Maintenance Manager
About The Position
CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Maintenance Manager for its pizza factory in Florence, Kentucky. The role leads maintenance, tooling, die operations, and thermoforming at the plant, ensuring maximum uptime, tooling integrity, and safe, efficient production through preventive maintenance and hands-on leadership across presses, dies, and supporting equipment. The Maintenance Manager serves as the site’s technical and reliability leader and oversees maintenance strategy and execution, team development, budgets, capital projects, storeroom performance, and external vendors and contractors. The role is accountable for human and food safety and for improving downtime, OEE, throughput, tooling life, scrap, and maintenance costs while supporting continuous improvement and off-shift operations.
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 ability, with strong project management and communication skills and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the site technical and reliability leader, accountable for tooling, dies, presses, and overall asset optimization.
- Lead strategic and tactical maintenance, including reactive, corrective, planned, and condition-based maintenance.
- Lead continuous improvement, EHS, and capital project initiatives.
- Ensure human and food safety performance and compliance with OSHA, FDA/USDA, GMP, and company standards.
- Drive improvements in downtime, OEE, throughput, tooling life, scrap reduction, and maintenance cost.
- Lead, develop, and deploy maintenance and tooling teams; ensure effective training, skills development, and workforce utilization.
- Manage maintenance budgets, capital projects, storeroom performance, and relationships with external vendors and contractors.
Benefits
- Competitive Total Rewards package
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Time off programs
- Retirement and financial offerings
- Eligibility for a 15% annual incentive bonus based on organizational performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
