Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager – Frozen Food Manufacturing (Vernon, CA)

Tina’s Burritos | Camino Real Foods

Location: Vernon, CA
Pay Range: $110,000-$130,000 or $60/hr

Why Join Tina’s Burritos?

Tina’s Burritos is the #1 single-serve frozen burrito brand in the U.S. We operate a high-volume, automation-driven frozen food facility where maintenance leadership has a direct, visible impact on uptime, safety, and growth.

This is a hands-on leadership role, not a desk job. If you enjoy being on the floor, solving real problems, mentoring mechanics, and improving equipment reliability in a USDA-regulated environment, this role is for you.

Position Summary

The Maintenance Manager leads and oversees all mechanical, electrical, controls, and utility-related operations across our frozen food production facility. This role is responsible for driving equipment reliability, improving safety performance, strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance programs, and executing capital projects that support operational excellence.

The ideal candidate has strong electrical and controls troubleshooting ability, experience in USDA-regulated food manufacturing, familiarity with ammonia refrigeration and frozen operations, and the leadership skills to build a disciplined, high-performing maintenance team.

Key Responsibilities

• Hire, Lead, coach, and develop a multi-skilled maintenance team to ensure safe, timely repairs and minimal downtime
• Actively participate on the production floor troubleshooting equipment issues along with Maintenance and Production personnel and identifying root causes and long term solutions.
• Oversee maintenance of automated production lines including ovens, spiral freezers, conveyors, kettles, and horizontal form-and-seal packaging equipment
• Manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce recurring failures
• Ensure compliance with USDA, FDA, OSHA, EPA, and food safety requirements
• Support and lead maintenance activities during production, changeovers, and sanitation windows
• Plan and execute capital projects, equipment upgrades, and facility improvements
• Maintain CMMS for work orders, PMs, asset history, and downtime tracking
• Partner closely with Production, QA, Sanitation, and Engineering teams to meet daily production goals
• Manage labor planning, spare parts inventory, contractor coordination, and maintenance budgets
• Champion safety, including LOTO, PPE, confined space, and refrigeration safety
• Provide leadership coverage for off-shift or weekend PMs as required

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in food manufacturing (USDA/FDA regulated)
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting skills in:
  • Electrical systems (480V, motor controls, panels)
  • PLC-controlled equipment
  • Pneumatics and hydraulics
• Experience working in frozen or cold-chain operations strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of ammonia refrigeration systems (preferred, not required)
• Experience supporting horizontal form-and-seal packaging equipment
• Available to support a 7-day operational schedule, including flexible hours, overtime, weekends, and PM-driven production requirements. (Normally conducted on Saturdays and Sundays)
• Strong communication and leadership skills; bilingual Spanish/English strongly preferred

Preferred Technical Experience

• PLC troubleshooting (Allen-Bradley preferred)
• VFDs, sensors, encoders, and industrial controls
• Welding and basic fabrication (MIG/TIG preferred)
• Spiral freezers, ovens, kettles, conveyors
• CMMS platforms (MP2, Fiix, eMaint, SAP PM, or similar)
• Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or Reliability-Centered Maintenance
• Industrial safety and LOTO compliance

 Please watch this short video to hear What Makes Tina's So Special in the words of our employees, managers, and CEO.