Maintenance Manager - Lincoln, NE

Nebraska Ag Connection; Lincoln (NE); Sur place; USD 125 000 - 144 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nebraska Ag Connection is seeking a Maintenance Manager for its Lincoln operation. This onsite role focuses on stabilizing the maintenance team, improving equipment uptime, and bringing structure to a fast-moving environment in a food processing setting.

The ideal candidate will lead maintenance personnel, oversee high-pressure processing equipment reliability, and drive preventive maintenance programs while coordinating with production and safety leadership.

Qualifications

• Five years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• Leadership of maintenance technicians or supervisors.
• Experience with production equipment and facility maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting and reliability skills.
• Record of improving a reactive operation.
• Ability to influence across departments.

Responsabilités

• Lead maintenance personnel for the site's primary production building.
• Maintain reliability and availability of processing equipment.
• Improve preventive maintenance, CMMS execution, spare-parts controls, and root-cause analysis.
• Support electrical, HVAC and other facility assets.
• Develop technicians through training and coaching.
• Reduce reactive maintenance and stabilize the team.
• Partner with production, safety, and plant leadership to resolve priorities.
• Manage maintenance projects, schedules and performance metrics.

Connaissances

Maintenance leadership

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Reliability engineering

Formation

Bachelor's degree preferred

Outils

CMMS

Ammonia refrigeration

Description du poste

Maintenance Manager - Food Processing

Lincoln, Nebraska | Onsite | Target base around $125K

A national food-processing and food-safety services company is hiring a Maintenance Manager for its Lincoln operation. This leader will focus on the facility's primary production building and the reliability of specialized processing equipment.

The company needs someone who can stabilize a maintenance team, improve equipment uptime and bring structure to a fast-moving environment. This role combines production-equipment maintenance, facility systems and hands-on team leadership.

What You Will Own

• Lead the maintenance personnel supporting the site's primary production building.
• Maintain the reliability and availability of high-pressure processing equipment.
• Improve preventive maintenance, CMMS execution, spare-parts controls and root-cause analysis.
• Support electrical, HVAC, powered industrial equipment and other facility assets.
• Develop technicians through training, coaching and regular floor presence.
• Reduce reactive maintenance and create a more stable, accountable team.
• Partner with Production, Safety and plant leadership to resolve competing priorities.
• Manage maintenance projects, schedules and performance metrics.

What We Are Looking For

• At least five years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• Previous leadership of maintenance technicians, leads or supervisors.
• Experience with both production equipment and facility maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting, preventive maintenance and reliability skills.
• A record of improving an unstable or reactive maintenance operation.
• Ability to influence departments and employees outside your direct reporting structure.
• Food, beverage, dairy, pet food, regulated CPG or pharmaceutical experience is preferred.
• Experience working within FDA, USDA, OSHA or similar regulatory requirements is valuable.
• High-pressure processing experience is highly desirable but not required.
• A bachelor's degree is preferred but not required.
• Ammonia refrigeration experience is not required.

Schedule and Compensation

• Primarily Monday through Friday.
• Some initial off-shift presence will be expected while learning the operation and building relationships.
• Additional compensation is provided when salaried employees are required to work weekends outside their normal schedule.
• Target base salary is approximately $125K. Additional flexibility may be available for an exceptional candidate with directly relevant experience.
• Candidates in the Lincoln and Omaha markets will receive priority. Limited sign-on assistance may be available for a nearby relocation.