120 - PLANT - MANAGER, MAINTENANCE

With a rich multigenerational history and a reputation for creating and delivering products and services that delight our customers (so they can delight theirs), Galloway Company is a recognized leader in the dairy processing industry.

Join our team as a Maintenance Manager and help shape the future of Galloway. This position leads the maintenance function for our manufacturing operation, overseeing preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment reliability, utilities, facilities, and maintenance projects. The role is essential to ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations while supporting food safety, quality, productivity, and business objectives.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance team while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Plan and oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for production equipment, utilities, and facilities.
• Improve equipment reliability, uptime, and lifecycle performance using maintenance data, root-cause analysis, and reliability best practices.
• Manage maintenance priorities, schedules, work orders, labor, contractors, spare parts, and departmental budgets.
• Partner with production, engineering, quality, sanitation, safety, and other stakeholders to coordinate maintenance activities and minimize disruption.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with workplace safety, food safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead equipment installations, upgrades, shutdown work, and capital or continuous-improvement projects.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and use the computerized maintenance management system to improve planning, execution, and results.
• Provide leadership during equipment failures and participate in after-hours support as operational needs require.

What We're Looking For

• Proven maintenance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of industrial equipment, mechanical and electrical systems, preventive maintenance, and reliability practices.
• Ability to lead teams, set priorities, manage change, and build effective partnerships across departments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to improve maintenance performance.
• Commitment to workplace safety, food safety, quality, and operational excellence.
• Flexibility to support occasional weekend, holiday, or after-hours work as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Must have at least a trade school diploma, preferably a journeyman certification.
• 10+ years of manufacturing/maintenance experience.
• Progressive maintenance experience in a manufacturing setting, including experience leading employees and maintenance activities.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, and utility systems used in industrial operations.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and equipment reliability.
• Experience managing contractors, projects, budgets, and spare-parts inventory.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a highly regulated industry.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, decision-making, and influencing skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and computerized maintenance management systems.
• Experience in food, dairy, beverage, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.

Why Galloway?

At Galloway, our maintenance leaders are empowered to build capable teams, improve equipment reliability, and solve meaningful operational challenges. You’ll work alongside dedicated professionals who value teamwork, innovation, safety, and delivering high-quality products to our customers.

Galloway Company offers an attractive and competitive compensation and benefits package, which includes health insurance, quarterly bonus program, wellness programs, 401k Plan with company match, paid time off, life insurance, STD/LTD, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and much more.

TO APPLY :

If you are interested in applying for the Maintenance Manager position at Galloway Company, please follow the Apply button prompts to complete an online application and upload your resume.

Upon receiving this information, you will receive an invitation to complete a Culture Index Survey, this is required to move forward in the recruiting process. Resumes will be reviewed once the Culture Index Survey is completed.

Galloway Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Galloway Company does not discriminate in employment and no question on this application is used for the purpose of limiting or excusing any applicant's consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state or federal law. Galloway Company will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, race religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.