Job Description

Maintenance Manager – Food Manufacturing

Location: Northvale, NJ
Schedule: Monday–Friday | 4:00 PM–1:30 AM
Employment: Full-Time | Onsite
Industry: Food Manufacturing

Lead the Maintenance Operation. Improve Reliability. Build the Team.

gpac is partnering with an established food manufacturer seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead plant maintenance operations at its Northvale, NJ facility.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on maintenance leader who understands production equipment, industrial automation, electrical/electronic systems, preventive maintenance, and equipment reliability and enjoys developing technicians while working closely with Operations and Engineering.

The Maintenance Manager will play a key role in keeping production running safely and efficiently while driving improvements in equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, and maintenance performance.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, train, and develop the plant maintenance team.
• Manage daily maintenance activities, work assignments, shop resources, and priorities.
• Oversee maintenance, repair, installation, and startup of production and facility equipment.
• Partner with Production, Operations, and Engineering to maximize equipment uptime and achieve production goals.
• Execute and continuously improve the preventive maintenance program.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, and Equipment Reliability.
• Drive effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) following equipment failures and recurring issues.
• Support full utilization of the CMMS, including accurate work orders and maintenance documentation.
• Coordinate outside contractors for equipment installations, repairs, and maintenance.
• Develop strong relationships with OEMs and equipment/service vendors.
• Maintain critical spare-parts inventory and appropriate min/max inventory levels.
• Lead daily maintenance follow-ups and improve communication between shifts.
• Generate end-of-shift maintenance reports.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, and development of maintenance technicians.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with GMP, sanitation, food-safety, OSHA, and company safety requirements.
• Enforce Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and safe maintenance practices.
• Respond to emergency equipment failures, facility issues, and major breakdowns as required.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in a manufacturing maintenance leadership environment, preferably supporting high-volume production equipment.

We're particularly interested in candidates with experience involving:

• Production and processing equipment
• Industrial automation
• Electrical and electronic systems
• Preventive and corrective maintenance
• CMMS systems
• Root Cause Analysis
• Equipment reliability
• MTBF / MTTR
• Spare-parts and inventory management
• Vendor and contractor management
• OSHA and LOTO
• GMP and food-manufacturing environments
• Maintenance technician development
• Cross-functional partnership with Production and Engineering

Food manufacturing experience will be highly valuable given the facility's requirements surrounding GMP, sanitation, food safety, and food-grade maintenance practices.

Why This Opportunity?

This isn't simply a position focused on reacting to breakdowns.

The Maintenance Manager will have an opportunity to influence how the maintenance organization operates—from preventive maintenance and reliability metrics to CMMS utilization, technician development, spare-parts strategy, shift communication, and root cause analysis.

You'll work directly with Operations, Production, Engineering, OEMs, vendors, and maintenance technicians to improve plant reliability while maintaining high standards for safety and food quality.

Interested?

If you're an experienced maintenance leader who enjoys developing people, solving equipment problems, and improving manufacturing reliability, I'd like to speak with you.

Apply today or contact:

Ted Taylor
Search Consultant | gpac
678-748-4482
ted.taylor@gpac.com

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.