Maintenance Manager (or Maintenance Lead - TBD depending on candidate)

PGP International; Evansville (IN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead their maintenance team in Evansville. This pivotal role focuses on optimizing equipment performance and ensuring compliance with safety and food standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in plant maintenance and a strong focus on continuous improvement. You will be responsible for managing budgets, leading a team, and implementing best practices to achieve operational excellence. Join a forward-thinking company that values safety, quality, and high performance, and make a significant impact on their operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in plant maintenance or engineering roles, ideally with leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of safety and food safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance team to ensure high performance and compliance with safety standards.
• Manage maintenance budgets and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Plant Maintenance

Project Management

Safety Compliance

Root Cause Analysis

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

PPM Systems

Condition Based Monitoring

Predictive Maintenance

Job description

Description

Job Title: Maintenance Manager (or Maintenance Lead – TBD depending on candidate)

Reports to: Site General Manager or Manufacturing Manager

Direct reports: Maintenance Technicians

Back up position: Maintenance Technician

Department: Operations

Work location: Evansville, IN

Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt

Job Description date: 5/1/2025

I - Job Purpose and Summary:

Reporting to the Site General Manager, the purpose of this role is to create, improve, lead, and optimize the PGPI Evansville maintenance team to achieve and maintain an equipment and facilities performance level recognized both internally and externally as “Best in Class”. The core competency of the role will ensure the proper preventative maintenance plan is developed and achieved.

This person will operate as part of the PGPI Evansville Operations Leadership Team, recruiting, developing, and coaching a team to create high level performance, continuous improvements and assist in capital projects as needed. The role will ensure that engagement and high levels of performance remain a priority through the ongoing operation of the site. The role will ensure high levels of leadership in HSE, Food Safety, Production and Maintenance Performance. The role will drive the site into exceptional high performance across the maintenance balanced scorecard- safety, quality, performance, cost and people. The role will ensure compliance to standards are built upon and improved year on year.

This is a working maintenance manager (or maintenance lead) role with the expectation that the role provides the required overall leadership of the site maintenance department and program while also contributing to the day-to-day maintenance activities, PMs, repairs, etc. and working alongside the maintenance technicians.

II - Key Accountabilities:

1. Heath, Safety & Environment: This role will be responsible and accountable for the HSE and Food Safety performance of the maintenance team through the adherence to all PGPI’s Health & Safety and Environmental policies and procedures as well as to all relevant OSHA regulations to achieve ZERO workplace incidents and injuries. The role will ensure that maintenance work, equipment improvements, capital work and site facilities are always maintained to the correct safety, food safety, environmental and work standards. Ensure that a physically safe working environment exists and that the standards set out in the HSE, and Food Safety manuals are met. Ensure teams follow the correct procedures, policies, and documentation requirements on a day-to-day basis.

2. Quality & Food Safety: This role will ensure that improvement plans will deliver year on year benefits in the areas of safety, environment, customer complaints, Good Manufacturing Practices, hygiene, factory standards, manufacturing compliance, process and packing improvements and work standards of the site. Responsible for ensuring that all Maintenance policy standards and systems operate in accordance with the PGPI food safety plan standards, BRC and other related standards, customer requirements and any ABF requirements. These policies and systems must be reviewed at agreed intervals. Accountable and responsible for maintenance and facilities non-conformances and incident management including the tracking, root cause analysis and completion of the appropriate corrective actions.

3. Maintenance: This role will manage and lead the Site Maintenance Team, setting industry leading standards on quality maintenance work, condition-based monitoring, critical asset assessments, equipment availability, support capital project management and facilities management while driving exceptional cost control. The role will drive a Plant Uptime and Maintenance Availability culture providing support to all functions.

4. Cost: Forecasting, budgeting, delivering, and reporting on the Maintenance Budget for PGPI Evansville Operations. Accountable for understanding and planning for the required resources to run the maintenance plan for PGPI Evansville and forecasting a budget (including spare parts) accordingly. Accountability for delivering to the agreed budget forecast and continuously identifying and executing cost reduction opportunities.

5. Continuous Improvement: Understand, implement, and review maintenance and plant availability systems associated with the site infrastructure and production environment to the agreed safety, technical and work standards. Ensure KPI’s are monitored and presented to allow identification of improvement plans. Leading and owning the evaluation of risks prior to the introduction of and establishment of controls of a new maintenance practice, process or equipment installation. Ensure the maintenance team KPIs are improved upon year over year.

6. Leadership: Ensuring the Maintenance team are meeting as a minimum the PGPI corporate HSE and Food Safety compliance training, education, ongoing yearly reviews and engagement standards. Ability to manage change through the agreed systems and effectively pass information down the line to concerned teams for smoother execution. Ensure all employees are skilled, their knowledge/education/practice are regularly tested/reviewed, and any deviations dealt with in a timely manner. Educate and provide expert maintenance knowledge to the team and ops teams as well as the management team. Delegate and allocate responsibilities efficiently to manage initiatives and projects from end to end. Involvement in the selection process for reports within the team. Owns the training and development needs of individuals within the team. Understands and identifies technically related training requirements at all levels in the business to ensure that all employees are properly equipped to undertake their roles. Ensure any changes contribute towards delivering a flexible operation that is well equipped to respond to changing demand levels and customer mix.

7. Training & Development: Participate in all trainings related to the job in order to gain knowledge/skills/abilities needed for exceptional performance. Together with Site General Manager, prepare personal development plan in order to identify areas for improvement.

III - Internal and External Contacts:

Internal: HSE, Quality, Production, Warehouse, HR and Finance teams. Head office teams in Woodland.

External: Customers, 3rd party auditing bodies, ABF and external finance audit bodies

Requirements

IV - Job Requirements (Required and Preferred):

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in engineering or any technical related similar degree (preferred but not required)

Related Experience

· Minimum experience of 10 years in a plant maintenance and/or engineering role (ideally some experience as a maintenance lead or manager but not required)

· Food manufacturing experience

· Working knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems

· Familiarity in drafting and understanding blueprints and schematics

· Strong safety core compliance experience – LOTO, confined space, electrical safety, dust management, hot work, permits, ARC Flash.

· Project management experience

Competencies

· Thorough understanding and working knowledge of safety legislation, food safety legislation and legal compliance

· Internal auditing ability

· The personal presence and professional credibility necessary to have an immediate impact with the site teams

· Operates quickly, thoroughly and focuses on driving the right actions

· Ability to operate successfully in a fast-changing environment

· Ability to operate across functional boundaries

· Continuous Improvement Focus: A strong bias towards actively seeking ways to improve plant performance and methods of operation

· Problem solving: A focused, pragmatic approach to solving problems. Able to use root cause analysis to identify, assess and address root causes for failures.

· PPM systems

· Condition based monitoring

· Asset criticality assessments

· TPM, RCM, Planning/Scheduling, Predictive & Preventative Maintenance

· Qualified electrical skills (preferred but not required)

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

· OSHA

· Food safety certifications

Language(s)

· Fluency in English - required

· Fluency in Spanish – preferred, but not required