Maintenance Manager

Eagle Foods, LLC • Waukegan, IL

7h • $115,203 - $136,800

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing the maintenance and repair of equipment, machinery, and facilities within an organization. This role involves managing a team of technicians, developing maintenance schedules, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, and optimizing maintenance processes to minimize downtime and improve operational efficiency. The Maintenance Manager plays a critical role in maximizing the lifespan of equipment, ensuring smooth production processes, and maintaining a safe working environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field preferred
• 10+ years of experience in food manufacturing, with at least 5 years in a maintenance leadership role
• Experience with Manager Plus (or similar CMMS) preferred
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives simultaneously
• TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) certification or demonstrated TPM experience a plus
• Strong mechanical and electrical aptitude with hands-on troubleshooting expertise
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Responsibilities

• Ensures facility and equipment meets all OSHA and Local, State, and Federal Regulations.
• Support the operations with implementation in an accident and injury-free work environment through leadership by example, modeling safe behavior, and supporting established safety initiatives, including GMP and housekeeping practices.
• Manages the reliability workforce, develops succession plans, skills assessments and training.
• Ensures compliance of air, water, sewage, or other form of pollutants per standards set by Federal, State, and Local governments.
• Supervise and direct maintenance staff on safe operations and enforce LOTO, Food Defense, Food Safety & Food Quality Plans, GMPs, HACCP Program.
• Develop and report weekly and monthly maintenance KPIs and connect in process results in the maintenance area (i.e. PM completion, % of schedule time as planned downtime for PM activity, maintenance labor utilization, mean time to repair, parts room inventory record accuracy, # of BDE activities completed) to output results (# of breakdowns, operating efficiency loss due to breakdowns)
• Coordinate the maintenance department’s use of root cause analysis tools to effectively identify the root causes of breakdowns and put in preventative measures to avoid repeatable failure modes.
• Lead a team of maintenance technicians in high-pressure troubleshooting of complex processing and packaging equipment (VFFS, extruders, and robotics), prioritizing rapid return-to-service while coaching staff on advanced diagnostic techniques to move beyond 'symptom-fixing' to true mechanical resolution.
• Drive long-term equipment reliability by facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on chronic failures and leveraging FMEA to push system transformation from firefighting cultures into a data-driven maintenance team that owns the lifecycle of the machinery.
• Supervise and direct the planning and scheduling of all work through the auditing and management of the PM and Work order modules in Manager Plus.
• Lead the deployment of the planning and scheduling workflow to a sustainable process with stakeholder support, driving increased performance in proactive work metrics.
• Drive methods and metrics to determine and increase the reliability of components, equipment and processes.
• Direct all maintenance spending toward critical asset reliability and preventative care, ensuring the facility meets production quotas without exceeding budgetary limits.
• Manage the parts room, spare parts inventory and Manager Plus system to ensure that the efficiency of planned and unplanned work are not negatively impacted by parts availability.
• Ensure maintenance and reliability standards comply with applicable regulatory and Eagle quality standards. Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal food safety guidelines, GMP’s and PMO requirements for facility.
• Continuously improve the operation by staying current with new technologies, consistent cost analysis, implementing sustainable best practices, identifying non-value-added elements.
• Work under general direction of plant manager in performing detailed reliability studies and calculations of component/system reliabilities. Foster environment of zero downtime and quality holds through cross-training functionality with packaging and process operators regarding autonomous maintenance and equipment ownership.
• Consider impact of costs on recommended action plans for avoiding/correcting problems during the design phase or remedial action for correcting reliability problems on installed equipment.
• Provide expert support during the automation of processes and deployment of maintenance standards to assure compliance to regulatory and/or Eagle requirements and provide development/training.
• Plan Capex and perform engineering research, design development, or manufacturing/process engineering assignments, including responsibility for major subsections of projects using general engineering practices influenced by the general theme of reliability principles.
• Develop and lead maintenance replacement capital project planning and execution.
• Maintains positive relations with all associates and ensures proper training is provided to meet all technical and soft skills required of the associates.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• This role offers a salary range of $115,203.00 – $136,800.00, along with eligibility for an annual performance bonus and, for certain leadership roles, Long-Term Incentive (LTI) opportunities.
• Eagle Foods provides a comprehensive benefits package featuring two medical plan options, two dental plan options, and two vision plan options, as well as company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Employees also receive a 401(k) with a 100% company match up to 5% and immediate vesting, plus access to additional voluntary benefits.
• Paid time off, personal days, parental leave, company holidays, and a variety of other programs further support the wellbeing of our team members and their families.

What This Job Offers

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