Job Description

Location: Bergen County, NJ
Salary: $115,000–$140,000 + Benefits
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 4:00 PM–1:30 AM

A growing food manufacturer is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead second-shift maintenance. This hands-on role requires strong knowledge of production equipment, industrial automation, electrical systems, preventive maintenance, and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance technicians and daily shift activities.
• Oversee equipment maintenance, repairs, installations, and startups.
• Partner with Production and Engineering to improve reliability and throughput.
• Manage preventive maintenance and improve MTBF, MTTR, and equipment reliability.
• Lead root-cause analysis and troubleshoot electrical, electronic, and automated systems.
• Manage contractors, OEM relationships, and critical spare parts.
• Ensure effective CMMS use and work-order documentation.
• Hire, train, and develop maintenance technicians.
• Enforce LOTO, OSHA, GMP, sanitation, and food safety requirements.

Qualifications

• Maintenance leadership experience in food, beverage, or complex manufacturing preferred.
• Strong knowledge of automated production and packaging equipment.
• Industrial electrical/electronic and automation experience.
• Strong preventive and corrective maintenance background.
• Experience leading maintenance teams.
• Knowledge of CMMS, KPIs, RCA, and spare-parts management.
• Experience with robotics, freezers, fillers, mixers, ovens, conveyors, packaging equipment, or similar automated machinery is highly valuable.

Why Join?

• $115,000–$140,000 + benefits
• Monday–Friday, 4pm-1:30am
• Highly automated food manufacturing environment
• High-impact leadership role with the opportunity to improve reliability, systems, and team performance

Occasional weekend and emergency coverage required.

For confidential consideration, contact:

Alana Seddon
gpac – Growing People and Companies
Phone: 785-783-6703
Email: alana.seddon@gogpac.com

All inquiries are confidential.

Keywords

Maintenance Manager • Maintenance Supervisor • Food Manufacturing • Industrial Maintenance • Preventive Maintenance • CMMS • MTBF • MTTR • RCA • Industrial Automation • Electrical Maintenance • Robotics • PLC • Packaging Equipment • LOTO • OSHA • GMP

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.