Senior Divisional Maintenance Manager

About the role

As the Senior Divisional Maintenance Manager, you’ll provide technical leadership, governance and strategic support across Nestlé Purina’s wet manufacturing network. Acting as a key link between Corporate Engineering, divisional leadership, and factory maintenance teams, you’ll lead the deployment of divisional asset maintenance strategies, methodologies and standard routines.

Key responsibilities

• Lead divisional maintenance subject matter experts and develop factory teams, maintenance managers, planners, technical store teams, and PM Pillar leaders.
• Ensure adherence to engineering, safety, quality, environmental, GMP, OSHA, EPA, maintenance, and TPM standards.
• Strengthen Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) capability at factory level to eliminate repeat failures.
• Implement Maintenance Progression plan to embed technical and leadership competency development across all wet factories.
• Sustain reliability engineering, machine improvements, preventative maintenance standards, CIL standards, and centerlines for priority technologies.
• Utilize technical training modules, tablets and digital resources to increase technical competencies of maintenance technicians and production operators.
• Improve quality of Planned Maintenance Standards to enhance asset performance.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of maintenance experience in manufacturing, industrial, military or related environments.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 50 % to Nestlé Purina facilities within the United States.

Required skills

• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Reliability engineering
• Preventative Maintenance
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• CIL standards

What we offer

• Performance‑based incentives and a competitive total rewards package.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Healthcare coverage.
• Additional benefits as described on Nestlé’s benefits page.