Maintenance Manager

Signature Brands LLC • Ocala, FL

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About The Position

The Maintenance Manager leads maintenance operations across a multi-site food manufacturing environment, ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of production equipment and facilities. The role maintains and improves preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs; manages maintenance budgets, costs, spare-parts inventory, and tools; and ensures maintenance work complies with food safety, health, environmental, and food-manufacturing sanitation requirements. The manager works closely with production, quality, and engineering teams, responds to equipment and facility issues, oversees capital projects and expenditures, and develops maintenance staff and department practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in industrial or food manufacturing maintenance.
• At least 2 years of experience in a supervisory or management role.
• Ability to regularly stand and walk throughout manufacturing and facility areas.
• Ability to occasionally climb stairs and ladders and work from elevated areas to inspect equipment and facilities.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and automated systems.
• Experience successfully managing large projects.
• Ability to lead teams, manage performance, and communicate effectively across departments.
• Proficiency in MS Office programs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and advance preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to minimize equipment downtime and optimize production efficiency.
• Manage maintenance budgets, control costs, and maintain inventories of spare parts and tools to prevent production delays.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with food safety, health, and environmental regulations, including food-manufacturing sanitation standards.
• Implement initiatives to enhance maintenance efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve equipment reliability.
• Work with production, quality, and engineering teams to support operational goals and coordinate maintenance schedules.
• Respond promptly to equipment breakdowns and facility issues to minimize production interruptions.
• Develop and implement department policies, procedures, and methods.
• Manage and develop maintenance staff through selection, orientation, training, succession planning, performance management, evaluation, coaching, and discipline.
• Foster continuous improvement and technical proficiency among maintenance staff.
• Oversee capital projects and expenditures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager