Maintenance Manager

Are you ready to make a real impact and grow your career in an industry that nourishes the nation? Join us at SunTree Snack Foods in Phoenix, AZ, where exciting opportunities await you! Whether you’re looking to launch your career or take it to the next level, we offer the perfect platform to thrive in the dynamic world of food manufacturing.

At SunTree, we don’t just make snacks—we craft quality products that people across the country love. From sourcing the finest ingredients to producing and packaging private label nuts, seeds, dried fruit, mixes, and confections, our team plays a key role in delivering delicious, healthy snacks to households nationwide. With our products featured in grocery stores, clubs, and mass channels, you’ll feel a sense of pride knowing the snacks you helped create are enjoyed coast-to-coast.

Now’s the time to be part of our growth and success! Ready to start or accelerate your journey with us? Come be part of something bigger at SunTree Snack Foods!

We are looking for a Maintenance Manager to join our dynamic team at SunTree Snack Foods. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to our mission of inspiring, creating, and delivering high-quality snacks with exceptional service.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and meet the evolving needs of our customers and consumers.
• Ensure the highest standards of food safety, quality, and customer satisfaction are met.
• Uphold Trophy’s strong commitment to caring for customers, our community, and the environment.

Overview: Accountable for the Maintenance Department and staff within SunTree Snack Foods, LLC facility. Overall maintenance responsibility for the premises, production operations, and services. Responsible for the Maintenance Department staff, managing, planning/scheduling, and prioritizing maintenance requirements within an established budget. Develop and implement a best-in-class maintenance organization to generate cost reductions and efficiency gains.

Direct Reports include:

• Maintenance Buyer/Planner
• Maintenance Technicians

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Create and manage the annual maintenance budget according to established company guidelines.
• Ensure all building and operations equipment and systems are in optimum working order.
• Ensure all heating and cooling systems are operating and within designed parameters and in compliance with all current government standards and regulations.
• Establish and manage a proactive preventative and predictive maintenance program to prevent major breakdowns of building systems/operations machinery.
• Coordinate with other departments any maintenance or repair activity to maximize staff utilization and minimize machine downtime.
• Continually analyze and assess present machinery/systems capitalization and recommend execution of capital projects utilizing project management methodology for plant operating improvements; and using appropriate change management tools.
• Build and report on metrics related to best-in-class maintenance environments such as: Budget compliance (actual versus forecast); Plant-wide Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE); Maintenance costs as a percent of replacement asset value; Maintenance dollars per unit produced.
• Participate in capital investment projects, developing budgets, negotiating with vendors, and adhering to all regulatory compliance.
• Establish and maintain an inventory system to ensure adequate stock of equipment parts. Accountable for spare parts inventory strategy to provide a high availability of parts using industry KPIs.
• Build and report on indicators that will be used to evaluate the consistency in the performance of maintenance activities, including but not limited to: Man hours per work order; Daily schedule completion; PM completion; PM expense as a percentage of total maintenance expense; Percentage of maintenance rework; Percentage of overtime and total callouts; Percentage of emergency work, equipment downtime; Equipment capacity, utilization, running speed, or performance efficiency.
• Ensure clear communications with all operational staff regarding maintenance-related items.
• Responsible for the short and long-term maintenance employee requirements, maintenance requirements, and budget allocation. Establish daily/weekly distribution and prioritization of maintenance assignments for maintenance staff and trades.
• Responsible for following the process to create CAM work order (WO) requests directly from Jira, streamlining the process and improving efficiency using JDE.
• Manage, audit, and ensure maintenance of sprinkler/alarm systems and fire protection equipment are in good working order. Ensure system maintenance audit documents are available upon request.
• Direct management accountability for the Maintenance Department team. Hiring, training, performance evaluation, and performance management. Develop training and operating procedures as needed and/or directed.
• Promote a culture that builds, operates, and maintains plants that are operationally sound, safe, and reliable. Implement leading reliability excellence practices and aggressively raise the performance of the department by monitoring key performance indicators (i.e. equipment downtime, operator safety indexes, etc.).
• Accountable for investigating and reporting all work-related accidents and property damage as it relates to the Maintenance Department procedures. Responsible for reporting and acting upon safety concerns forwarded by employees and responding to maintenance items defined by safety audits.
• Accountable for promoting and administering Safety Policies and communicating safety related information and enforcing safe manufacturing procedures/practices for employees, contractors, subcontractors and ensuring SunTree Snack Food, LLC and third-party contractors to meet and exceed OSHA standards meet SunTree and governmental occupational and environmental standards. Ensure Maintenance employees follow all plant rules and OSHA. Train and orient new staff in the specific functions and tasks of their job, as well as all health and safety practices/ procedures/risks.
• Manage, prioritize, and complete safety work orders and communicate status to JHSC. Member of the SunTree Joint Health & Safety Committee (JHSC).
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Plant Manager.

Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering (mechanical, electrical) Preference for Mechanical Engineering degree, preferred.
• 10 years related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience within a manufacturing packaging machinery environment.
• 5 years of demonstrated skilled trades leadership experience within a 2-shift manufacturing environment. Proven communication skills: setting clear, reasonable expectations/managing/measuring team deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to provide and maintain a safe and effective working environment.
• Project development and CAPEX, plant project management experience.
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance training and experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with condition-based maintenance and Root Cause Failure Analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management System (JDE).
• Working knowledge of budgets, process reports, and other financial statements.
• Proficient with standard software products.
• JDE or other ERP experience required.
• Experience with BRC or food manufacturing facility an asset.
• Knowledge of HACCP regulations and GMP regulations.
• Amenable and understand that the role is an at-the-facility role and will require the flexibility of work schedule outside 9 to 5 hours where demands of the business/facility maintenance require such attention.
• Must read, write and speak English.

SunTree Snack Foods is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. SunTree Snack Foods provides equal opportunities in employment, promotions, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment to all qualified persons without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the applicable Federal and State laws.

Apply today and help us create snacks that bring joy and togetherness to our customers and consumers!