Title:  Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Join our team as an Engineering and Maintenance Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to manage financial and human resources that ensure the plant operates in optimal conditions. You will lead continuous improvement initiatives, oversee asset care programs, and align with safety, quality, food safety, and operations teams to meet manufacturing objectives efficiently and sustainably.

You will also oversee Utilities and Facilities Maintenance strategies, driving energy efficiency initiatives and maximizing equipment availability and performance. This role is key to maintaining infrastructure reliability, minimizing downtime, and optimizing long-term operational results. This position is based in Linares, Nuevo Leon

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

• Operational Continuity and Compliance: Ensures uninterrupted plant operations while meeting food safety and occupational safety standards.
• Budget and Utilities Management: Manages the maintenance budget and ensures efficient use and continuous supply of electricity, steam, compressed air, chilled water, and treated water.
• Leadership and Talent Development: Builds internal leadership pipelines, promotes diversity and inclusion, and ensures completion of individual development plans.
• Maintenance Strategy and Reliability: Implements structured practices to ensure long-term equipment performance and infrastructure reliability.
• Modernization and Technology Upgrade: Leads equipment renewal and technology upgrades to strengthen the plant’s competitiveness and sustainability.

We’re Looking for Someone With

• Engineering bachelor´s degree
• Minimum of 4-year experience in operations experience, manufacturing and maintenance
• Fluent Spanish and English
• Minimum 6-year experience in leadership skills

What’s Next

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.

If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for more specific information.

Get to Know Us

We’ve always been driven to unleash the full potential of our differentiated brands and our passionate people. Our iconic, world-class brands at Kellanova include Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, MorningStar Farms, Special K, Krave, Zucaritas, Tresor, Crunchy Nut, among others.

Mars, Incorporated has acquired Kellanova in a transaction that brings together iconic brands, storied legacies and outstanding capabilities with a view to shape the future of snacking. You can learn more here, and our hiring teams will be happy to discuss further questions if your application advances in the hiring process.

Let’s shape the future of snacking.

Kellanova is an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to provide an inclusive work environment, a seat for everyone at the table, and embraces the diverse talent of its people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, please visit our website here.