Maintenance Manager

AppleOne Employment Services; Fresno (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Major medical benefits

401k plan

Job summary

AppleOne is recruiting an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, facility maintenance, and team development in a high-volume manufacturing setting. This hands-on role focuses on uptime, safety, quality, and continuous improvement while coordinating with operations leadership.

Responsibilities include planning maintenance across production equipment, monitoring KPIs, and handling budgets, spare parts, and capital projects to drive long-term

Qualifications

• 5+ years progressive industrial maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• 3+ years maintenance leadership or supervisory experience.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems and PLCs.
• Experience with CMMS and maintenance budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop maintenance technicians and supervisors while promoting safety and continuous improvement.
• Plan, schedule, and oversee preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance.
• Monitor downtime, uptime KPIs, and lead reliability improvement.
• Provide technical troubleshooting for mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and automation issues.
• Manage budgets, spare parts, vendors, contractors, and capital projects.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Problem solving

Communication

Budget management

Planned maintenance

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering

Industrial Maintenance Tech degree

CPM/CMMS knowledge

Tools

CMMS

PLC troubleshooting

MS Office Suite

Electrical systems

Job description

Job Summary

AppleOne is currently recruiting an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, facility maintenance, and maintenance team development. This direct hire opportunity is ideal for a hands-on maintenance leader who understands the pace of food and beverage production and can drive uptime, safety, quality, and continuous improvement across a high-volume manufacturing environment. The Maintenance Manager will play a key role in reducing downtime, improving maintenance systems, supporting capital projects, and ensuring compliance with OSHA, GMP, HACCP, SQF, sanitation, environmental, and quality standards. This is a strong opportunity for a maintenance professional who enjoys building teams, improving processes, and partnering closely with operations leadership. This role offers a collaborative plant environment with supportive leadership, strong teamwork, and the opportunity to make a visible impact on production performance, maintenance culture, and long-term equipment reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• - Lead, coach, train, and develop maintenance technicians and supervisors while promoting safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• - Plan, prioritize, schedule, and oversee preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance for production equipment, packaging systems, utilities, boilers, compressors, and facility infrastructure.
• - Monitor equipment performance, downtime trends, recurring failures, and maintenance KPIs to improve reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and eliminate chronic equipment issues.
• - Provide technical troubleshooting support for mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, automation, controls, and PLC-related issues.
• - Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, vendor relationships, contractors, equipment installations, upgrades, modifications, and capital improvement projects.
• - Maintain accurate maintenance records and ensure compliance with OSHA, LOTO, GMP, HACCP, SQF, food safety, sanitation, quality, and environmental requirements.

Compensation and Benefits

• - Salary range: $90,000 to $120,000 per year.
• - Job type: Direct hire.
• - Location: Fresno, CA.
• - Work environment: Manufacturing and food production environment.
• - Schedule expectations: Ability to work flexible schedules, including weekends, holidays, and occasional after-hours emergency response.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• - Lead maintenance operations for production equipment, packaging systems, utilities, and facility infrastructure.
• - Improve preventive maintenance programs, equipment uptime, downtime performance, and overall reliability.
• - Manage maintenance budgets, work orders, spare parts inventory, vendors, contractors, and capital projects.
• - Support safety, food safety, sanitation, quality, environmental compliance, audits, and regulatory inspections.
• - High School Diploma or GED required.
• - 5+ years of progressive industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• - 3+ years of maintenance leadership, supervisory, or management experience.
• - Strong knowledge of mechanical maintenance, electrical systems, PLC troubleshooting, hydraulics, pneumatics, utility systems, and automated manufacturing equipment.
• - Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, CMMS.
• - Strong budget management, project management, planning, scheduling, and maintenance documentation skills.
• - Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Excel.
• - Strong leadership, communication, organizational, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• - Ability to work in an industrial food production environment with exposure to machinery, utilities, equipment, and active production operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• - Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, Manufacturing Technology, or a related field.
• - Experience in food manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, dairy, bakery, or consumer packaged goods, CPG, environments.
• - Knowledge of SQF, HACCP, GMPs, sanitation programs, and food safety regulations.
• - Experience managing capital projects, equipment installations, commissioning, and maintenance improvement initiatives.
• - Experience establishing and tracking KPIs such as preventive maintenance completion rate, downtime reduction, work order backlog, MTBF, maintenance costs, and response time performance.

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

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