Maintenance Manager Recruitment
No Fee Until You Hire
WHY THIS ROLE IS HARD TO HIRE
- Finding a Maintenance Manager with food and beverage manufacturing experience, strong equipment knowledge, and proven maintenance leadership can be challenging.
- Food and beverage facilities depend on reliable production equipment, utilities, refrigeration, packaging systems, and facility infrastructure. Therefore, employers need maintenance leaders who can reduce downtime while maintaining safe and efficient operations.
- Equipment failures, unplanned downtime, aging machinery, and maintenance backlogs can significantly affect production performance. Experienced maintenance managers help manufacturers improve equipment reliability, strengthen preventive maintenance, and respond effectively to critical breakdowns.
Brightway helps you find the right talent faster.
Brightway identifies Maintenance Managers with food and beverage manufacturing experience across preventive maintenance, equipment reliability, troubleshooting, maintenance planning, team leadership, and facility operations. In addition, we focus on candidates who can work effectively with production, engineering, quality, safety, and operations teams.
About the Maintenance Manager Role
Role Highlights
5-10+ Years
Maintenance & Equipment Reliability
Preventive Maintenance, Repairs & Reliability
Food & Beverage Manufacturing Facility
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Permanent
Manufacturing Equipment & Facility Systems
Maintenance Team Leadership
Equipment Reliability & Downtime Reduction
Maintenance & Operations Leadership
Reliability & Preventive Maintenance
Uptime, Safety, Reliability & Cost
What does a Maintenance Manager Do?
Lead Maintenance Operations
The Maintenance Manager oversees daily maintenance activities and ensures production equipment and facility systems remain operational and reliable.
Manage Preventive Maintenance
Develops and maintains preventive and predictive maintenance programs designed to identify potential equipment issues before they cause production disruptions.
Improve Equipment Reliability
Analyzes equipment performance and recurring failures to identify root causes and implement improvements that increase reliability and reduce downtime.
Manage Maintenance Teams
Furthermore, leads maintenance technicians and other personnel while coordinating schedules, training, work orders, contractors, and maintenance priorities.
Support Manufacturing Operations
Works with production, engineering, quality, and safety teams to resolve equipment issues, support projects, and maintain safe and efficient manufacturing operations.
Need a Maintenance Manager for Your Food & Beverage Manufacturing Operation?
Connect with experienced Maintenance Manager talent who can lead maintenance teams, improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, manage preventive maintenance, and support dependable manufacturing operations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities across food and beverage manufacturing operations.
- Manage maintenance personnel, work orders, schedules, contractors, spare parts, and maintenance resources.
- Monitor equipment reliability, downtime, maintenance performance, and recurring failures to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with production, engineering, quality, and safety teams to troubleshoot equipment issues and support manufacturing projects.
- Develop and implement maintenance strategies that improve equipment uptime, reliability, safety, and cost performance.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
Experience
5-10+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, manufacturing maintenance, equipment reliability, or a related discipline, preferably within food and beverage manufacturing.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline preferred. Equivalent maintenance leadership experience may also be considered.
Certifications
CMRP, Certified Maintenance Technician, Lean Six Sigma, electrical or mechanical certifications, or other relevant maintenance and reliability credentials can be beneficial depending on employer requirements.
CORE SKILLS
MARKET & COMPENSATION INSIGHTS
typical Salary Range
$90,000-$135,000
Performance Bonus
Experience Level
Mid-Level / Senior
Role Demand
High
Hiring Market
Nationwide
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