Maintenance Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and support a diverse team of approximately 40-45 maintenance professionals in a manufacturing environment, fostering an authentic, inclusive, and high-performance culture.
• Champion a customer-centric, safety-first mindset, ensuring all safety, regulatory, and compliance requirements are consistently met for people, equipment, and facilities.
• Align maintenance strategies with equipment criticality, operational risk, and business priorities to support safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives.
• Plan, execute, and continuously improve preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance programs to enhance equipment availability, reliability, and process control.
• Ensure timely and effective response to equipment breakdowns, using structured root cause analysis and corrective actions to deliver sustainable, long-term solutions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Kaizen, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and problem-solving methodologies to eliminate losses and improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost efficiency.
• Develop, track, and actively manage maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor performance, enable data-driven decisions, and support an agile improvement culture.
• Optimize maintenance costs through operational efficiency, effective energy management, disciplined spare parts consumption, and standardization practices.
• Oversee execution and full utilization of maintenance management systems, ensuring accurate data, standardized processes, and continuous system improvement.
• Proactively manage equipment lifecycle and obsolescence risks to support long-term reliability and innovation.
• Ensure resources are appropriately aligned by capability and staffing levels, executing training, succession, and development plans to build future-ready talent.
• Partner collaboratively with Operations, Engineering, and Technology teams to deliver reliable outcomes that support customer needs and business goals.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of maintenance management experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or related field.
• Experience with equipment reliability programs, energy optimization initiatives, and spare parts standardization.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a proven ability to engage teams, drive accountability, and deliver results through others.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, analytical capability, and a growth mindset focused on continuous improvement and innovation.
• Proven success developing employees through coaching, mentoring, and structured development planning.
• Experience executing maintenance strategies and performance management using maintenance management systems.
• Willingness and ability to work in a manufacturing environment while maintaining a customer-centric and safety-focused approach.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Technical degree in engineering, maintenance, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Experience implementing best-in-class predictive and proactive maintenance practices.
• Working knowledge of Lean, TPM, Kaizen, and root cause problem-solving methodologies.
• Background supporting technology-enabled operations within the Utilities & Energy sector.

Benefits Info

This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more! This position is eligible for our 10% annual bonus.

• Travel: 0-10%
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The successful candidate's starting wage will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

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