Maintenance Manager

Title: Maintenance Manager

Location: Boardman, OR

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

The Maintenance Manager position provides leadership, expertise, and direction to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement with regards to efficiencies in the plant. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and implement actions to deliver improved equipment reliability through the identification of top losses, evaluation of work processes, and management of repair and maintenance activities. These actions will include, but are not limited to, development of systems and standards to improve skill levels, improve job plans, drive to root cause, and increase efficiency within the maintenance and production departments. This role is responsible for developing a culture of reliability within the maintenance staff by leading and providing direction to Maintenance Planners, Maintenance Supervisors, Tool Room / Inventory Team, and other key individuals within the maintenance department.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

·Supports the Planning, Maintenance, and Tool Room / Inventory groups

·Leads all Reliability systems to include, but not exclusive to: Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), Lubrication, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (MP&S)

·Leads Loss Identification systems to include, but not exclusive to: Breakdown Elimination (BDE), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Component Life Cycle Engineering, Stress Analysis

·Provides recommendations and data for equipment reliability improvements

·Works with Maintenance Repair & Operations (MRO) teams to manage spares strategy to include, but not exclusive to: Critical Spare analysis, purchasing processes.

·Works with area Planners to develop and maintain Planned Maintenance (PM) and Lubrication routes

·Works with Production Line Leaders to maximize reliability improvements

·Provide coaching to applicable entities to understand and achieve reliability improvements

·Integral team member with our Site Structure to support the production lines Line Structure Teams (LSTs) and directly lead the development and ownership of the Site Structure Team (SST) to improve the reliability of the overall site

·Leads Planned Maintenance (PM) Pillar and actively participates with Pillar Teams at all other plants

·Assists in the development, management, and completion (compliance) of an effective Planned Maintenance (PM) program

·Supports the planning & execution processes of the Capital Program for the plant team working with the Engineering ensuring Key plant resources are available as appropriate.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field preferred
• 5-8 years of experience in manufacturing maintenance or engineering preferred
• Experience leading and managing a team preferred
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional and Certified Reliability Leader certifications preferred
• Must be computer literate; experienced in using computer software applications such as CAD, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc.
• Prior experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), preferred knowledge of SAP
• Basic accounting knowledge preferred
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for the stated requirements

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation, and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-258151

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 09/12/2025

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate’s work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $92,480.00 - $138,710.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law