Maintenance Manager

The Opportunity

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance operations across multi-shift powdered food production lines for the GPN Aurora Campus and facilities maintenance for the Chicagoland GPN real estate portfolio. This role ensures equipment reliability, adherence to preventive and predictive maintenance schedules, and compliance with food safety and regulatory standards. The Maintenance Manager will assemble, motivate and manage a high performance team, drive continuous improvement initiatives, manage business-sustaining capital projects, and foster a culture of safety, accountability, and technical excellence.

Team Leadership & Development

• Hire, lead, coach, and develop high-performing maintenance and facilities teams across multiple shifts.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones and performance reviews to foster growth, accountability, and succession planning.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and technical direction to enhance employee knowledge and retain top talent.

Safety, Compliance & Culture

• Promote a culture of safety, ownership, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Lead departmental safety and ensure compliance with GMPs, OSHA, EPA, and all relevant food safety standards (FDA, NSF, Organic, Halal, Kosher).
• Conduct regular safety and environmental audits.

Maintenance Strategy & Operations

• Develop and implement proactive maintenance strategies and schedules (using SAP, CMMS, Upkeep CMMS) to maximize equipment reliability and OEE.
• Assign and prioritize workloads for maintenance and facilities personnel.
• Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance programs.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external contractors to ensure timely, quality service.
• Oversee spare parts inventory, procurement, vendor negotiations, and manage contracts for building maintenance services (HVAC, compressed air, electrical, landscaping, snow removal, building shell).
• Hire and schedule subcontractors for specialized maintenance work and approve maintenance contracts.

Technical Support & Process Improvement

• Provide technical support for troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and process optimization to reduce downtime.
• Use metrics to assess and drive improvement opportunities.

Collaboration & Capital Projects

• Collaborate closely with Operations to align maintenance activities with production goals.
• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades, and prepare/manage departmental budgets, including capital forecasts and cost control.

Emergency Response

• Respond to facility issues and emergencies on a 24/7 basis.

Perform other duties as assigned.

The Skills you will bring to the team

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of relevant plant leadership experience, including 2+ years of directly supervising teams.
• Strong knowledge of high voltage multi-phase electrical systems troubleshooting.
• Experience in food processing and packaging equipment and processes.
• Experience with HVAC, alarms & surveillance, fire systems, electrical service and distribution systems.
• Working knowledge of GMP’s, OSHA, Electrical Safety, Food Safety (FDA, SQF, NSF), and Building Code regulations.
• Experience with computerized predictive/preventative maintenance program, work order generation/logging and provide trend information.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, high intensity environment.
• Ability to read and understand control logic, P&IDs and other technical material pertinent to automated packaging equipment.

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based onsite inAurora, Illinois.

What we would like to offer you!

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.  Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. Annual salary for Illinois - based employees for this role is $130,000 to $160,000.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide. 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.