Maintenance Manager

Schwan's Company • Florence, KY

6d • Onsite

About The Position

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Maintenance Manager at its pizza factory in Florence, Kentucky. The role leads maintenance, tooling, die operations, and thermoforming, ensuring maximum uptime, tooling integrity, and safe, efficient production through preventive maintenance and hands-on leadership across presses, dies, and supporting equipment. The position serves as the site’s technical and reliability leader and oversees asset optimization, maintenance execution, team development, budgets, capital projects, storeroom performance, and vendor and contractor relationships.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of progressive maintenance experience, including leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical experience.
• Strong expertise in metal forming, stamping, tooling, and die maintenance in a production environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop maintenance teams, manage multiple priorities, and support off-shift operations.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and PLC systems, including CMMS tools such as SAP.
• Problem-solving and change leadership skills, with project management, communication, and continuous improvement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the site technical and reliability leader, accountable for tooling, dies, presses, and overall asset optimization.
• Lead strategic and tactical maintenance execution, including reactive, corrective, planned, and condition-based maintenance.
• Lead continuous improvement, EHS, and capital project initiatives.
• Ensure human safety and food safety performance and compliance with OSHA, FDA/USDA, GMP, and company standards.
• Improve downtime, OEE, throughput, tooling life, scrap reduction, and maintenance cost.
• Lead, develop, and deploy maintenance and tooling teams, including training, skills development, and workforce utilization.
• Manage maintenance budgets, capital projects, storeroom performance, and external vendor and contractor relationships.

Benefits

• Eligibility for a 15% annual incentive bonus based on organizational performance.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Time off programs.
• Retirement and financial offerings.

What This Job Offers

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