Maintenance Manager

Safety

Foster a proactive safety culture in all maintenance activities
Ensure full compliance with:
- OSHA, LOTO, electrical safety, confined space, hot work, working at heights
Ensure all maintenance work is executed safely and equipment operates safely
Lead safety observations and risk elimination efforts
Maintain strong 5S and housekeeping standards across all maintenance areas

Quality

Ensure all equipment supports consistent, quality output
Support investigations into quality issues and corrective actions
Maintain compliance with internal standards, audits, and applicable regulation
Ensure equipment is set up and maintained to support efficient production
Support production start-ups, transitions, and troubleshooting in real time
Champion continuous improvement using Lean / CI tools
Provide technical input on equipment design, upgrades, and process

People

Lead, coach, and develop maintenance technicians into a high-performing team
Build technical capability through structured training and skill development
Set clear goals and expectations for performance, accountability, and work quality
Identify and develop future leaders within the team
Drive engagement, recognition, and a culture of ownership
Partner with Site Operations, Engineering and Corporate Teams to support the site

Productivity

Own and execute the site maintenance strategy, including:
- Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Predictive / condition-based maintenance (as applicable)
Ensure all PMs and work orders are completed safely, on time, and correctly
Drive improvements in equipment uptime, reliability, and responsiveness
Lead troubleshooting and ensure rapid, effective resolution of equipment issues
Perform and lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes
Reduce repeat failures and unplanned downtime through structured problem-solving
Own and improve the CMMS
Work orders, PM schedules, asset history, and spare parts

Customer Value

Support capital projects, installations, and equipment upgrades
Participate in design reviews, commissioning, and launch readiness
Evaluate new technologies that improve safety, reliability, or productivity
Manage vendors, contractors, and external technical resources as needed

Financial

Manage maintenance budget, repair costs, and service spending
Understand and provide ROI or other financial analysis when needed
Optimize cost through effective parts sourcing and vendor management
Identify cost-saving opportunities through reliability improvements

Cultural Competencies

• Do It Right - Identifies and counters resistance to change, advocates continuous improvement, forges teams, provides direction, provides constructive performance feedback, willingly adjusts the make-up of the team, plans, delegates, and follows up, guides others to improve collaboration, entrepreneurial initiative
• Do It Safe - Self-assured yet humble, able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener, patient, effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontation, solution vs. blame oriented, mixture of firmness and flexibility, has energy and enthusiasm, holds self and others accountable, willing to take calculated risks.
• Do It Well - Systematic trainer, good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort, able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not, resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered, maintains sense of urgency, follows up to ensure quality task completion, disciplined Self Starter

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, and lifting (up to 35 lbs.)
• Resourceful, adaptable, and detail-oriented
• Capable of operating powered industrial vehicles
• Capable of working at heights, including operating scissor and articulated boom lifts

Management Reasoning and Organizational Skills

• Strong leadership, trainer and team development skills
• Hands-on technical troubleshooting (mechanical, electrical, automation)
• Strong organization, planning and budget management
• Proactive in working with planning and scheduling to eliminate waste
• Ability to balance urgent execution with long-term improvement and strategy
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication
• Continuous improvement mindset (waste elimination) and structured problem solving

Systems Usage

• Asset Essentials or other Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Nulogy or other Shop Floor Management system (SFM)
• UKG or other Workforce Management system (WFM)
• Microsoft Office Suite, with strong Excel and Word skills
• Qualtrax or other Quality Management System (QMS)
• NetSuite or other procurement management system
• Equipment support software applications:
• LABELVIEW or other label design software
• PLC programming software
• HMI programming software
• Robot programming software
• CAD experience is a plus

Performance Metrics and Trends

• Safety
• Quality
• Productivity
• People
• Customer Value
• Financial

Qualifications

Education and Experience:
Required:
- 7+ years in maintenance leadership roles
- Strong background in industrial maintenance (mechanical/electrical systems)
- Experience with CMMS systems and work order processes
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams
- Process oriented, results driven
- Technology – Efficient in MS Office tools (Excel, Power Point, Word), and able to use them to communicate priorities, issues and opportunities
Preferred :
- Associate degree or higher in a technical field
- Experience with packaging or automated manufacturing systems
- Lean / CI experience (TPM, Six Sigma, etc.)
- Project management and capital installation experience