Manager Maintenance

About the role

We are seeking an experienced, accountable, and results driven Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance function at our Houston TX beverage manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for building and sustaining a high performing maintenance organization that operates with discipline, proactiveness, and a strong culture of reliability. The ideal candidate brings confirmed leadership experience in a food or beverage manufacturing environment, demonstrates end-to-end ownership of preventive and corrective maintenance programs, and communicates with clarity and purpose across all levels of the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role that requires active floor presence, strong cross functional collaboration, and the ability to drive measurable improvements in equipment reliability, downtime reduction, and team accountability from day one.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable a multi-shift team of production and building maintenance technicians through structured coaching, clear performance expectations, and consistent follow through.
• Own the facility's preventive maintenance program end to end — schedule development, task quality, execution verification, and continuous improvement based on real equipment performance data.
• Fully deploy and manage MaintainX CMMS across all work orders, PM schedules, asset records, and spare parts inventory.
• Enforce team-wide documentation discipline in real time.
• Maintain active floor presence during critical production hours.
• Support technician coverage gaps directly when needed.
• Drive root cause analysis on all recurring failures with documented corrective action plans, defined owners, and resolution timeframes.
• Manage all vendor and contractor relationships with active performance oversight from scope of initiation through completion and quality verification.
• Maintain accurate spare parts inventory with a proactive replenishment process that eliminates stockout-driven production delays.
• Collaborate daily with Production, Quality, Engineering