Maintenance Shift Manager

River Point Farms is seeking a highly capable Maintenance Shift Manager to join our Plant Maintenance Team! The Maintenance Shift Manager supervises maintenance employees to ensure production, departmental, and safety goals are met in a continuous food manufacturing environment. This role guides and directs the workforce to meet customer expectations for product quality, food safety, and on‑time delivery while achieving company performance goals and maintaining a safe work environment.

Responsibilities:

Ensure all maintenance activities comply with GMPs, food safety programs, and applicable

USDA/FDA

regulatory requirements, and proactively identify, mitigate, and escalate risks to safety, quality, or compliance. Lead and enforce maintenance safety programs, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), contractor safety oversight, audits, incident investigations, and corrective action follow‑through. Supervise and coordinate maintenance staff across one or more shifts, including workforce planning, scheduling, work assignment, and daily execution, while serving as a liaison with operations and cross‑functional teams. Provide hands‑on leadership by assigning and prioritizing work based on production impact, safety, food safety, equipment criticality, and production forecasts, and supporting troubleshooting as needed. Exercise supervisory authority, including performance reviews, coaching, training, corrective action, and succession planning. Utilize the CMMS to manage work orders, preventive and predictive maintenance, inventory tracking, and maintenance documentation, and ensure team adherence to system standards. Monitor and report equipment performance and reliability metrics, including OEE, MTBF, and MTTR, and lead downtime analysis and root cause investigations using Lean and 5S principles. Oversee general facilities and grounds maintenance and coordinate quotes for parts and external services to support safe, reliable operations. Ensure production line uptime meets or exceeds established performance expectations and communicate daily priorities, issues, and escalations. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of High School diploma/GED, technical certifications, and relevant maintenance experience in food manufacturing or a similarly regulated environment. Minimum of 3 years of maintenance leadership experience in food processing or another regulated manufacturing environment. Agriculture or agricultural processing background highly desirable. Bilingual Spanish/English preferred. Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem‑solving skills. Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a fast‑paced, continuous‑operation manufacturing environment. Ability to perform all essential duties on first shift with extended hours, which may include afterhours, weekends and/or holidays, to meet business needs. Meet the physical requirements of the role including manual dexterity and be able to work outside in year-round weather conditions including heat, cold, rain, and snow. #ARI AgReserves, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Qualified applicants must be legally and lawfully authorized to be employed and work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship - AgReserves, Inc. is not sponsoring visas at this time. AgReserves offers medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance coverage. Additionally, employees can contribute to an FSA, and to an employer matched 401(K). Employees can apply for Tuition Assistance for continuing education purposes. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a discretionary profit-sharing bonus. For more detailed information please visit our benefits site: www.agreserves.com/benefits . AgReserves, Inc. complies with the current state minimum wage laws for all positions, regardless of the pay ranges posted.

Additional Benefits may also include:

Relocation Assistance