Maintenance Manager for Food Service Production Company

• Provide leadership and direction for maintenance and facilities operations at both locations.
• Develop maintenance priorities that support production, safety, food quality, and operational objectives.
• Establish preventive and corrective maintenance expectations.
• Prioritize maintenance resources according to equipment criticality and operational needs.
• Monitor recurring equipment issues and develop long-term corrective solutions.
• Establish standards for maintenance documentation, work orders, preventive maintenance, and equipment history.
• Promote continuous improvement in maintenance processes and equipment reliability.

The position is intended to have formal personnel responsibility. Lee Jacobs specifically identified hiring, coaching, discipline, terminations, and scheduling among the position's responsibilities.

• Recruit, interview, select, and onboard maintenance personnel.
• Train and develop maintenance employees.
• Establish clear expectations and provide ongoing coaching and feedback.
• Address employee performance and conduct issues.
• Administer disciplinary action when necessary.
• Make staffing and termination decisions in accordance with Taher policy and HR processes.
• Develop employee schedules to provide appropriate maintenance coverage.
• Evaluate staffing requirements and adjust resources to meet operational needs.

• Develop maintenance work schedules.
• Coordinate staffing around production requirements, planned maintenance, and special projects.
• Adjust schedules to support weekend maintenance requirements.
• Manage maintenance overtime and identify opportunities to complete required work more efficiently.

This directly reflects Lee Jacobs' expectation that the manager would write team schedules and adjust staffing to reduce overtime when work must be performed over weekends.

• Determine whether maintenance and repair work should be completed internally or outsourced.
• Evaluate the technical capabilities of the internal maintenance team.
• Coordinate and oversee outside service providers.
• Evaluate contractor performance, cost, responsiveness, and quality.
• Ensure outside contractors comply with Taher's facility and safety requirements.

The decision between internal repair capability and outsourced maintenance was specifically identified as a responsibility of the Manager role.

• Assess equipment condition, reliability, and long-term maintenance requirements.
• Identify equipment and facility improvement opportunities.
• Recommend capital improvement projects for both facilities.
• Assist in developing the operational justification for major repairs, replacements, and capital investments.
• Participate in equipment selection, installation, commissioning, and transition planning.
• Balance repair costs, equipment reliability, useful life, and operational needs when making recommendations.

Capital improvement recommendations for both facilities were explicitly included in the management scope described by Lee Jacobs.

• Establish and reinforce safe maintenance practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable lockout/tagout, machine guarding, electrical safety, food safety, and sanitation requirements.
• Ensure maintenance employees and contractors follow site safety requirements.
• Identify and address facility and equipment hazards.
• Partner with plant leadership on corrective actions involving maintenance or facility systems.

• Significant industrial or manufacturing maintenance experience, preferably in food manufacturing, bakery, packaging, or a comparable production environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance employees.
• Previous responsibility for employee scheduling and workforce planning.
• Experience coaching employees and addressing performance issues.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, controls, HVAC, plumbing, and facility systems.
• Demonstrated ability to determine whether work should be handled internally or by outside specialists.
• Experience managing vendors and contractors.
• Experience evaluating equipment reliability and maintenance requirements.
• Strong planning, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Leadership experience in a food-manufacturing or commercial-bakery environment.
• Experience developing preventive maintenance programs.
• Experience with CMMS platforms such as MaintainX.
• Experience supporting capital equipment installations or facility improvement projects.
• Experience managing maintenance expenses, parts inventories, and contractors.