Engineering & Maintenance Manager
About The Position
Are you ready to lead with impact? Join us as an Engineering and Maintenance Manager at our Wyoming, MI facility, where you'll be a key member of our Plant Senior Leadership Team. This on-site role places you at the heart of strategic decision-making, driving reliability, project management, and performance across our operations. You'll lead a high-performing maintenance team and collaborate across departments to deliver capital projects, implement reliability maintenance programs, and optimize plant processes. This is a dynamic opportunity to shape the future of our facility through innovation, leadership, and technical excellence. In this role, you'll foster a culture of collaboration, respect, and continuous learning. You'll champion lean manufacturing principles, oversee vertical project startups, and guide long-term capital planning-all while helping our team thrive and our operations remain sustainable and reliable.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering
- Demonstrated leadership in plant maintenance or equipment reliability within manufacturing, with a track record of driving operational excellence
- Experience managing large teams of both salaried and hourly employees
- Proven expertise in maintenance systems (e.g., CMMS), budgeting, and implementation of TPM, RCM, BDE, FMEA, and predictive/preventive maintenance strategies
- Proven capital project management and budgeting skills
- Strong stakeholder relationship-building capabilities
Responsibilities
- Capital Plan & Project Leadership- Plan, design, and execute, capital projects in line with facility's strategic plan, ensuring projects meet objectives, budgets, and timelines, leveraging both internal and third party resources Develop and own long-term capital master plan for the site.
- Team Development & Leadership - Lead and develop a diverse reliability maintenance team including supervisors, planner, stores clerk, multi-skilled mechanics, and electricians, while enabling upskilling and performance excellence.
- Lean Manufacturing & Innovation - Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities, eliminate waste, and introduce next-generation automation solutions. Lead our Technical Center of Excellence at the site level, while collaborating with corporate engineering resources to implement best practices from across the network and progress our site to the next phase in our lean journey.
- Strategic Planning & Scorecard Ownership - Represent maintenance and engineering in the site's strategic plans. Partner with Corporate Engineering to align technical strategies with plant goals and lead the Technical Center of Excellence to achieve key performance indicators.
- Driving Maintenance Reliability - Collaborate with maintenance and operations teams to increase equipment reliability while managing the maintenance parts budget for optimal performance. Lead the planning, scheduling, and execution of planned and predictive maintenance activities, using root cause analysis and problem-solving to mitigate issues.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, employee assistance program, short-term disability coverage, and long-term disability insurance.
- Also, voluntary income protection benefits such as supplemental life, accident as well as a 401(k) plan with company contributions is available.
- Part-time employees may have access to benefits on a pro-rated basis.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Industry
Food Manufacturing
