Maintenance Manager - Food Processing Lincoln, Nebraska

Onsite | Target base around $125K

A national food-processing and food-safety services company is hiring a Maintenance Manager for its Lincoln operation. This leader will focus on the facility’s primary production building and the reliability of specialized processing equipment. The company needs someone who can stabilize a maintenance team, improve equipment uptime and bring structure to a fast-moving environment. This role combines production-equipment maintenance, facility systems and hands-on team leadership.

What You Will Own

• Lead the maintenance personnel supporting the site’s primary production building.
• Maintain the reliability and availability of high-pressure processing equipment.
• Improve preventive maintenance, CMMS execution, spare-parts controls and root-cause analysis.
• Support electrical, HVAC, powered industrial equipment and other facility assets.
• Develop technicians through training, coaching and regular floor presence.
• Reduce reactive maintenance and create a more stable, accountable team.
• Partner with Production, Safety and plant leadership to resolve competing priorities.
• Manage maintenance projects, schedules and performance metrics.

What We Are Looking For

• At least five years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• Previous leadership of maintenance technicians, leads or supervisors.
• Experience with both production equipment and facility maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting, preventive maintenance and reliability skills.
• A record of improving an unstable or reactive maintenance operation.
• Ability to influence departments and employees outside your direct reporting structure.
• Food, beverage, dairy, pet food, regulated CPG or pharmaceutical experience is preferred.
• Experience working within FDA, USDA, OSHA or similar regulatory requirements is valuable.
• High-pressure processing experience is highly desirable but not required.
• A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.
• Ammonia refrigeration experience is not required.

Schedule and Compensation

Primarily Monday through Friday. Some initial off-shift presence will be expected while learning the operation and building relationships. Additional compensation is provided when salaried employees are required to work weekends outside their normal schedule. Target base salary is approximately $125K. Additional flexibility may be available for an exceptional candidate with directly relevant experience. Candidates in the Lincoln and Omaha markets will receive priority. Limited sign-on assistance may be available for a nearby relocation.