Maintenance Manager

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Job Description Summary

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.

Essential Duties and 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

• 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)

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.

Additional Information: Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodation to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The employee occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-borne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme cold. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Eagle Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Eagle Foods also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Eagle Foods’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.