Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

This role is part of our Omnium business, a loyal partner in the manufacturing of crop protection, adjuvant, and plant nutrition products.

The Maintenance Manager leads the maintenance, reliability, janitorial, and facility-support functions for the Omnium Saint Joseph manufacturing facility. This role is accountable for safe execution, equipment reliability, disciplined work management, preventive and predictive maintenance, regulatory and process-safety maintenance requirements, facility cleanliness, contractor performance, and control of maintenance and janitorial spending.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and hold accountable maintenance leads, planners, technicians, janitorial staff, contractors, and assigned facility-support personnel; establish expectations for safety, quality, performance, staffing, training, and follow-through.
• Own the CMMS-based maintenance work-management process from request review and prioritization through planning, scheduling, execution, commissioning, documentation, and closeout; sustain a rolling four-week schedule and fixed Week Zero plan aligned with Operations.
• Direct preventive, predictive, calibration, inspection, and mechanical-integrity programs; use equipment history, condition data, OEM guidance, and root-cause analysis to reduce downtime, repeat failures, urgent work, and production loss.
• Provide visible leadership for lockout/tagout, permits, line breaks, confined space, hot work, contractor safety, contamination prevention, janitorial chemical safety, and safe return to service; stop or suspend work when unacceptable risk is identified.
• Manage urgent breakdown response, equipment stabilization, recovery planning, opportunity maintenance, testing, commissioning, and communication with Operations and plant leadership without bypassing safety, quality, permit, or documentation requirements.
• Oversee spare parts, tools, shops, technical records, asset condition, mobile equipment, janitorial supplies, facility cleaning standards, and contracted services so resources are available, controlled, and fit for use.
• Monitor maintenance and janitorial performance, budget, forecasts, backlog, schedule attainment, PM compliance, downtime, reliability, work-order quality, and facility condition; communicate risks early and lead practical continuous-improvement and asset-replacement actions.
• Required Experience/Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial technology, maintenance management, manufacturing, business, or a related field; an equivalent combination of technical education and directly relevant industrial maintenance leadership experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in industrial maintenance, reliability, engineering, manufacturing, or a related technical environment, including at least three years leading maintenance, planning, janitorial, facility-support, contractor, or multi-craft teams.
• Experience with CMMS work management, preventive and predictive maintenance, planning and scheduling, breakdown response, contractor management, spare parts, facility services, and maintenance budgeting.
• Working knowledge of industrial safety systems, mechanical integrity, calibration, contamination prevention, root-cause analysis, commissioning, and reliability improvement.
• Strong leadership, technical judgment, organization, communication, and follow-through, with the ability to prioritize equipment risk, coordinate downtime with manufacturing operations, manage cost trade-offs, and hold teams accountable.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint and applicable ERP, CMMS, inventory, and reporting systems; ability to work across shifts and respond to urgent plant needs when required.
• Preferred Experience/Education: Experience in chemical, agricultural, pesticide, food, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience with process safety management, mechanical integrity, chemical hoses, scales, calibration systems, contamination prevention, and regulated maintenance documentation.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, reliability-centered maintenance, vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, or other predictive technologies.
• Formal training or certification in leadership, maintenance management, reliability, safety, project management, or continuous improvement.
• Working Conditions
• Work is performed in manufacturing, warehouse, utility, maintenance-shop, chemical-storage, material-handling, laboratory-support, and office environments. The role requires frequent floor presence, required personal protective equipment, and work around industrial equipment, chemicals, noise, temperature variation, heights, confined spaces, and vehicle traffic. Work across shifts, weekends, holidays, shutdowns, call-outs, or extended hours may be required. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Salary: $93,360 - $140,040
• In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges
• About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
• Join us and be part of a Fortune 500 company, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named #17 on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list and recognized as a winner in the Skilled Laborers category, as well as a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and included on the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
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