Senior Maintenance Manager

Blount Fine Foods

Fall River, MA

Pay: $130,000-$150,000/yr

**Description**

Bringing our love of food to families for five generations! Blount Fine Foods is a family-owned and operated manufacturer, marketer, and developer of premium fresh prepared foods. We are an engaging team, bringing restaurant-quality products to America including single-serve grab-n-go fresh soups, mac & cheese, and entrées in grocery stores across the country, as well as for hot bars and restaurants. Help us create the finest food experiences including those with specialty certifications that include organic, gluten-free, and low sodium, among others. Join a proven team for growth, success, and a satisfying career!

The salary range for this opportunity is $130,000-$150,000/year.

**Summary**

The Senior Maintenance Manager is the plant reliability leader and the daily execution owner for maintenance at the Fall River food manufacturing facility. This role balances strategic asset-management leadership with strong floor presence. The successful leader will establish a CMMS-centered system for work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, analysis, and continuous improvement while personally engaging in daily production readiness, breakdown response, shift support, and cross-functional problem solving.

This is not a primarily administrative position and not a permanent “chief troubleshooter” role. The position is accountable for building a capable team and a repeatable reliability system that reduces recurring failures, improves planning work execution, protects food safety and employee safety, and increases productive pounds per scheduled day.

**Essential Duties**

• Daily operating involvement (35% – 45%)
• Visible on the floor; leads morning review; supports urgent failures; verifies startup and post-repair readiness; removes execution barriers.
• CMMS planning and execution (25% – 35%)
• Approved work is prioritized, planned, scheduled, kitted, executed, closed with quality data, and reviewed for backlog and repeat failure.
• Reliability strategy and improvement (20% – 25%)
• Top assets have reliability plans; PM/Pd.M. tasks are optimized; RCAs lead to permanent changes; risk and capital plans are current.
• People and capability (10% – 15%)
• Shift coverage, technical skills, controls/electrical depth, vendor knowledge transfer, and supervisor standard work improve measurably.

**CMMS Governance and Work Management**

• Own the plant maintenance workflow from notification through technical closeout, including request screening, priority assignment, approval, planning, scheduling, execution, completion, failure coding, labor and material capture, and effectiveness follow-up.
• Establish and enforce work-order standards: clear problem statement, asset hierarchy, failure mode, production impact, safety and food-safety risk, craft requirements, estimated hours, parts, parts, parts, parts, permits, procedures, post-work checks, and closeout comments.
• Lead weekly scheduling with Operations, Planning, Sanitation, FSQA and Engineering. Maintain a frozen weekly schedule with an agreed emergency-work rule and visible plan-versus-actual review.
• Build and manage a risk-based backlog using asset criticality, production loss, safety, food safety, recurrence, labor availability, parts status, and shutdown-window requirements.
• Develop dashboards for PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned-work percentage, emergency work, backlog age, work-order completion, wrench-time barriers, repeat failure, MTBF, MTTR, downtime, and data completeness.
• Ensure CMMS is the system of record for equipment history, BOMs, job plans, procedures, technical documents, vendor reports, calibration records, critical spares, warranties, and recurring work.

**Daily Plant Execution and Floor Leadership**

• Conduct an early-morning review of overnight events, staffing, open failures, PM results, startup readiness, safety concerns, food-safety risks, parts constraints, and the daily production plan.
• Maintain visible floor presence across shifts, particularly during startup, changeovers, critical maintenance, chiller or filler recovery, high-speed-line operation, and post-repair validation.
• Assign a single accountable maintenance owner to each plant-critical event and ensure containment, recovery, permanent corrective action, and verification are clearly separated.
• Coordinate response to equipment failures without allowing emergency work to consume the planned schedule unchecked. Escalate resource conflicts and protect the highest-value work.
• Require production-like testing after major maintenance, including correct product or test conditions, operating speed, upstream/downstream interfaces, controls, safety devices, quality checks, and operator acceptance.
• Provide daily and weekly updates that show what failed, business impact, current containment, next action, owner, due date, parts or support needed, and evidence required for closure.

**Reliability Engineering and Chronic