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Our purpose is to make the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive. To fulfill our purpose, we focus on understanding and solving cleaning needs for consumers, as well as business customers across a variety of segments including transportation, industrial, institutional, and food & beverage. We also have a strong presence in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) segment, where we develop products to help consumers and businesses maintain a clean and safe environment. Our products can be found online and at retail shelves at outlets like Home Depot, Amazon, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Grainger, HD Supply, Walmart, and many others. We market our products under well recognized and established brand names, such as Zep®, Enforcer®, Misty®, TimeMist®, TimeWick, and Country Vet®. Zep was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. In 2021, Zep became the official cleaning partner of Atlanta United FC.\nJob Description:\nPosition Overview\nAre you a hands-on maintenance leader who enjoys solving complex equipment challenges, developing talented teams, and driving continuous improvement? We’re looking for a Maintenance & Reliability Manager to lead maintenance operations and equipment reliability at our chemical manufacturing facility in Emerson, GA. This role is responsible for developing maintenance strategies that maximize equipment uptime, improve operational efficiency, control costs, and ensure a safe working environment. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with proven leadership skills and a commitment to continuous improvement.\nThis is an opportunity to take ownership of maintenance and reliability strategy, improve equipment performance, and partner across the organization to keep operations running safely, efficiently, and reliably.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead & Develop: Supervise and develop a team of maintenance technicians and contractors, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nDrive Reliability: Strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce unplanned downtime, improve equipment performance, and extend asset life.\nSolve Problems: Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis to identify recurring issues and implement lasting solutions.\nOptimize Equipment: Improve the reliability of automated packaging lines, fillers, conveyors, palletizers, mixing systems, pumps, motors, and related process equipment.\nManage Performance: Oversee maintenance planning, budgets, spare parts, contractors, and key performance metrics to improve efficiency and control costs.\nChampion Safety: Ensure maintenance activities meet applicable safety and environmental requirements.\nCollaborate & Innovate: Partner with Production, Quality, EHS, and Engineering on equipment upgrades, capital projects, and process improvements.\nEducation and Qualifications\nAssociates or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\nExperience in a CPG manufacturing a must. Filling ideal.\nCRMP certification a plus\nFive (5) or more years of industrial maintenance experience, including leadership of maintenance teams in a lean manufacturing environment.\nStrong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and motor-control systems.\nExperience with preventive maintenance, equipment troubleshooting, reliability improvement, and maintenance planning.\nFamiliarity with PLC-controlled equipment, industrial automation, CMMS platforms, and maintenance performance metrics.\nExperience with automated packaging equipment and industrial mixing systems preferred.\nChemical manufacturing or process-industry experience preferred.\nStrong leadership, communication, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills.\nThank you for your interest and consideration of a career with Zep.\nwww.zep.com\nThank you for your interest and consideration of a career with Zep!\nwww.zep.com\nEOE, All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.\nOur Values\nAt Zep, we have developed a set of values focused on bringing even greater cohesion to our workplace. As part of this plan, we introduced a values framework called S.P.E.E.D. to align with our purpose of making the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive.\nStewardship: We continuously improve the safety of our people and products, and we protect the planet by innovating solutions to reduce our environmental impact.\nPassion for Problem Solving: We listen to our customers and actively work to find solutions for unique situations. We think creatively to innovate and seize opportunities that will drive growth and make all our customers’ and consumers’ lives better.\nEmpowerment: We encourage and lead our people to be accountable by equipping them to make decisions and own the outcome\nExpertise: We create innovative solutions and partnerships that are relevant to service our communities and customers.\n Doing the Right Thing: We expect our people to understand ethical boundaries and be inclusive of other backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives. Demonstrating honesty, respect and integrity in all actions is always expected.\nZep is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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