Facility Operations & Maintenance Group Leader

About the role

We are looking for a talented Facility Operations & Maintenance Group Leader to join our team specializing in Facilities for our CDBS (Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems) location at Troy, MI.

Responsibilities

• Action Oriented: Drive rapid progress by tackling challenges with urgency, energy, and a proactive mindset that keeps facility operations moving forward.
• Communicates Effectively: Deliver clear, audience-specific communication that aligns stakeholders, supports decision-making, and ensures smooth execution across teams.
• Customer Focus: Build strong internal customer relationships and deliver facility solutions that enhance safety, comfort, and operational reliability.
• Directs Work: Provide direction, delegate effectively, and remove barriers so teams can execute maintenance, operations, and emergency-preparedness tasks efficiently.
• Emergency Preparedness: Strengthen site resilience by managing emergency systems, identifying risks, and ensuring the facility is prepared for events like power outages, floods, or fires.
• Environmental Stewardship: Advance sustainability by developing programs that reduce environmental impact and align with recognized stewardship standards.
• Facilities Design & Maintenance: Elevate facility performance by overseeing design, construction, preventive maintenance, and asset-management systems that support long-term reliability.
• Data-Driven Project Leadership: Apply analytics and project-management discipline to optimize operations, guide investment decisions, and ensure projects deliver measurable results.

Requirements

• Strong Situational Judgment: The ability to make sound, real-time decisions in a dynamic environment, balancing operational needs, safety considerations, and resource constraints without losing momentum.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skill in partnering with engineering, operations, security, and corporate teams to align priorities, resolve issues quickly, and maintain seamless site performance.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: A drive to refine processes, enhance maintenance workflows, and identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and the overall facility experience.
• Clear, Practical Communication: The ability to translate technical, operational, and compliance information into clear guidance for diverse audiences—from skilled trades to leadership—ensuring alignment and smooth execution.

Qualifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Marketing, Sales, technical or a related subject or an acceptable combination of education and experience required.

Skills

• Significant level of relevant work experience required, including previous customer and/or product experience required.
• Purchasing/commercial contract negotiation preferred.
• Operational Leadership, Team Engagement & Security Oversight: Provides hands-on leadership to the maintenance team and onsite security staff, fostering a collaborative, practical, and solutions-oriented work environment that supports safe, secure, and reliable day-to-day operations.
• Maintenance Planning & Execution: Oversees preventive and corrective maintenance activities, ensuring work is prioritized appropriately to minimize operational disruption while maintaining compliance with corporate standards.
• CMMS & Work Order Management: Supports the continued rollout and stabilization of the site’s CMMS, ensuring work orders, preventive maintenance tasks, and asset data are maintained accurately and used effectively to support maintenance decision-making.

Preferred Experience

• Using a CMMS platform, preferably IBM Maximo , including work orders, PMs, and asset data.
• Previous exposure to capital project coordination and large-scale facility improvements.