Senior Manager, Technical Operations - Aseptic Processing

Treehouse Foods; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

TreeHouse Foods—Cambridge site in Maryland—is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Operations to lead and shape the site’s engineering and maintenance functions. You will drive capital planning, reliability programs, and safety initiatives while managing cross‑functional collaboration with internal and corporate teams.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in technical leadership within food manufacturing, strong project execution skills, and a background in sanitary design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive technical leadership, including maintenance/engineering leadership.
• BS in an Engineering discipline; advanced degrees or PM training a plus.
• Experience with AutoCAD, MS Project, SAP PM (or CMMS) is expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the site’s technical health and strategic vision.
• Manage capital projects and optimize capital efficiency at the site.
• Drive reliability programs, safety, maintenance costs, and equipment life extension.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and corporate technical groups.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and change leadership.

Skills

Technical leadership

Maintenance management

Engineering systems

Automation

Education

BS in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

MS Project

SAP PM

Job description

About Us

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

What You Gain

• Competitive compensation and benefits program
• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Technical Operations is a key member of the factory steering team reporting directly into the Plant Manager with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Corporate Technical Operations and Engineering team. This role serves as the Technical/Engineering functional leader for the site, responsible for leading and influencing the facility’s technical health, technical strategic vision, site capital plan, predictive and preventative reliability programs and processes, and the collective capability and skillset within the technical team. You will drive value for the Cambridge site, a Broth and Ready-to-Drink plant, by performing the following functions:

• Leading by example: Demonstrates a strong passion for Engineering/Technical excellence, particularly through a commitment to investing in the team’s individual capability and skills development.
• Leads the capital management process and vision at the site, not only driving capital efficiency and capital stewardship, but also ensuring flawless execution.
• Being a change maker: Flawlessly executes capital and non-capital enabled projects, working with local and corporate stakeholders.
• Drive’s capital efficiency by looking at alternative technical solutions and ways to improve costs to implement projects.
• Drives site efficiency by constantly looking at opportunities to improve safety, maintenance costs and productivity wherein the operating life of the equipment is extended, efficiencies are improved, and operating costs are lowered.
• Promotes and role models a “Zero Loss and Zero Breakdown” mindset.
• Being a change champion: Provides an environment that encourages creative solutions to technical problems, rapid reapplication of best practices, and a willingness to experiment and collaborate.
• Unlocks value and execution excellence with the team by bringing new ways of working and developing technical capabilities in the relentless pursuit of driving exceptional site performance.
• Being a dot connector: Works closely with the site team in building and executing against a master plan that enables improved performance.
• Works cross-site as well, engaging and collaborating with the other technical managers and corporate technical teams, to further grow collective capabilities across TreeHouse.

About You

Technical/Process Knowledge: Well versed in processing, filling, packaging, utility systems, etc., typically found in food manufacturing and breadth of experience in reliability systems and processes.

Excellent capital management and project execution skills, with a successful track record of leading projects upwards of $3 - $5MM and setting an investment strategy for a site.

Well-grounded in sanitary design principles, project chartering concepts, and processes deployed to ensure project startups are vertical.

Operational experience with TPM principles (i.e., pillars, systems, standard work) is highly desired. Prior pillar‑lead experience a real plus.

Style/Experiences: The candidate must possess excellent leadership, organizational and communication skills, along with the ability to effectively problem solve and work through conflicts.

Track record of successfully leading and building technically diverse teams.

Must be comfortable navigating through times of uncertainty and ambiguity. Must be collaborative and cross‑functional, hold high standards of excellence, and a passion for driving exceptional results in a way that is consistent with our organizational values.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive technical leadership inclusive of leading a Maintenance and Engineering department.
• BS in an Engineering discipline or a similar Technical degree; advanced degrees and/or formal project management training or certifications also a plus.
• Adept at navigating in traditional Engineering and Maintenance support programs such as: AutoCAD, MS Project, SAP PM (or equivalent CMMS).

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Job Type

Full‑time

Experience Level

8 years

Schedule

Monday to Friday

Experience

Food Manufacturing Management: 8 years (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate

Cambridge, MD: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location

In person