Maintenance Manager

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

Job Description Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing the maintenance and repair of equipment, machinery, and facilities within an organization. This role involves managing a team of technicians, developing maintenance schedules, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, and optimizing maintenance processes to minimize downtime and improve operational efficiency. The Maintenance Manager plays a critical role in maximizing the lifespan of equipment, ensuring smooth production processes, and maintaining a safe working environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures facility and equipment meets all OSHA and Local, State, and Federal Regulations.
• Support the operations with implementation in an accident and injury-free work environment through leadership by example, modeling safe behavior, and supporting established safety initiatives, including GMP and housekeeping practices.
• Manages the reliability workforce, develops succession plans, skills assessments and training.
• Ensures compliance of air, water, sewage, or other form of pollutants per standards set by Federal, State, and Local governments.
• Supervise and direct maintenance staff on safe operations and enforce LOTO, Food Defense, Food Safety & Food Quality Plans, GMPs, HACCP Program.
• Develop and report weekly and monthly maintenance KPIs and connect in process results in the maintenance area (i.e. PM completion, % of schedule time as planned downtime for PM activity, maintenance labor utilization, mean time to repair, parts room inventory record accuracy, # of BDE activities completed) to output results (# of breakdowns, operating efficiency loss due to breakdowns)
• Coordinate the maintenance department’s use of root cause analysis tools to effectively identify the root causes of breakdowns and put in preventative measures to avoid repeatable failure modes.
• Lead a team of maintenance technicians in high-pressure troubleshooting of complex processing and packaging equipment (VFFS, extruders, and robotics), prioritizing rapid return-to-service while coaching staff on advanced diagnostic techniques to move beyond 'symptom-fixing' to true mechanical resolution.
• Drive long-term equipment reliability by facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on chronic failures and leveraging FMEA to push system transformation from firefighting cultures into a data-driven maintenance team that owns the lifecycle of the machinery.
• Supervise and direct the planning and scheduling of all work through the auditing and management of the PM and Work order modules in Manager Plus.
• Lead the deployment of the planning and scheduling workflow to a sustainable process with stakeholder support, driving increased performance in proactive work metrics.
• Drive methods and metrics to determine and increase the reliability of components, equipment and processes.
• Direct all maintenance spending toward critical asset reliability and preventative care, ensuring the facility meets production quotas without exceeding budgetary limits.
• Manage the parts room, spare parts inventory and Manager Plus system to ensure that the efficiency of planned and unplanned work are not negatively impacted by parts availability.
• Ensure maintenance and reliability standards comply with applicable regulatory and Eagle quality standards. Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal food safety guidelines, GMP’s and PMO requirements for facility.
• Continuously improve the operation by staying current with new technologies, consistent cost analysis, implementing sustainable best practices, identifying non-value-added elements.
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