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Maintenance Manager

Bunge
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Apr 2026
💰 $124,542/yr($113,220/yr$124,542/yr)

About the role

City : Kearny State : New Jersey (US-NJ) Country : United States (US) Requisition Number : 45125

 

 

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for Maintenance Manager. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities.  Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world.  Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way.  Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed. 
  
At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress.  Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work. Most importantly, in all we do we live our values: 


•    Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect 
•    Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient 
•    Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably 

 


A Day in the Life:
The primary role of the Maintenance Manager is to provide overall leadership and direction to the reliability function. This position is responsible to the Plant Manager and Regional Reliability Engineer for the safe, effective and efficient use of all manpower, materials, parts and other resources under their control as well as providing capacity, asset reliability and best life cycle cost to the operation. 

Under minimal direction, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for defining, implementing, and managing the systems, maintenance organization structure, and processes necessary to achieve and sustain the reliability mission. Through their efforts, a proactive culture which fosters open communication and trust that values reliability, efficiency and effective life cycle asset management is achieved.

 

What You'll Be Doing:
Facilitates excellent environmental, health and safety performance
Commitment to supply safe food, maintain a food safety culture within the site, continually improve the site's food safety management system; and comply with customer and regulatory requirements.
Develops and controls the maintenance budget that provides for optimized spending to achieve the agreed-upon capacity and asset reliability
Ensures Bunge standard reliability and maintenance work process are followed
Manages the reliability workforce, develops succession plans, skills assessments and training. 
Manages the spare parts warehouse to maintain critical spares, minimize necessary inventory and automate materials requisition functions.
Periodically benchmarks current performance with internal and external sources to identify opportunities for improvement
Provides input on change management studies and signs off on the changes identified.  Enforces Management of Change processes.
Ensures the reliability strategy is properly executed
Fosters a culture that does not tolerate equipment failures and seeks to understand and eliminate the causes using techniques such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Implements organizational structure, systems, tools and technologies that promote a proactive approach to maintenance
Ensures effective use and integration of standard corporate work order planning, scheduling and materials kitting
Develops, recommends and implements strategies for improving the reliability of the manufacturing processes.


Skills/Experience 
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or science technology, or equivalent work experience with 5+ years experience in reliability and maintenance positions required
Minimum Level 1 certification in oil analysis, vibration analysis, ultrasonic, thermography preferred
Minimum of 5 years experience in Failure Modes & Effect Analysis required
Prior experience with standard corporate maintenance work flow proces

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