Maintenance Manager — Food Processing & Equipment Uptime

Get Fresh Produce; Bartlett (IL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Paid time off

Job summary

Get Fresh Produce in Bartlett, IL is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead the maintenance department, implement preventive maintenance programs, and minimize production disruption.

You will coordinate with Operations, Sanitation, Quality, and Production to keep equipment running, respond to breakdowns, and manage spare parts and budgets to drive uptime while upholding safety standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience in food processing
• 2+ years of maintenance leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience implementing, improving, or managing a preventive maintenance program
• Strong mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, conveyor, packaging, and troubleshooting knowledge
• Reading equipment manuals, electrical drawings, and schematics

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance department, including maintenance technicians, mechanics, contractors, and outside service providers
• Develop, implement, and sustain a formal preventive maintenance program using UpKeep or equivalent program
• Build equipment asset lists, PM schedules, work orders processes, parts tracking, and maintenance history records
• Partner with Operations, Sanitation, Quality, Food Safety, and Production leadership to schedule maintenance with minimal disruption to production
• Ensure reliable operation of fresh-cut processing equipment, conveyors, packaging equipment, scales, metal detectors, refrigeration systems, compressors, pumps, motors, electrical panels, and facility utilities
• Respond to equipment breakdowns, troubleshoot root causes, and implement corrective actions to reduce repeat failures
• Manage maintenance priorities across production, sanitation windows, changeovers, facility repairs, and capital projects
• Support food safety, GMP, HACCP, SQF or GFSI-related programs by ensuring equipment and facility conditions meet regulatory and customer requirements
• Maintain compliance with OSHA, lockout/tagout, confined space, electrical safety, machine guarding, and company safety policies
• Manage spare parts, critical inventory, vendor relationships, contractor work, service agreements, and repair budgets
• Train maintenance team members on troubleshooting, PM completion, documentation, safety procedures, and proper use of the maintenance-tracking program
• Use maintenance data to track downtime, PM completion, work order backlog, repeat failures, repair costs, and equipment reliability trends
• Recommend equipment upgrades, rebuilds, replacements, and capital projects that improve uptime, safety, sanitation, labor efficiency, and product quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Complex problem-solving ability
• Leadership and relationship-building skills
• Resourceful, innovative, and safety-focused approach
• Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Maintenance planning

Education

5+ years industrial maintenance (food)

2+ years leadership

Preventive maintenance programs

Reading electrical schematics

Tools

UpKeep

MaintainX

Fiix

eMaint

SAP PM

MVP Plant

Job description

Get Fresh Produce in Bartlett, IL is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead the maintenance department, implement preventive maintenance programs, and minimize production disruption.

You will coordinate with Operations, Sanitation, Quality, and Production to keep equipment running, respond to breakdowns, and manage spare parts and budgets to drive uptime while upholding safety standards.