Maintenance Manager – Dairy Manufacturing

About the role

We’re partnering with a large, established manufacturer that is hiring a Maintenance Manager due to continued growth. This role leads a 13-person maintenance organization and is focused on improving equipment reliability, reducing downtime, strengthening preventive maintenance, and building a more proactive maintenance operation. Preferred leadership experience in dairy, milk, cheese, or closely related dairy processing manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead 2 Maintenance Supervisors, 1 Parts Manager, and the maintenance team
• Improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Reduce equipment downtime and recurring breakdowns
• Strengthen CMMS, MRO, spare parts, and maintenance planning
• Improve equipment reliability, safety, quality, and efficiency
• Lead maintenance scheduling and planned shutdown activities
• Support equipment upgrades and smaller capital projects
• Coach, develop, and hold maintenance employees accountable
• Partner with production, engineering, sanitation, and plant leadership
• Participate in on-call coverage as needed

Requirements

• Dairy, milk, or cheese manufacturing experience highly preferred
• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience
• Ideally 7-9 years of maintenance experience
• Maintenance management or supervisory experience
• Experience leading maintenance teams in a dairy processing plant
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and equipment reliability
• Experience with CMMS systems, MRO, spare parts, and maintenance planning
• Experience reducing downtime and improving equipment performance
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting knowledge
• Experience implementing maintenance process improvements and change
• SAP experience preferred
• Food safety, GMP, OSHA, and sanitation knowledge

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus available
• Relocation assistance available
• Position open due to continued growth
• Opportunity to lead a 13‑person maintenance organization
• Chance to improve and rebuild maintenance processes
• High visibility with plant leadership
• Stable dairy manufacturing environment
• Strong opportunity to make a measurable impact on reliability and downtime

Pay

• $100,000-$120,000 base salary
• 10% annual bonus

Schedule

Monday‑Friday, 1st shift; occasional off‑hours/weekends as needed; part of the maintenance on‑call rotation.