Maintenance Manager

Home Chef • Bedford Park, IL

11d • $100,000 - $110,000

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager is primarily responsible for leading, developing, and building the capabilities of the maintenance team while ensuring reliable operation of all equipment and facility infrastructure. This role establishes and enforces planned maintenance systems, safety and training standards, and budget controls, while providing technical leadership and accountability. The Maintenance Manager serves as the site point of contact for capital improvement projects and works closely with FSQA, Safety, and Production teams to support safe, compliant, and efficient operations.

Requirements

• General high school degree, or equivalent, (e.g. GED). Associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree or technical degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of facilities or industrial maintenance experience, with sufficient technical depth to lead, coach, and hold teams accountable for best practices.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated, successful people leadership experience, including hiring, training, coaching, performance management, and development of maintenance teams.
• Proven ability to build team capability, set expectations, prioritize work, and develop future leaders within a maintenance organization.
• Experience working in controlled or regulated environments (e.g., food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, or similar).
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and partner effectively across Maintenance, Production, FSQA, and Safety teams.
• Experience developing and managing maintenance budgets, including preventive maintenance programs, spare parts, and contractor spend.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with strong working knowledge of Excel for tracking, analysis, and reporting.
• Ability and willingness to be on-call and respond to facility needs after hours and/or on weekends as required.
• Demonstrated experience as a visible safety leader, including implementation and enforcement of safety programs such as Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Confined Space, Hot Work, Elevated Work, and Line Break procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manages the maintenance team day to day to ensure operations have what they need and the facility is properly maintained.
• Manages the CMMS and ensures work orders are closed in a timely manner.
• Prioritizes emergency as well as planned work orders to keep operations running and the equipment running reliably
• Develops Preventative Maintenance tasks to keep equipment reliable for all existing and future equipment
• Manages spare parts inventory for all equipment and maintenance needs
• Conducts trends of work orders to understand which assets are bad actors
• Acts as site point of contact for all capital improvement work and helps manage project progress when corporate project manager is not on site
• Trains all maintenance team members on how to complete PMs
• Trains all maintenance team members on safe work practices
• Plans day to day maintenance activities for the maintenance team and contractors
• Ensures all planned work is executed for the maintenance team and contractors
• Ensures all emergency work is prioritized and completed to prevent impact to operations
• Ensures all equipment that is worked on is released to sanitation before returning to the operations team
• Ensures all maintenance team members are trained and retrained on safe work practices (LOTO, elevated work, hot work, confined space, line breaks)
• Enforces safety standards and safe work practices for all Home Chef employees and contractors working on site.
• Ensures maintenance SOPs are developed and maintained up to date
• Ensures documentation on all maintenance tasks are compliant with Food Safety best practices to ensure we are audit ready
• Communicates with other plant leaders on required maintenance work that could impact operations or put team members at risk
• Communicates expectations to the maintenance team and leads by example
• Coaches maintenance team members on a daily basis
• Coaches operations team on the work order process to ensure work is getting resolved in a timely manner
• Manages work order completion on a daily basis
• Manage site maintenance budget
• Manages equipment uptime and reliability to minimize production impact

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
• 401k program
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees