Maintenance Manager

Position Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing and improving the upkeep, performance, and reliability of our facilities, equipment, and systems. This role involves leading a team of supervisors and technicians and ensuring that all maintenance activities are aligned with safety standards, operational goals, and company policy. A key focus will be on asset management, including strategic planning, preventative maintenance, utilization and life cycle optimizations of assets to reduce downtime and maximize efficiency.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive preventive and corrective maintenance program.
• Lead the maintenance team, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
• Create and oversee asset management strategies, including tracking, auditing, and optimizing asset performance through CMMS or similar systems.
• Manage the repair, replacement, and upgrades of equipment through the capital expenditure process.
• Lead root cause assessment for defects and equipment failures.
• Planning and coordinating both internal and external projects/outages to ensure safe and successful executions on schedule and under budget.
• Set Maintenance direction, priorities and strategies to maximize asset life cycle(s) and develop/execute EOL and Capex planning.
• Monitor maintenance budgets, identify cost-saving opportunities, and work with accounting to develop department budgets.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support production goals and address operational challenges.
• Analyze equipment performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

Job Requirements

Education and Experience: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of supervisory experience in production/maintenance management or other operations related activity.
• Proficient in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and establishing maintenance and reliability systems.
• Six Sigma training with tangible application preferred.

Essential Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to prepare and deliver clear, concise reports that are understandable by the target audience.
• Capable of driving for the achievement of business results
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced quickly changing environment.
• Strong knowledge of equipment life cycles, predictive maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance
• Proven ability to build relationships, communicate effectively, and present ideas confidently and persuasively.
• Strong computer skills that include proficiency with MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) and CMMS.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, write, and speak English; bilingual in Spanish preferred.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee possesses the ability to fulfill and any all office activities normally expected in an office setting, to include, but not limited to: remaining seated for periods of time to perform computer entry, participating in filing activity, lifting and carrying office supplies (paper reams, mail, etc.).
• Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets.
• May require more than 40 hours per week to perform the essential duties of the position.
• The individual possesses fine hand manipulation (keyboarding) skills.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position works in a manufacturing setting that may involve working around mechanical, electrical, and chemical hazards.
• The noise level is usually moderate.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as a computer, phone, printer/scanner, and filing cabinets.