Maintenance Manager (Clifton)

Employment Type: Full-time

Available Positions: 1

Location : On-Site

Application Deadline: Oct 28, 2026

Summary

The Maintenance Manager will lead maintenance operations at a manufacturing facility. This individual will be responsible for ensuring equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, managing preventive and corrective maintenance programs, and leading the maintenance team.

Key Activities

• Own the site’s maintenance KPI scorecard — safety incidents, unplanned downtime, MTTR, MTBF, PM compliance, backlog, and maintenance cost — setting targets, driving corrective action when metrics miss, and reporting performance to plant and maintenance leadership on a regular cadence.
• Own day-to-day maintenance of all bakery production lines — mixing, makeup, proofing, ovens, cooling, lamination, and packaging — so scheduled production is delivered at target throughput, yield, and food-safety standards.
• Analyze downtime, failure, and CMMS data to identify systemic reliability issues and sponsor root cause and corrective action initiatives.
• Partner with the Maintenance Planner and reliability resources to mature the site across the four-tier model: reactive, preventive, predictive, and RCM
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable 4 Team Leaders and the technician workforce across shifts A–D, setting priorities and resolving cross-shift conflicts.
• Develop the technician bench with the Maintenance Trainer — own the skills matrix, training plan, and succession planning across the maintenance organization.
• Translate the site’s 24-month maintenance roadmap into department-level goals, staffing plans, and daily execution.
• Own safety performance within maintenance — LOTO, machine guarding, confined space, arc flash, and hot work — and lead incident investigations through to closure.
• Ensure all work meets GMP, HACCP, allergen-changeover, and SQF requirements; own food-safe repair practices including food-grade lubricants, no-loose-hardware discipline, and post-repair sanitation sign-off.
• Own the performance, upkeep, and regulatory compliance of refrigeration systems and facility/building infrastructure, including ammonia and refrigerant regulations (and PSM/RMP program elements) and applicable building codes.
• Review and commit to the weekly maintenance schedule developed by the Maintenance Planner, who reports to the Director of Maintenance and Engineering — validate priorities, assign crew capacity, and protect PM windows around the bake schedule.
• Partner with Production on changeovers, sanitation windows, and holiday bake ramps.
• Drive CMMS adoption and data integrity across the department to support KPI reporting and planning decisions.
• Manage the maintenance department budget — labor, contractor spend, and parts/MRO inventory — and provide input on capital projects.
• Own contractor and vendor relationships supporting maintenance execution, including scope, performance, and cost management.

Preferred Skills

• Food or beverage manufacturing experience
• Ammonia refrigeration experience, including participation in or ownership of a PSM program.
• SQF, BRC, or equivalent GFSI audit experience.
• Fleet or powered industrial truck maintenance experience, including OSHA PIT and DOT compliance programs.

Educations & Experience

• 10+ years of industrial maintenance experience, including 5+ years in a maintenance management role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Proven track record owning and improving maintenance KPIs — safety, downtime, MTTR, MTBF, PM compliance — in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and PLC/controls systems.
• Deep experience with CMMS platforms, including KPI dashboards, PM program build-out, and data-driven decision-making.

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Job ID: 8442