Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Hausbeck Pickles & Peppers

Saginaw, MI

Pay: $90,000-$100,000/yr

Shift: Full time

**Maintenance & Reliability Manager**

Hausbeck Pickle Company’s mission is to produce & deliver the highest quality food products with enthusiasm & integrity while striving for win-win partnerships with our customers and suppliers.

Hausbeck Pickle Company is now an employee-owned company (ESOP). While Hausbeck Pickle Company has always been a family-oriented environment, establishing an ESOP is a way to honor employees for their stellar work and empower and reward them through shared equity for striving towards an even higher goal.

Please consider joining a team whose vision is to share the FUN, FLAVOR & FREEDOM of our food products with everyone, making the world a tastier place!

**Job Summary:**

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is responsible for equipment reliability, maintenance operations, and continuous improvement across the facility. This position provides hands-on technical leadership while managing maintenance technicians, workforce planning, scheduling, preventive maintenance, equipment repairs, and maintenance resources.

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is expected to be a visible, floor-engaged leader who works alongside technicians, troubleshoots equipment issues, supports critical repairs, and ensures maintenance activities are executed effectively. This role combines direct technical involvement with responsibility for team performance, equipment uptime, maintenance costs, safety, and long-term reliability. The position partners with Production, Quality, Sanitation, and other departments to minimize unplanned downtime, improve equipment performance, optimize resources, and maintain food safety and regulatory compliance.

**Benefits –** We offer a comprehensive benefits package including BCBSM medical, dental, and vision coverage—with the company paying 85% of premiums. Additional benefits include company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance, employer HSA contributions, a 401(k) with company match, and 11 paid holidays.

**Salary:** From $90,0000/year

**Essential Job Functions:**

**1. Hands-On Leadership & Maintenance Management**

· Maintain a strong presence on the production floor, leading by example and working directly with technicians to troubleshoot, repair, and improve equipment as needed.

· Provide hands-on technical support during complex breakdowns, emergency repairs, planned shutdowns, equipment installations, and major maintenance activities.

· Oversee daily maintenance operations, including technician assignments, staffing, scheduling, overtime, shift coverage, and workload prioritization.

· Establish clear expectations and hold technicians accountable for productivity, repair quality, safety, attendance, and timely completion of work.

· Coach, train, and develop technicians through direct involvement, technical mentoring, cross-training, and performance management.

· Participate in hiring, onboarding, performance evaluations, and corrective action in coordination with Human Resources and plant leadership.

· Ensure technicians have the tools, parts, training, and resources necessary to perform their work safely and effectively.

· Conduct maintenance meetings and shift handoffs to communicate priorities, equipment conditions, staffing needs, and outstanding work.

· Balance administrative responsibilities with active involvement in daily maintenance activities and equipment conditions.

**2. Equipment Reliability & Engineering**

· Develop and implement strategies to improve equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and operating efficiency.

· Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automated equipment, including motors, drives, conveyors, pumps, PLCs, and HMIs.

· Lead root-cause analysis of recurring failures and significant downtime events; implement and verify corrective and preventive actions.

· Analyze equipment history, downtime trends, and failure patterns to identify improvement opportunities and eliminate repeat breakdowns.

· Evaluate equipment repairs, modifications, and replacements based on safety, performance, reliability, and lifecycle costs.

· Support equipment installations, commissioning, capital improvements, and technical projects.

· Partner with Production to identify equipment issues early, improve basic equipment care, and reduce avoidable failures.

· Maintain accountability for equipment performance and ensure temporary repairs are appropriately documented and followed by permanent solutions.

**3. Preventive Maintenance & Work Order Management**

· Own and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce equipment failures and unplanned downtime.

· Plan, schedule, assign, and verify maintenance work, ensuring work orders are completed accurately and documented appropriately.

· Manage maintenance backlog, labor allocation, parts availability, overdue work, and follow-up activities.

· Use CMMS platforms to track equipment history