime, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Production, QA, and leadership to prioritize maintenance needs and support compliant operations.

- Associate’s degree, technical degree, or equivalent hands-on industrial maintenance experience.
- 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience, including 3+ years in a maintenance leadership or supervisory role.
- Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance, equipment troubleshooting, repairs, parts management, and maintenance planning.
- Experience using COGZ CMMS or similar computerized maintenance management systems.
- Working knowledge of OSHA, GMP, USDA, PMO, FSMA, and FSSC 22000 standards in a manufacturing or food production environment.
- Ability to lead safety training, promote proper PPE usage, and support accident, near-miss, and safety concern investigations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate effectively across Maintenance, Production, QA, and leadership teams.
- Ability to lead, coach, train, evaluate, and develop maintenance staff in a fast-paced industrial environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in food and beverage manufacturing, dairy, refrigerated foods, or other highly regulated production environments.
- Prior experience supporting audits, regulatory inspections, and food safety compliance programs.
- Background with 5S, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, equipment installation, fabrication, and planned shutdown coordination.
- Experience improving maintenance KPIs such as PM compliance, downtime reduction, work order completion, and technician productivity.