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Maintenance and Reliability Manager

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Job ID 312062 Date posted 08/01/2025 Location : Stockton, California Category  BUILD OPERATE MAINTAIN (PLANT OPNS) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill. 
This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager will manage and execute the deployment of overall leading maintenance practices aligned to production needs. In this role, you will lead a team that executes routine complex activities to maintain and improve capacity utilization and quality standards realized through reliable operations across the region.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop and manage maintenance programs.
  • Serves as reliability champion integrating with other plant functions to support EQ and process reliability
  • Follow compliance and safety guidelines to ensure health and wellbeing of employees.
  • Plan, prep, and schedule maintenance tasks with local maintenance team, and with contractors
  • Oversee daily maintenance tasks and setting maintenance priorities
  • Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
  • Manage maintenance projects as needed
  • Manage procurement and storeroom
  • Manage, forecast, and oversee maintenance budget
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years' experience in Electrical Controls & Troubleshooting
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 2 years' experience in managing maintenance projects
  • 3 years' experience managing tasks across multiple crafts (electrical, mechanical, pneumatic)
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience
  • 2 years' experience managing maintenance budget and costs
  • 2 years' experience managing contractors and contractor projects
  • 3 years of supervisory experience
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5 years of supervisory experience

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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