Maintenance Manager

Job details

Posted 25 September 2026


Salary USD $140,000


Start date 28 September 2026


Location Lithonia


Job type Permanent


Discipline Engineering and Project Management


Reference 170041


Job Function Maintenance Manager


Our client, a leading manufacturer of disposable food packaging products, is seeking a Maintenance Manager to join their team in Lithonia, GA.


Summary

Manage engineering, reliability, maintenance and facilities operations in a facility containing multiple, complex operations with at least 200 employees with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities


+ Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.

+ Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development

+ Monitor KPI’s anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets

+ Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)

+ Provides management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities

+ Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document maintenance plans and performance metrics:

+ Failure, analysis, and corrective action procedure

+ Equipment capacities and risks; and

+ Other engineering solutions


+ Develop and implement of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance plans

+ Investigate root-cause for repetitive damage and failure rates, and calculate costs that do not meet or follow the maintenance plans

+ Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement

+ Lead training efforts to ensure maintenance technicians have needed resources for standard operating procedures (SOP’s), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits

+ Sets priorities for maintenance backlog and oversees long-range and short-range maintenance schedules.

+ Lead continuous improvement initiatives

+ Responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment

+ Ensures that maintenance standards are compliant with statutory health and safety regulations.

+ Direct teams to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed

+ Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements

+ Identify and recommend short- and long-term business strategies, understand and drive industry best practices

+ Develop and convey broad, advanced conceptual ideas, and propose and persuade several diverse stakeholders, including senior manufacturing leadership

+ Establish and communicate department goals

+ Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on applicable machinery, equipment and facility for cross functional projects

+ Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values


Leadership/Supervisory Responsibilities


+ Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of staff

+ Responsible for employee development, discipline, performance appraisals, and administration of policies

+ Review staff levels to ensure they are adequate, and resources are effectively allocated to meet short- and long-term objectives

+ Make recommendations regarding staffing decisions

+ Conduct or participate in the interview process with new candidates.


Education, Experience Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities


+ Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field and seven (7) years of engineering, facilities and/or machinery maintenance experience

+ Seven (7) years of progressive supervisory experience

+ Two (2) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability

+ Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable

+ Demonstrated project management experience by having successfully managed and completed a large, complex engineering project

+ Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products

+ Advanced knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models

+ Understanding of reliability tools and strategies including direct experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

+ Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products

+ Knowledge of business and management principles specifically as it relates to maintenance planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance

+ Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams, and to explain difficult situations

+ Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences

+ Ability to utilize and train employees of varying levels/skills on technology, processes and procedures

+ Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issue


We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; age; sex; sexual orientation; gender identity; religion; national origin; disability; veteran status; genetic information; or any other criteria protected by governing law.