Location: Powderly, KY
Salary: Depends on Experience
Description: A leading
Ready-to-Eat (RTE) food manufacturer is seeking a hands-on, technically strong
Maintenance Manager to lead a multi-shift maintenance organization in a high-volume facility. This is a high-visibility role overseeing all plant maintenance, refrigeration/PSM, electrical systems, and equipment reliability for a 325-350 employee operation.
If you're a decisive maintenance leader with deep technical expertise and a passion for uptime, safety, and continuous improvement - this role is built for you.
Compensation & Relocation - You can earn up to $130,000 total (salary + bonus) in your first year, depending on experience
- Strong benefits
- Relocation assistance provided
- Opportunity to lead a large, skilled maintenance team in a growing operation
Team You'll Lead You will manage
16 direct reports, including:
- 2 Maintenance Leads
- Maintenance Technicians
- Electricians
- Refrigeration Technicians
- PSM Coordinator
- Parts Coordinator
Maintenance operates across
3 shifts supporting a 2-shift production schedule.
What You'll Do - Lead, coach, and develop the entire maintenance team
- Schedule technicians to optimize PMs, work orders, and repairs
- Ensure compliance with personnel policies, QA standards, and plant procedures
- Maintain accurate equipment documentation and CMMS records (E-Maintenance)
- Oversee contractors, bid small projects, and manage installations
- Diagnose equipment issues and support root cause analysis
- Manage HVAC, boilers, chilled water, compressed air, electrical distribution, and RTE production equipment
- Interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical drawings
- Ensure safe, compliant contractor operations
- Align maintenance downtime with production needs and communicate outage plans
- Drive continuous improvement to prevent repeat failures
What You Bring - High School Diploma required; AS/BS preferred
- 7+ years of supervisory/management experience in industrial maintenance
- Food & beverage manufacturing experience required
- Strong knowledge of refrigeration or PSM
- Advanced CMMS experience (E-Maintenance strongly preferred)
- Strong PLC troubleshooting (programming a plus), VFDs, and 480V electrical
- Experience with boilers, HVAC, chilled water, compressed air, and utilities
- Thorough understanding of OSHA and safety standards
- Strong time-management, prioritization, and communication skills
- Understanding of GMPs in food manufacturing
Why This Role Stands Out - Lead a large, multi-discipline maintenance team in a high-volume RTE facility
- High autonomy and visibility with plant leadership
- Opportunity to modernize systems, improve reliability, and elevate maintenance performance
- Relocation support makes the transition seamless
If you're a technically strong, people-focused maintenance leader ready to make a major impact in Powderly, KY - this is your next move.
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