Our client, a manufacturing company located in Vineland, NJ, is looking for a Maintenance Manager (Confidential Search) to join their team. What you will do in this role:

Team Leadership:

Lead, coach, schedule, and develop a multi-shift maintenance team; establish accountability, performance standards, training, and coverage.

Preventive/Predictive Maintenance:

Develop and improve PM programs, monitor completion and effectiveness, maintain equipment records, and use condition-monitoring techniques to prevent failures.

Reliability & Production Support:

Maximize uptime, respond to breakdowns, troubleshoot equipment, lead root-cause analysis, eliminate recurring failures, and support equipment installations and commissioning.

Food Safety & Sanitation:

Ensure maintenance practices comply with GMPs, HACCP, sanitation requirements, USDA/FDA regulations, and food-safety standards. Control contamination risks associated with maintenance activities.

Safety & Compliance:

Maintain a strong safety culture and ensure OSHA, LOTO, hot work, confined space, electrical, fall protection, and contractor safety requirements are followed.

Electrical, Controls & Automation:

Support troubleshooting and maintenance of PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, motors, sensors, control panels, and automated production systems.

Facility & Utilities:

Oversee reliability of boilers/steam, refrigeration, compressed air, HVAC, water/wastewater, electrical distribution, natural gas, fire protection, process utilities, infrastructure, and backup power systems.

Parts & Inventory:

Maintain critical spare-parts inventories, establish stocking levels, control usage, and manage supplier relationships.

Budget & Cost Control:

Manage maintenance spending, labor, parts, contractors, and outside services; identify cost-saving opportunities and support capital expenditure decisions.

Contractors & Vendors:

Manage service providers and vendors, obtain quotes, coordinate projects and repairs, and ensure compliance with site requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

Use downtime and maintenance data to improve reliability, efficiency, labor utilization, energy consumption, and throughput. Support Lean, TPM, 5S, and reliability initiatives. What you will bring to the role: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or related field, or equivalent experience. 5+ years of progressive manufacturing maintenance experience. 5+ years of maintenance leadership/management experience. Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills. Experience with PM/predictive maintenance programs. Knowledge of PLCs, VFDs, motors, sensors, pneumatics, hydraulics, and automated equipment. Strong knowledge of OSHA and LOTO requirements. Proven problem-solving, root-cause analysis, leadership, communication, and organizational skills. Ability to lead a multi-shift team and collaborate across Production, Quality, Food Safety, Sanitation, Engineering, and senior leadership.

What our client is offering:

A competitive salary and full medical/health benefits for the employee and their family. The chance to join a growing company with a great work environment. If you feel that this role would be a good fit for you, please submit your resume today in MS Word format - Don't forget to include your accomplishments and achievements.

Pay:

$120,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)

Experience:

Maintenance Manager:

5 years (Preferred) Food manufacturing : 5 years (Preferred) predictive maintenance programs: 5 years (Preferred)

PLC:

5 years (Preferred)

Work Location:

In person