Maintenance and Warehouse Manager

Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery • Cabot, VT

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Cabot Creamery, a certified B Corp and the world's first dairy co-op to achieve this status, is seeking a full-time Maintenance and Warehouse Manager for its Cutting & Wrapping Plant in Cabot, VT. This role provides leadership for the Maintenance and Warehouse functions, focusing on safety, maintenance excellence, continuous improvement, equipment reliability, and inventory accuracy. The position involves leading a high-performing team, overseeing maintenance, spare parts, and warehouse operations, and collaborating with various departments to maximize uptime, improve efficiency, control costs, and support plant objectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 3+ years of leadership experience developing and managing technical teams.
• Experience with TPM, Autonomous Maintenance, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, and CMMS platforms.
• Strong mechanical, electrical, automation, troubleshooting, and project management skills.
• Warehouse personnel are responsible for safe equipment operation, inventory control, shipment verification, and cooler monitoring.
• Warehouse audits and food safety compliance are key responsibilities for warehouse-support functions.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Management, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Champion a safety-first culture within the maintenance organization and serve as a visible leader in all plant safety initiatives.
• Ensure maintenance activities are executed in compliance with all safety regulations, LOTO requirements, GMPs, food safety standards, environmental requirements, and company policies.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive maintenance strategy focused on equipment reliability, asset preservation, and operational excellence.
• Establish maintenance best practices that improve preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance effectiveness.
• Drive measurable improvements in equipment uptime, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), maintenance response effectiveness, and overall equipment performance.
• Lead root cause analysis activities and ensure sustainable corrective actions are implemented to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
• Drive full utilization and continuous improvement of the Maintenance Connection (CMMS) system as the primary maintenance management platform.
• Ensure all preventive maintenance activities, work orders, asset records, spare parts inventory, equipment history, and maintenance metrics are accurately maintained within MC.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement within the maintenance organization through the use of Lean Manufacturing, TPM, reliability-centered maintenance, and problem-solving methodologies.
• Facilitate improvement projects that reduce downtime, improve equipment performance, eliminate waste, increase labor efficiency, and reduce maintenance costs.
• Provide leadership for the development, implementation, and expansion of the plant's Autonomous Maintenance program.
• Partner with Operations to define equipment ownership standards, inspection routines, cleaning standards, lubrication requirements, and basic maintenance tasks.
• Develop and maintain a structured technical skills development program for maintenance technicians.
• Identify skill gaps and create training plans that strengthen mechanical, electrical, automation, controls, troubleshooting, reliability, and diagnostic capabilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through coaching, mentoring, certification programs, cross-training opportunities, and hands-on technical development.
• Lead, mentor, and develop maintenance supervisors, leads, planners, and technicians.
• Establish clear performance standards and accountability systems that drive ownership, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular reviews of maintenance performance metrics, department objectives, and employee development plans.
• Provide leadership and oversight of warehouse operations, including inventory accuracy, material flow, storage practices, and shipping/receiving activities.
• Ensure maintenance spare parts, critical components, and production supplies are effectively managed to support operational reliability and minimize downtime.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within warehouse operations focused on inventory accuracy, organization, efficiency, and cost control.
• Ensure warehouse operations comply with safety, food safety, GMP, SQF, regulatory, and quality standards.
• Develop warehouse personnel through coaching, training, accountability, and standard work processes that support safety, quality, and operational excellence.
• Lead efforts to improve warehouse organization, visual management, 5S practices, storage utilization, and overall material flow throughout the facility.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance teams to ensure traceability, inventory integrity, and food safety requirements are consistently maintained.

Benefits

• The company is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every qualified prospective and current employee.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed