HiFyve is hiring a Maintenance Manager in Reading, PA!
Pay: $100,000-$135,000/year + discretionary bonus
Shift: Days | 7:00 AM-4:00 PM | Flexibility as needed
Location: Reading, PA
Benefits: Full benefits package
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance and reliability efforts in a fast-paced dairy processing environment. This position will oversee the maintenance team, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, equipment reliability, and plant utilities while supporting safe, efficient, continuous production.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and support the plant maintenance team
- Manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime
- Oversee maintenance and troubleshooting of dairy processing, filling, packaging, and utility equipment
- Support HTST pasteurization systems, separators, homogenizers, sanitary pumps, valves, valve clusters, and CIP systems
- Maintain fillers, conveyors, packaging equipment, and related production machinery
- Coordinate maintenance of ammonia refrigeration, boilers, compressed air, water, and other plant utility systems
- Lead electrical and mechanical troubleshooting and equipment repairs
- Plan maintenance schedules, prioritize work orders, and coordinate maintenance activities around production needs
- Drive reliability improvements, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for recurring equipment issues
- Ensure maintenance activities meet food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety requirements
- Manage maintenance parts, contractors, documentation, and departmental priorities
- Partner with production, quality, sanitation, and plant leadership to support operational performance
Qualifications
- Strong maintenance leadership experience within dairy, beverage, fluid food, or similar food manufacturing
- Dairy processing experience strongly preferred
- Experience with sanitary processing equipment, CIP systems, fillers, packaging equipment, and plant utilities
- Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting knowledge
- Experience leading preventive and predictive maintenance and equipment reliability programs
- Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and maintenance requirements in a regulated food manufacturing environment
- Strong leadership, planning, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to support a continuous production operation and respond to maintenance needs outside normal hours when necessary