Maintenance Manager (food manufacturing)

Matern Staffing is hiring a Maintenance Manager (job id #2471) at a food manufacturing facility in Stafford, Virginia.

As a Maintenance Manager (food manufacturing) you’ll use your leadership and knowledge of mechanical workings to supervise teams through proactive maintenance schedules to ensure safe and reliable plant equipment and facility operation. You’ll ensure compliance with safety and codes and follow best practices to reduce incidents and positively impact production goals. Sure, some days might be challenging, but you’ll enjoy working with your hands to prevent and solve equipment problems.

This is a direct hire position with salary and benefits listed below. This is a physically demanding position requiring working in hot to cold environments and standing for long periods of time (sometimes from elevated areas). Your base location is in Stafford, Virginia but this position requires occasional travel to the OH and TX plants.

Relocation package is available!

Salary:

• $85,000-$110,000/yr 

Benefits:

• Paid Vacation (5 days after six months of employment, 10 days from 1-4 years of employment, 15 days after 5 years of employment)
• Sick Leave and Holiday Pay
• Medical, Dental, Life Insurance 
• Health savings account   
• 401(k) with 10% employer matching (after one year of employment) 
• Relocation package

What You’ll Do:

• Supervise and lead maintenance technicians, leads, and helpers on the safe and efficient operation of plant equipment and facility operations
• Execute inspections, repairs, modifications, and preventative maintenance of facility and food processing and packaging equipment
• Conduct regular inspections of the plant to detect and resolve problems related to equipment (e.g., HVAC, compressed air, boiler operation, water treatment filtration system, production lines, process security, wastewater treatment) and facilities
• Prepare reports and measure effectiveness of preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance programs/processes
• Respond to emergency calls across all areas of the facility
• Adhere to OSHA regulations, food safety policies, and work practices, environmental compliance, and LOTO in all work assignments
• Learn important building system functionality (e.g. electrical, fire) and OSHA, NFPA, NEC, and NETA (International Electrical Testing Association)
• Provide direction with Mechanical, Electrical, Pneumatic, Hydraulics, Plumbing, or controls
• Supervise staff inclusive of equipment and building training, continuing education, and safety compliance
• Develop SOPs and/or work from plans and schedules, drawings, and other written specifications, or verbal instructions

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Safety Management and Risk Management experience
• Excellent technical knowledge of equipment, products, and processes
• Strong background in HAACP, workplace safety, and SQF
• Good knowledge of PLC skills
• Hand-on work ethic and mechanical aptitude of equipment, products, and processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for relaying important machine and process information and collaborating with vendors, staff, and management
• Strong organization and attention to detail with great follow-through to ensure accuracy and execution
• Proficiently skilled in spreadsheets, databases, and word processing
• Collaborate effectively with teammates and stakeholders to anticipate roadblocks, resolve issues, and implement solutions

About our client:

For over 55 years, our client has been devoted to bringing happiness to the table by providing safe, comforting gourmet dishes. Through product development, production innovation, logistics perfection, high safety and quality standards, and customer satisfaction they produce ready-to-eat meals for convenience stores, including bento meal boxes, onigiri rice balls, and side dishes.

About Matern Staffing:

For over 55 years Matern Staffing has built relationships with businesses and job seekers to provide staffing solutions and job opportunities to the areas of Virginia, Maryland, and beyond. We believe that when employees and business partners succeed, families and communities thrive.

Matern Staffing is a V3 (Virginia Values Veterans) Certified Organization.

Matern Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.