120 - PLANT - MANAGER, MAINTENANCE

About the role

With a rich multigenerational history and a reputation for creating and delivering products and services that delight our customers (so they can delight theirs), Galloway Company is a recognized leader in the dairy processing industry. This position leads the maintenance function for our manufacturing operation, overseeing preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment reliability, utilities, facilities, and maintenance projects. The role is essential to ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations while supporting food safety, quality, productivity, and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance team while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Plan and oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for production equipment, utilities, and facilities.
• Improve equipment reliability, uptime, and lifecycle performance using maintenance data, root-cause analysis, and reliability best practices.
• Manage maintenance priorities, schedules, work orders, labor, contractors, spare parts, and departmental budgets.
• Partner with production, engineering, quality, sanitation, safety, and other stakeholders to coordinate maintenance activities and minimize disruption.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with workplace safety, food safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead equipment installations, upgrades, shutdown work, and capital or continuous-improvement projects.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and use the computerized maintenance management system to improve planning, execution, and results.
• Provide leadership during equipment failures and participate in after-hours support as operational needs require.

Requirements

• Proven maintenance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of industrial equipment, mechanical and electrical systems, preventive maintenance, and reliability practices.
• Ability to lead teams, set priorities, manage change, and build effective partnerships across departments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to improve maintenance performance.
• Commitment to workplace safety, food safety, quality, and operational excellence.
• Flexibility to support occasional weekend, holiday, or after-hours work as needed.
• At least a trade school diploma, preferably a journeyman certification.
• 10+ years of manufacturing/maintenance experience.
• Progressive maintenance experience in a manufacturing setting, including experience leading employees and maintenance activities.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, and utility systems used in industrial operations.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and equipment reliability.
• Experience managing contractors, projects, budgets, and spare-parts inventory.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a highly regulated industry.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, decision-making, and influencing skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and computerized maintenance management systems.
• Experience in food, dairy, beverage, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Quarterly bonus program
• Wellness programs
• 401k Plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• STD/LTD
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan