Are you a seasoned maintenance leader with a passion for operational excellence in food manufacturing? Do you thrive on solving complex production challenges and sharing your expertise to help others grow? As a Food Production Maintenance Subject Matter Expert (SME) at WorkForge, you will play a key role in shaping industry-leading eLearning experiences that teach the art and science of maintaining high-performing food production facilities.
In this role, you’ll use your deep experience in food production maintenance to inform, review, and refine maintenance-related training content. You’ll collaborate with instructional designers to develop practical, real-world learning materials that empower maintenance teams, engineers, and production leaders to ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency at every stage of food production.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Make a Lasting Impact: Your expertise will directly shape the future of maintenance training for food manufacturing professionals.
- Diverse Collaboration: Partner with learning designers, engineers, and industry leaders to create high-quality, relevant learning experiences.
- Professional Influence: Contribute to eLearning content that helps thousands of maintenance and operations professionals elevate their skills.
- Flexible Engagement: Work remotely with the freedom to balance professional input and personal schedule.
- Continuous Innovation: Help guide the modernization of maintenance practices through digital learning and upskilling initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
1. Content Development & Technical Review
- Collaborate with instructional designers to review, update, and develop eLearning modules focused on food production maintenance.
- Ensure technical accuracy, practicality, and alignment with current maintenance best practices, safety protocols, and compliance standards.
- Provide guidance on preventive maintenance strategies, root cause analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance approaches.
- Review and validate content to ensure it reflects real-world applications.
2. Subject Matter Expertise & Advisory
- Serve as a primary technical advisor for all food production maintenance-related content.
- Identify critical skill areas for maintenance teams and suggest topics or learning paths to support workforce development.
- Advise on aligning maintenance content with major certification or compliance frameworks within food manufacturing.
- Offer feedback on practical workflows, documentation standards, and equipment management procedures.
3. Industry Insights & Collaboration
- Share insights on evolving technologies, maintenance automation, and equipment innovations shaping the food production industry.
- Participate in collaborative sessions with designers, marketing teams, and stakeholders to ensure technical integrity and educational relevance.
- Contribute to marketing initiatives when needed — such as writing short technical articles or joining webinars that highlight maintenance excellence.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in maintenance management or engineering leadership within food production environments.
- Broad, hands-on experience across multiple machines, pumps, cooling, belt drives, fillers, packaging systems, and chain drives.
- Deep understanding of preventive maintenance systems, reliability engineering, and safety compliance within regulated environments.
- Proven ability to analyze systems, identify improvement opportunities, and optimize production uptime.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — capable of translating technical expertise into clear, learner-friendly content.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing or contributing to training, technical documentation, or workforce development programs.
- Certifications or advanced knowledge in maintenance management, CMMS systems, reliability, or lean manufacturing.
- Familiarity with eLearning processes, instructional design collaboration, or digital learning development.
- Strong understanding of equipment performance metrics.
Other Details
- Engagement Type: Contract / Part-Time
- Time Commitment: 2–4 hours per week (occasionally up to 8 hours; some weeks may have 0 hours depending on project flow)
- Location: Remote
- Compensation: Commensurate with experience