Health Science Maintenance Leader | Remote/Hybrid

Nestlé Health Science; Leonia (NJ); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé Health Science is seeking a Category Maintenance Manager (Health Science) to lead the maintenance strategy, coach factories, and drive cost-effective execution across NAOOMI maintenance categories. This remote/ hybrid role prefers candidates near Bridgewater, NJ, and involves collaboration with Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, and Factory teams.

The role requires a mechanical/engineering degree, 6–7+ years in maintenance, and at least 1 year of people leadership, with strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Medical, Chemical, Electrical or Feed Engineering is required; Master’s degree a plus.
• 6-7+ years of relevant work experience in maintenance or factory engineering.
• 1+ years of people leadership experience including hiring, training, coaching.
• Excellent communication, organizational, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with SAP systems and end-to-end project management.
• Knowledge of CMMS.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, improve, and implement the Category Maintenance strategy to deliver category goals.
• Provide alignment and regular reporting of team performance and progress to Corporate Engineering, Technical & Production (T&P) Leadership, USA Zone Engineering HUB and Global Maintenance organizations.
• Ensure team objectives, priorities, and deliverables are aligned with the Technical & Production Market roadmap and KPIs.
• Ensure Category Maintenance team is meeting the factory and market needs for maintenance.
• Align Category strategy with Nestle Continuous Excellence implementation and global maintenance requirements.
• Ensure Factory visits are effective and focus on building competency.
• Ensure processes and systems are properly documented and communicated to factories.
• Evaluate and develop the team to more effectively deliver business results.
• Maintain expertise in all aspects of maintenance management and how they may apply to the strategy.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the market maintenance systems.
• Leverage internal and external benchmarking to validate strategy effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, and achieve best-in-class maintenance performance.
• Demonstrate and promote Nestlé Leadership behaviors, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and results-oriented execution.
• Build credibility and relationships with factory personnel to be regarded as an asset and expert in Maintenance execution, gaining alignment and support for the strategy by factory personnel.
• Build, improve and manage Maintenance and Innovation (M&I) budgets to deliver reliable equipment performance at optimal cost.
• Develop competencies in the category to support the M&I objectives aligned with Nestle global initiatives.
• Implement market processes and tools with examples for maintenance systems as needed.
• Implement market guidance documents to clarify issues in the market.
• Execute training materials to address needs in the market and provide clarity on market needs.
• Coach, implement, monitor and adjust the M&I strategy to drive sustainable business results for all Factories.
• Ownership of Maintenance system including the project management pillar, AMM and maintenance structures.
• Ensure programs and initiatives align with Safety, Environmental, and Quality systems/teams.
• Maintain a good understanding of all facilities including which lines, processes and utilities are critical to the business and where failure can have an unacceptable impact on the business, safety, environment or compliance with Federal, State and Local regulations and law.
• Champion, support and implement engineering tools such as PM, EM, AMM, EFCA, etc.
• Implement best practices related to maintenance, processes, methods, organization, staffing and skill levels.
• Validate implementations in Factories are in line with market systems and expectations of delivering results.
• Ensure factories have effective action plans to address the losses.
• Be proactive in investigating any issues relating to non-compliance, major breakdowns, and non-conformance with key performance indicators.

Skills

People leadership

Communication skills

MS Office proficiency

Data-driven

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Medical, Chemical, Electrical or Food Engineering

Master’s degree a plus

Tools

SAP

CMMS

Project management

Job description

Nestlé Health Science is seeking a Category Maintenance Manager (Health Science) to lead the maintenance strategy, coach factories, and drive cost-effective execution across NAOOMI maintenance categories. This remote/ hybrid role prefers candidates near Bridgewater, NJ, and involves collaboration with Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, and Factory teams.

The role requires a mechanical/engineering degree, 6–7+ years in maintenance, and at least 1 year of people leadership, with strong