Rendering Maintenance Manager
Location: Millsboro, Delaware
Employment Type: Full-Time
The Rendering Maintenance Manager will lead all maintenance and reliability activities at an industrial rendering facility, ensuring equipment uptime, safe operations, environmental compliance, and operational efficiency. This role oversees maintenance personnel, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, budgets, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and develop maintenance supervisors, mechanics, technicians, and contractors.
- Implement preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
- Improve equipment reliability, uptime, and maintenance performance.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for equipment failures.
- Manage maintenance budgets, expenditures, and performance KPIs.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, environmental regulations, LOTO, confined space, and hot work safety requirements.
- Oversee capital projects, equipment installations, and contractor activities.
- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Safety teams to improve plant performance.
- Maintain 24/7 accountability for critical plant equipment and emergencies.
Required Qualifications- Minimum 7 years of industrial maintenance experience.
- At least 3 years of maintenance leadership or supervisory experience.
- Experience managing maintenance teams, contractors, budgets, and maintenance programs.
- Strong knowledge of equipment reliability, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Ability to respond to plant emergencies and work in an industrial environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field.
- Experience in rendering, poultry processing, food manufacturing, feed manufacturing, or similar industrial operations.
- Knowledge of CMMS, reliability-centered maintenance, and predictive maintenance technologies.
- Experience managing capital projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
