Reliability & Maintenance Manager

As a leader and innovator in the snack food industry for over 50 years, J&J Snack Foods provides branded snack foods to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets across the U.S. Its products include such icons as SUPERPRETZEL, ICEE, and Dippin’ Dots along with other key brands like LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, The Funnel Cake Factory Funnel Cakes, and Hola Churros. J&J also has a strong presence in bakery providing cakes, cookies, and pies to some of the largest grocery and convenience retailers in industry. Our company continues to deliver record sales led by a talented team and a commitment to “Fun Served Here”.

• •Owns line uptime, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), and overall equipment reliability for the plant.
• •Leads the plant toward a more planned, proactive, and data-driven maintenance culture.
• •Develops and maintains preventive and predictive maintenance programs that improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
• •Leads root cause analysis and corrective action for recurring equipment issues, chronic losses, and breakdowns.
• •Partners with Production to address recurring downtime and improve day-to-day equipment performance.

• •Provides leadership and direction to maintenance supervisors and maintenance technicians.
• •Sets clear expectations for troubleshooting, work planning, and execution.
• •Develops technical capability across the team in electrical, mechanical, controls, refrigeration, and related areas.
• •Oversees contractor management and provides technical leadership for new equipment installations, line modifications, and capital projects.

• •Owns the plant’s spare parts strategy, including inventory accuracy, and critical spare availability.
• •Improves spare parts controls to reduce stockouts, emergency purchases, and excess or obsolete inventory.
• •Implements parts kitting and planning processes to better support scheduled maintenance work.
• •Maintains accurate asset hierarchy, equipment documentation, and maintenance records.

• •Uses Redzone to support work order management, PM compliance, downtime data analysis, technician accountability, and maintenance visibility.
• •Ensures Redzone data is accurate, timely, and used to identify trends, prioritize reliability work, and improve equipment performance.

• •Ensures maintenance work is completed in compliance with food safety, GMP, quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• •Reinforces safe maintenance practices, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), contractor safety, and other required safety procedures.
• •Supports ammonia/refrigeration compliance, documentation, inspections, and related maintenance requirements.
• •Maintains audit-ready maintenance records, including PM documentation, work orders, regulatory records, and contractor documentation.

• •Manages the maintenance labor and MRO budget with a focus on cost control, stronger planning, and reduced emergency spend.
• •Supports capital planning, equipment upgrade recommendations, and ROI justification for performance improvement projects.
• •Tracks and improves key maintenance performance metrics, including uptime, equipment-related OEE loss, PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, planned versus emergency work, spare parts accuracy and availability, maintenance cost per pound/case, safety incidents, and audit findings.

• •Serves as the main site partner and liaison for Support Center Engineering on capital projects, technical strategy, engineering standards, and enterprise initiatives.
• •Partners with Support Center Engineering on capital project planning, scoping, on-site execution, commissioning and startup of new lines, and major equipment upgrades.
• •Supports process engineering improvements that increase throughput, reduce waste, improve quality, and strengthen equipment performance.
• •Supports the integration of new technologies, automation, controls, and digital tools into the plant.
• •Partners with enterprise technical resources to support complex technical problem solving, long-term asset strategy, infrastructure planning, equipment standards and specifications, and best practice sharing across plants.
• •Ensures corporate initiatives are implemented effectively at the plant level and shares practical site feedback to improve enterprise engineering solutions.

• •Leads Maintenance Supervisors, Reliability/Engineering resources, and Maintenance Technicians.
• •Builds a team culture focused on craftsmanship, urgency, accountability, and pride in equipment condition.
• •Coaches supervisors and team members to plan work proactively instead of on