MRO Manager

MRO Manager

Location: Hatfield, PA

Schedule: Onsite | 5 days per week

Travel: 15% - 25%

 

About Clemens Food Group

For more than 130 years, Clemens Food Group has been guided by a simple principle: do the right thing. As a family-owned, fully integrated food company, we operate across the entire supply chain from raising livestock to delivering finished products. We combine tradition with innovation to produce quality food and build a culture where people are empowered to grow, contribute, and succeed.

 

Make a Lasting Impact Across Our Manufacturing Network

Clemens Food Group is seeking a strategic and results-driven MRO Superintendent to lead and evolve our Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) function across multiple manufacturing facilities. Reporting to the Vice President of Manufacturing Excellence, this role creates the vision, direction, and long-term strategy for MRO operations while ensuring our plants have the critical parts, materials, and supplier partnerships needed to operate efficiently every day.

This is a unique opportunity to influence operational performance across our entire network. The ideal candidate brings a balance of strategic thinking and operational execution, helping transform a highly tactical organization into a mature, value-driven MRO function that supports long-term business growth.

 

What You'll Do

• Provide leadership and direction to MRO Supervisors and Buyers across all Clemens Food Group manufacturing locations.
• Maintain accountability for MRO working capital and inventory management across the enterprise.
• Oversee MRO systems, master data, inventory controls, and procurement processes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives within the MRO organization and across functional teams.
• Establish key performance metrics and hold teams accountable to budgets, goals, and service expectations.
• Build and manage strategic supplier relationships while negotiating agreements that support operational excellence.
• Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap that advances the maturity, effectiveness, and value of the MRO organization.
• Partner closely with maintenance and operations leaders to ensure critical resources are available when and where they are needed.

 

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and MRO experience.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant MRO experience if no degree is held.
• Advanced SAP experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading MRO operations, inventory management, procurement, or maintenance support functions.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified MRO Specialist or Certified MRO Manager designation.
• Experience managing large-scale MRO budgets and inventory investments.
• Multi-site manufacturing or consumer packaged goods (CPG) experience.
• Experience leading teams consisting of both salaried and hourly employees.
• Maintenance or reliability leadership experience.

 

Why Join Clemens Food Group?

This role offers the opportunity to influence manufacturing performance across multiple facilities while shaping the future of MRO operations at Clemens Food Group. You'll work alongside leaders who value innovation, continuous improvement, and servant leadership while creating strategies that directly support operational reliability and business success. Growth opportunities may include maintenance leadership, operations leadership, and broader Manufacturing Excellence roles.

 

Agency Statement

Clemens Food Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of Clemens Food Group to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation.