Maintenance Manager Tallmadge, OH Competitive Compensation + Bonus The Maintenance Manager will oversee the maintenance function, leading a team of approximately 12 hourly maintenance employees. This individual will be responsible for driving a strong safety-first culture while ensuring reliable plant operations, equipment performance, employee development, quality, productivity, and cost control.
Maintenance Manager Responsibilities:
Lead, coach, train, and develop a team of maintenance employees while fostering a high-accountability, safety-first culture. Develop and execute the plant maintenance strategy to improve equipment reliability, uptime, productivity, quality, capacity, and operating performance. Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs, including PM scheduling, work-order execution, TPM/RWP initiatives, and root-cause failure analysis for chronic equipment issues. Drive plant safety, housekeeping, environmental compliance, risk assessments, incident investigations, and corrective actions with the goal of zero recordable injuries. Manage maintenance labor, repair, replacement, and capital budgets while identifying opportunities to reduce costs and improve resource utilization. Partner with production, engineering, technical, and shift leadership teams to establish maintenance priorities and support daily manufacturing operations. Lead continuous improvement efforts that eliminate waste, enhance safety, reduce downtime, improve machine performance, and increase productivity. Build and retain a strong maintenance team through performance management, coaching, training, certification tracking, succession planning, and consistent enforcement of plant policies and procedures.
Maintenance Manager Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline preferred. Minimum of 5 years of industrial manufacturing maintenance experience. Previous experience leading, supervising, or developing maintenance personnel in a manufacturing environment preferred. Experience with preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, work-order systems, equipment reliability, and root-cause analysis. Experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Reliability Work Process (RWP) preferred. Demonstrated ability to lead safety improvement initiatives and create an injury-free work environment. Experience managing maintenance budgets, repair costs, capital projects, and resource allocation. #INDETM
