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Maintenance Manager

E.A. Sween Company

Eden Prairie, MNFull-time$97–154K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$97–154K/yr
Location
Eden Prairie, MN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Maintenance Manager leads and develops maintenance personnel across two production facilities, driving proactive preventive and predictive maintenance and continuous improvement. The role oversees maintenance budgets, contracts, vendor relations, and capital project support, while collaborating with Operations and other facilities. It also emphasizes safe, reliable equipment, food safety, and compliance with applicable regulations and Good Manufacturing Practices.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Preventive MaintenancePredictive MaintenanceTroubleshootingRoot-Cause AnalysisContinuous ImprovementLean ManufacturingKaizenVisual Systems6SGembaSix SigmaFood ManufacturingFood SafetyFDA/USDA RegulationsOSHABudget ManagementMicrosoft OfficeCMMSLeadershipMaintenance ManagementManufacturingInfluencingCoachingProblem StructuringProcess AnalysisData Synthesis

Qualifications

3+ Years Maintenance LeadershipManufacturing Industry ExperienceFood Industry ExperienceBachelor's in Engineering5+ Years Maintenance LeadershipHigh School Diploma or Equivalent

Full job description

Job Duties

Description

Role Summary:

The Maintenance Manager will be responsible to lead, motivate, and develop a team of mechanics and support personnel to drive losses out of our systems, while leveraging Continuous Improvement tools, improving individual skills, and enhancing teamwork within the organization. The manager will also drive a proactive maintenance approach, leveraging predictive and preventative maintenance techniques, and utilize maintenance software to support the operation. The position will collaborate with other facilities to build strong relationships and improve maintenance systems in support of the broader Operations team.

Compensation: This position is classified as Grade 16, with a full pay range of $97,417.80 to $154,486.70 annually. Final pay will be determined by your experience, skills, internal equity, and available budget.

Competencies:

PREVENTIVE/PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

Implement a world-class, preventive/predictive maintenance framework and best-practices across 2 production facilities (main plant in Eden Prairie, MN; new plant in Annandale, MN)

Work with Maintenance Planner to ensure timely execution of Preventative Maintenance and other work orders

Maximizing the maintenance teams' operating efficiency, trouble-shooting, root-cause investigation, countermeasure implementation, preventive/predictive maintenance activities while contributing to internal projects as well

Oversight of maintenance contracts and vendor relations

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT/LEAN INITIATIVES

Foster a collaborative culture with the Operations team focused on implementing sustainable improvements to maximize machine uptime/Overall Equipment Efficiency and continuous improvement of maintenance practices and fundamentals.

Develop department KPIs and utilize the data from Asset Essentials (CMMS) and Redzone (Operations Management tool) to improve department effectiveness (including safety, reliability, productivity and quality)

LEADERSHIP

Provide direct supervision and coaching/development to 17 - 20 Maintenance personnel direct reports across 2 facilities

Hire, train, coach and review work of maintenance mechanics to ensure the maintenance program is being accomplished in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner.

BUDGET MANAGING

Ownership of maintenance budgets

Support capital project development and execution

SAFETY

Participate in safety related meetings and training. Cooperate with all aspects of the Safety Program.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Tackles and solves frequent problems that can arise in a typical workday. Identifies a certain problem or situation and then finds the best way to handle the problem and get the best solution. Able to sort things out even when the prevailing conditions are not right.

DELEGATION

Has the ability to effectively and efficiently re-assign tasks and give authority to the right employees, to help facilitate quick and easy work results, avoid wastage of time, optimize productivity, and ensure responsibility and accountability on the part of employees.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Participate in safety related meetings and training.

Cooperate with all aspects of the Safety Program.

Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.

Enforce safety policies and procedures (both in-house and regulatory) to decrease the potential for employee injuries on the job.

FOOD SAFETY

Assures team members are following Good Manufacturing Practices to ensure we produce safe quality food.

Work with senior management to ensure all corrective actions from all audits are completed and reviewed.

Ensures the company actively maintains the facility and prioritizes repairs to the facility and equipment based on food safety risk to product or process.

Comply with food safety regulations, and current Good Manufacturing Practices to result in the delivery of safe food products.

Required Qualifications

Min. 3 years of hands-on maintenance leadership experience, leading a team and executing maintenance initiatives

Manufacturing industry experience required - Food industry experience strongly preferred

Preferred Qualifications

B.S. in Engineering with 5+ years with hands-on maintenance leadership experience

Lean manufacturing experience

Influencing and coaching skills

Ability to structure ambiguous problems, analyze complex processes, synthesize data and results, and drive toward insight and solutions

Able to identify significant deviations from the operating plan and budget and work with site leaders to identify corrective actions using appropriate continuous improvement tools (kaizen, visual systems, 6S, gemba, six sigma, LEAN, etc)

Proficient knowledge of food manufacturing, food safety, FDA/USDA, and OSHA

Budget creation and management experience

Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and experience with CMMS

Qualifications

Education

Biz-Manager (preferred)

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

E.A. Sween Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer/M/F/Veteran/Disability

Minimum Education Required

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Minimum Experience Required

3 - 20 years

Shift

First (Day)

Number of Openings

1

Public Transportation Accessible

Yes

Veterans Encouraged to Apply

No

Physical Required

Yes

Drug Test Required

Yes

Compensation

$11.41 / Hourly

Postal Code

55344

Job Type

Full Time

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

MAINT007022

Job Benefits

Not specified

How this job compares

Set against the 1,139 open Maintenance Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$97–154K/yr
  • US median$100–135K/yr593 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $126K, is 9% above the US median midpoint ($116K) — in the middle half of Maintenance Manager salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 24 open Maintenance Manager jobs in Minnesota and 1,139 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Maintenance Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (886 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 468 of the 1,139 open Maintenance Manager jobs (41%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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