Maintenance Manager – Dual-Facility Food Production

Rising Staff; Georgia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rising Staff is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead two food manufacturing and fresh produce processing facilities. You will drive reliability improvements, oversee preventive maintenance programs, and ensure regulatory compliance across OSHA, GMP, SQF, HACCP and food-safety standards.

You will manage maintenance teams, coordinate repairs, and analyze downtime trends while collaborating with Production, QA and Operations to meet safety and production goals.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of maintenance leadership experience in food manufacturing or related industrial environment.
• Proven ability to lead maintenance teams in fast-paced, high-volume operations.
• Strong knowledge of electrical, PLC, hydraulics, pneumatics, refrigeration and mechanical systems.
• Experience with automated production equipment, conveyors, and heavy industrial systems.
• Knowledge of OSHA, LOTO, GMP, SQF/HACCP and food-safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily maintenance operations for production, packaging, and facilities across two buildings.
• Develop and manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime.
• Supervise, train, coach, and evaluate maintenance staff and leads.
• Troubleshoot and coordinate repairs for electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, refrigeration and automation systems.
• Oversee PLC troubleshooting, conveyors, packaging machinery, forklifts, HVAC, boilers, and plumbing.
• Ensure timely response to breakdowns and emergency maintenance needs.
• Analyze failures and downtime trends; implement corrective actions.
• Oversee installation, modification and commissioning of new equipment.
• Manage work orders, logs, inventory, vendors and budget controls.
• Collaborate with Production and QA teams to support goals and improvements.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

PLC troubleshooting

Electrical systems

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

Refrigeration

Mechanical systems

CMMS

GMP

OSHA/LOTO

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Rising Staff is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead two food manufacturing and fresh produce processing facilities. You will drive reliability improvements, oversee preventive maintenance programs, and ensure regulatory compliance across OSHA, GMP, SQF, HACCP and food-safety standards.

You will manage maintenance teams, coordinate repairs, and analyze downtime trends while collaborating with Production, QA and Operations to meet safety and production goals.