Baldwin Richardson Foods (BRF) is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, BRF combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies. The company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments.  BRF has facilities from coast-to-coast to meet our growing partnership needs.
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Sr Manager Enterprise Progressive Maintenance
Posting Start Date:  6/10/26
Division:  Operations
Location Type:  On-Site
Pay Min:  170,000.00 USD
Pay Max:  180,000.00 USD
Job Location:  Macedon, NY, USA, 14502 | Pennsauken, NJ, USA, 08110
Req Id:  661

WHAT WE NEED

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Progressive Maintenance is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Progressive Maintenance (PM) pillar across all manufacturing sites within the framework of BRF’s “Go For The Win” (GFTW) manufacturing operating system. This includes production, packaging, and facilities systems supporting our aseptic and liquid food manufacturing.

 

This role ensures equipment and utility systems operate reliably, safely, and efficiently, while maintaining compliance with food safety and regulatory standards. The position also provides oversight of all contracted maintenance services, ensuring external partners align with enterprise reliability standards, safety expectations, and continuous improvement objectives.

 

The ideal candidate is a strategic and hands-on leader with deep technical knowledge of process, packaging, and facility equipment, as well as experience leading teams and an organization through maintenance transformation.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

1. Progressive Maintenance Strategy & Leadership

  • Develop and execute an enterprise-wide Progressive Maintenance roadmap that ensures long-term equipment reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.
  • Define standardized PM systems, work processes, and maturity metrics across all manufacturing and utility assets.
  • Integrate PM principles into site operating systems in partnership with Operations, Quality, and Engineering leadership.
  • Establish short-, mid-, and long-term improvement plans focused on zero unplanned stops, zero quality defects, and zero safety incidents.

2. Equipment Reliability & Asset Management

  • Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance programs for all critical equipment, including:
    • Processing systems: blending tanks, pasteurizers, sterilizers, homogenizers, CIP/SIP systems.
    • Filling and packaging lines: aseptic fillers, cappers, conveyors, labeling systems, and automated inspection equipment.
    • Facilities and utilities: compressed air, steam generation, chilled water, refrigeration, HVAC with HEPA filtration, water purification and RO systems, waste treatment, and building automation systems.
  • Implement condition-based monitoring programs to drive reliability improvements.
  • Optimize spare parts management, balancing availability and cost efficiency.
  • Partner with Engineering teams on equipment design, commissioning, and lifecycle planning.

3. Contracted Maintenance Oversight

  • Manage all third-party maintenance contractors to ensure adherence to enterprise maintenance standards, food safety requirements, and safety compliance.
  • Establish clear scopes of work, performance metrics, and contractual KPIs for contracted services.
  • Conduct regular audits, performance reviews, and coordination meetings with vendors to maintain quality, safety, and reliability standards.
  • Integrate contractor activities into PM and predictive maintenance schedules to minimize unplanned downtime.
  • Develop partnerships with contractors to drive innovation, skill transfer, and continuous improvement initiatives.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Industrial Engineering; Master’s preferred.
  • 10+ years of maintenance or reliability leadership experience in food, beverage, or pharmaceutical manufacturing; aseptic experience preferred.
  • Proven experience managing multi-site maintenance programs, including oversight of contracted services.
  • Expertise in aseptic processing, sterilization, and utilities supporting controlled environments.
  • Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance.
  • Familiarity with reliability tools (RCM, FMEA, RCA, CMMS optimization).
  • Experience managing third-party contractors in compliance-critical manufacturing environments.
  • Strong leadership and change management skills, with ability to influence multiple stakeholders across sites.
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Baldwin Richardson Foods (BRF) is a place where people go above and beyond. It’s only fitting that our employees be compensated in a similar fashion. We offer a compensation and benefits package that’s holistic, competitive and fair. It’s focused on total well-being, so in addition to standard benefits, we offer extra perks such as vacation buy, floating holidays, health and wellness rebate and tuition assistance. BRF is committed to hiring a workforce which encourages diversity of thought and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, genetics, gender identity or expression, national origin, or disability.