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.