Senior Maintenance Manager, Food Manufacturing

CJ Schwan’s; Florence (KY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

CJ Schwan's in Florence, KY is hiring a Maintenance Manager to lead all maintenance, tooling, dies, and thermos forming at our pizza factory. You will ensure maximum uptime, tooling integrity, and safe, efficient production through preventive maintenance practices and hands-on leadership across presses, dies, and supporting equipment.

The role requires 10+ years of progressive maintenance leadership, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience, and strong expertise in metal forming,

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience with progressive maintenance leadership.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience.
• Strong expertise in metal forming, stamping, tooling, and die maintenance within a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the site technical and reliability leader, accountable for tooling, dies, presses, and overall asset optimization.
• Lead strategic and tactical maintenance execution, including reactive, corrective, planned, and condition based maintenance, as well as continuous improvement, EHS, and capital projects initiatives.
• Own human safety and food safety performance, ensuring compliance with OSHA, FDA/USDA, GMP, and company standards.
• Drive improvements in downtime, OEE, throughput, tooling life, scrap reduction, and maintenance cost.
• Lead, develop, and deploy maintenance and tooling teams; ensure effective training, skills development, and workforce utilization.
• Manage maintenance budgets, capital projects, storeroom performance, and external vendor and contractor relationships.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS (SAP)

Project management

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience

Tools

SAP CMMS

Job description

CJ Schwan's in Florence, KY is hiring a Maintenance Manager to lead all maintenance, tooling, dies, and thermos forming at our pizza factory. You will ensure maximum uptime, tooling integrity, and safe, efficient production through preventive maintenance practices and hands-on leadership across presses, dies, and supporting equipment.

The role requires 10+ years of progressive maintenance leadership, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience, and strong expertise in metal forming,