Maintenance Manager (Food Manufacturing)

Location: Davenport, Iowa, United States. Onsite role requiring frequent presence on the plant floor and support outside normal business hours, including occasional evenings, nights, weekends, shutdowns, and emergency responses.

New hire base salary: $104,200–$130,200 per year, plus eligibility for a performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global operates a food-manufacturing plant where the role supports safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

What you will do

• Lead the plant maintenance, reliability, utilities, and engineering agenda in accordance with EHS requirements, safe work practices, and applicable regulations.
• Govern ammonia refrigeration and Process Safety Management activities, including mechanical integrity, Management of Change, PHA, audits, procedures, training, and emergency preparedness.
• Protect food safety and product quality through hygienic maintenance, foreign-material prevention, approved lubricants, sanitary design, post-maintenance release, and coordination with Food Safety & Quality and Sanitation.
• Deploy the KHMS Maintenance, Reliability & Engineering pillar; maintain CMMS asset data and criticality rankings; and develop maintenance strategies.
• Build 52-week maintenance plans and detailed schedules, improve preventive and proactive maintenance through failure analysis and condition monitoring, and coordinate planned downtime and start-up readiness.
• Manage budgets, spare parts, contractors, OEMs, maintenance projects, OT security support, and the development of maintenance, utilities, planning, and technical teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible experience.
• Progressive leadership experience in maintenance or reliability within a high-speed manufacturing environment; food or beverage manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive or predictive maintenance, CMMS/SAP work management, root-cause analysis, equipment reliability, and maintenance cost control.
• Working knowledge of industrial mechanical, electrical, controls/automation, utilities, and facility systems.
• Experience leading people, contractors, budgets, and cross-functional improvement work in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.
• Ability to analyze operational and financial data, translate losses into action plans, communicate across organizational levels, and sustain execution routines.
• Ability to work in an active food-manufacturing environment with machinery, wet areas, temperature variation, noise, stairs, platforms, and required personal protective equipment.

Nice to have

• Experience with ammonia refrigeration and OSHA Process Safety Management or EPA Risk Management Program requirements.
• Experience with KHMS, TPM, WCM, or another integrated manufacturing excellence system.
• CMRP, CRL, PMP, Lean/Six Sigma, refrigeration/PSM, or a related technical certification.
• Experience in a unionized facility and with FSSC 22000, HACCP, and GMP food-safety systems.
• Experience with condition monitoring, asset criticality, reliability-centered maintenance, storeroom optimization, or capital project delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a unionized food-manufacturing environment with collaboration across Production, Sanitation, Food Safety & Quality, Finance, and OT/IT functions.
• Healthcare, prescription drug, dental, vision, paid time off, company holidays, leave programs, life and disability coverage, and 401(k) benefits.
• Employee assistance, family support, wellbeing resources, training, recognition, and learning opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements may vary by role, country, region, union status, and employment status.