Maintenance Manager

Leslie Corporation; Mimaropa; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Leslie Corporation is seeking a highly driven Maintenance & Engineering Manager to lead plant reliability, automation advancement, and engineering excellence in a high-volume snack manufacturing environment.

You will own maintenance strategy, SCADA performance, and future MES readiness—driving uptime, OEE improvement, and smart capital deployment, while supporting GMP excellence and FSSC 22000 readiness. Join a growing facility with a strong focus on quality and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or related.
• Proven leadership in high-volume snack or FMCG manufacturing.
• Strong experience in packaging equipment maintenance.
• Experience with robotics for end-of-line systems.
• Strong experience with PLCs, instrumentation and industrial controls.
• Hands-on SCADA experience.
• Experience with CMMS platforms.
• Experience managing instrumentation and automation technicians.
• Budget ownership and CapEx management.
• Strong understanding of sanitary design in food manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) programs.
• Oversee maintenance of processing and high-speed packaging equipment, including robotics for case packing.
• Ensure high equipment uptime and reduction of unplanned downtime.
• Develop structured root cause analysis (RCA) culture.
• Ensure spareparts availability (inventory turnover, stock-out rate, and emergency orders).
• Maintain and improve SCADA systems and support MES integration.
• Lead automation upgrades and modernization initiatives.
• Drive full utilization of a CMMS.
• Use maintenance data for asset criticality ranking, spare parts strategy, and downtime analysis.
• Lead commissioning of new production lines.

Skills

Leadership

Packaging equipment maintenance

Robotics

PLC/Instrumentation

SCADA

CMMS

CapEx budgeting

Sanitary design

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SCADA systems

CMMS platforms

Robotics systems

Industrial controls

Job description

About the role

We are seeking a highly driven Maintenance & Engineering Manager to lead plant reliability, automation advancement, and engineering excellence within a high-volume snack manufacturing environment. This role is responsible for developing a modern, data-driven maintenance organization while supporting the plant's ambition toward GMP excellence and FSSC 22000 certification readiness. You will own maintenance strategy, automation projects, SCADA performance, and future MES readiness — driving uptime, OEE improvement, and smart capital deployment.

Key responsibilities

• Lead preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) programs

• Oversee maintenance of processing and high-speed packaging equipment, including robotics for case packing

• Ensure high equipment uptime and reduction of unplanned downtime

• Develop structured root cause analysis (RCA) culture

• Ensure Spareparts Availability (Inventory turn over, Stock out rate and Emergency order frequency for local and OEM parts)

• Maintain and continuously improve SCADA systems and support future MES integration

• Lead automation upgrades and modernization initiatives

• Drive full utilization of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

• Use maintenance data for asset criticality ranking, spare parts strategy, and downtime analysis

• Lead commissioning of new production lines

About you

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or related)

• Proven leadership experience in high-volume snack or FMCG manufacturing

• Strong experience in packaging equipment maintenance

• Strong experience with robotics (case packing / end-of-line systems)

• Strong experience with PLCs, instrumentation, and industrial controls

• SCADA systems (hands-on working knowledge required)

• Strong experience with CMMS platforms

• Experience managing instrumentation and automation technicians

• Budget ownership and CapEx management experience

• Strong understanding of sanitary design principles in food manufacturing

About us

We are a high-volume snack manufacturing facility in the food manufacturing (FMCG) industry, located at Leslie Canlubang Plant. We are a growing manufacturing facility with strong GMP and FSSC ambitions.

Benefits

• Lead modernization of a growing manufacturing facility

• Shape a plant with strong GMP and FSSC ambitions

• Drive automation and digital transformation

• Build a high-performing engineering culture

• Collaborative environment