Maintenance Manager

Corporate Maintenance Manager

Gregory Packaging Inc. · Full-Time · Multi-Site (Travel Required) Initial focus: Aseptic Beverage Maintenance Systems

About Gregory Packaging

Gregory Packaging is a 4th-generation family-owned beverage manufacturer founded in 1922. We operate five facilities across the United States and are both a scaled co-manufacturer and a multi-brand beverage platform — home to SunCup, GLAS Water, and LockerBox. Aseptic and sustainable paper-based packaging is at the core of what we do, and we're investing heavily in the systems and talent that will carry the business through its next chapter of growth.

About the Role

We're building a corporate maintenance function from the system up — and we're looking for the leader to own it. The Corporate Maintenance Manager will design, implement, and continuously improve the maintenance framework across all five Gregory Packaging facilities, starting with our aseptic sterile juice operations.

This is a high-visibility role reporting directly to the Director of Operations. You'll have full authority to enforce maintenance standards across the network, govern the CMMS (MVP), mandate process changes, and approve maintenance-related spend. Site Maintenance Managers will have a dotted-line accountability to you alongside their direct report to Plant Managers.

If you've ever wanted to build the system instead of inheriting one — this is that role.

What You'll Do

Build and standardize the maintenance system

• Design and govern spare parts, consumables, and tooling systems across all sites
• Build Preventative Maintenance (PM) programs, asset structures, and execution standards from the ground up
• Own and govern the structure and usage of our CMMS (MVP)

Drive site-level execution

• Coach site maintenance managers and clear execution barriers — staffing, training, tooling, vendor support
• Intervene directly in underperforming sites on backlog, downtime, and KPI misses
• Standardize training methodology across the network: SME model, OEM partnerships, cross-training

Own performance and continuous improvement

• Investigate NDA part orders, major downtime events, and KPI variances down to root cause
• Update standards — PMs, inventory, training, tooling — based on what you find
• Operate on a simple principle: every failure produces a system-level improvement

What Success Looks Like

• PM backlog: zero tolerance for SPOF-related backlog
• Unplanned maintenance: target <20%, goal ~5%
• Inventory accuracy, NDA order frequency, and consumables budget adherence holding to standard
• Tool audit performance and maintenance labor utilization (% booked in MVP) trending up
• First 90 days: all aseptic PMs defined, loaded in MVP, site managers trained, SMEs engaged

What You Bring

Required

• Proven experience building maintenance systems in a multi-site manufacturing environment
• Strong background in PM program development and CMMS administration
• Track record of moving the needle on maintenance KPIs — not just reporting them
• Experience coaching and developing site-level maintenance teams

Preferred

• Food & beverage experience, ideally in aseptic or sterile processing
• Familiarity with SPOF analysis and asset criticality prioritization
• Background in structured training development (SME models, OEM coordination)

Why This Role

You'll be the architect of how Gregory Packaging runs maintenance across a five-plant network — with the authority, executive sponsorship, and capital backing to actually do it. Family-owned, long-term-oriented, and growing: we make decisions on a horizon that lets system builders see their work compound.

Responsibilities may evolve as organizational needs change.

Reports To: Director of Operations Direct Reports: Reliability Engineer; Corporate Maintenance Support Resources Travel: Multi-site, regular travel required