Maintenance Manager

The Sterling Choice; Carlstadt (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in New Jersey is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead their maintenance operations. The role involves overseeing maintenance strategies, developing a skilled team, and implementing innovative practices to improve site efficiency. You will be supported to make significant upgrades and changes in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in food or beverage manufacturing.
• Experience with planning and scheduling maintenance.
• Motivated to improve site operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the entire maintenance function across all equipment.
• Implement preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
• Develop a high-performing maintenance team.

Skills

Planning

Scheduling

Team Development

Maintenance Performance Management

Education

Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering

Tools

CMMS tools

Job description

This range is provided by The Sterling Choice. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$130,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr

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Global FSQA and R&D Executive Search Consultant

Maintenance Manager

Food Manufacturing

Comp: $130,000 - $150,000 + Bonus

Are you a Maintenance Manager who’s sick of the firefighting and wants the chance to build something properly, for once?

This isn’t about keeping the lights on. It’s about stepping into a food processing site that’s stable, growing, and now looking to seriously level up its maintenance operation.

You’ll be given the tools, the autonomy, and the backing to get it right. From long-overdue upgrades to the systems and standards you’ve been dying to implement.

The context:

The New Jersey facility has been a workhorse for years. Around 100 people on site, supplying to a mix of national foodservice and retail customers.

This is a leadership role with teeth. You’ll lead the entire maintenance function, reporting directly into senior leadership, with a clear mandate: drive uptime, modernize systems, and develop your team.

You’ll own:

• Maintenance strategy across all equipment, plant utilities, and infrastructure
• Preventative and predictive maintenance programs (and finally get out of reactive mode)
• Developing a high-performing team (you’ll inherit 6 indirects under a Maintenance Supervisor)
• CMMS improvements, budget management, safety compliance, and lean-based efficiency initiatives

You’ll also have the credibility and influence to recommend equipment upgrades, spearhead capital projects, and contribute to broader operational planning. There’s real appetite for change here, especially from the top.

Who you are:

• An experienced Maintenance Manager (5+ years in food or beverage manufacturing)
• Comfortable juggling production support, engineering standards, and team development
• Strong on planning, scheduling, and using CMMS tools to manage maintenance performance
• Genuinely motivated to take a “good” site and make it great
• Ideally have a degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering - but experience wins here

You’ll be working in a company where red tape is minimal, egos are parked, and what matters is delivery, not PowerPoint. The leadership team has seen the corporate world. Now they’re building a leaner, more human business where decisions are fast and ideas are welcomed.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Services, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Meat Products Manufacturing

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