Facilities Maintenance Leader (Edwards Vacuum)

Location and Compensation

Buffalo, NY — Edwards Genesee Dry Pump Facility, 6685 Crosby Rd, Basom, NY 14013 (Western New York Science & Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park).

Salary Range: $90,000 – $120,000 per year. Compensation may vary outside this range depending on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location.

About the Role

The Facilities Maintenance Leader oversees preventative and periodic maintenance to optimize facility, building, safety, health, environment, energy, and control instrumentation systems at a new greenfield manufacturing site producing dry vacuum pumps for high-precision applications. The role leads and manages the maintenance team’s rapid response to equipment or facility failures that jeopardize safety or impact production, and provides strategic leadership to establish and optimize facility operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Leadership & Team Development: Lead, coordinate, and develop the Facilities Maintenance team; establish work priorities, assign resources, provide technical direction, and ensure maintenance activities are completed safely, effectively, and on schedule.
• Preventive & Corrective Maintenance Management: Develop and manage preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs for facility infrastructure and manufacturing support systems. Drive effective use of the CMMS to schedule work, manage backlog, document repairs, and improve equipment reliability.
• Facility Infrastructure & Utilities Reliability: Ensure safe and reliable operation of critical facility systems including electrical distribution, HVAC, compressed air, water, plumbing, lighting, and other building infrastructure required to support manufacturing operations.
• Safety, Regulatory & Environmental Compliance: Ensure facilities maintenance activities comply with company EHS requirements and applicable regulatory standards. Provide leadership for safe work practices including lockout/tagout, electrical safety, contractor safety, hazardous material management, emergency response, fire protection, inspections, and corrective actions.
• Contractor & Vendor Management: Manage contractors, service providers, and suppliers performing facility maintenance, inspections, repairs, and installations. Define scopes of work, coordinate site activities, verify safe work practices, monitor quality and schedule performance, and ensure work meets facility requirements.
• Capital Projects & Facility Improvements: Plan and support facility upgrades, equipment installations, infrastructure replacement, expansion projects, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Coordinate with Engineering, Production, EHS, contractors, and other stakeholders to minimize operational disruption and ensure successful project execution.
• Emergency Response & Operational Support: Provide leadership during facility emergencies, utility interruptions, equipment failures, and other critical events. Coordinate troubleshooting and recovery activities to safely restore facility services and minimize manufacturing downtime.
• Planning, Budgeting & Continuous Improvement: Develop maintenance plans and priorities, monitor maintenance costs and resource requirements, identify infrastructure risks, and recommend equipment replacements, reliability improvements, energy-efficiency projects, and other initiatives that improve facility performance, sustainability, and long-term reliability.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other technical degree.
• Experience: 10 years’ experience in plant maintenance with 5 years’ experience managing a facility maintenance team.
• Knowledge & Skills: Strong mechanical aptitude; knowledge of high-voltage electrical systems, HVAC systems, plumbing systems, and compressed air systems; experience with contractors and third-party service management.
• Other Requirements: English communication skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and other computer systems; must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. (no visa sponsorship available).

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, risk of electrical shock, vibration, and occasionally loud noise. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use stairways to climb multiple floors within an office building, and talk or hear. Occasionally required to use hands and fingers to type or dial, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arms. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Frequent computer use required. Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Benefits

• Annual Variable Compensation Bonus
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Time, Paid Floating Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Training and Development programs
• Parental Leave
• Disability Benefits
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Internal job market within Atlas Copco Group
• Global, diverse, dynamic work environment with emphasis on internal promotion and a friendly, family-like atmosphere