Two-person maintenance team Build a More Proactive, Sustainable Maintenance Operation American Bath Group is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance function at its Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility. This is an opportunity to build greater structure, accountability, and long-term technical capability within an established plant—not to take over a facility in an equipment crisis. The site operates one production shift with approximately 60 employees and currently maintains relatively low equipment downtime. The Maintenance Manager will lead an experienced two-person maintenance team while working closely with production leaders, site leadership, equipment suppliers, and outside contractors. The successful candidate will strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, improve weekly work planning, capture critical technical knowledge, and bring greater ownership and discipline to maintenance and improvement projects. This role is well suited for a technically credible maintenance leader who is comfortable working directly on the plant floor and can balance hands-on troubleshooting with team development, project execution, and long-term maintenance planning. Key Responsibilities Lead the maintenance function for a one-shift manufacturing operation. Direct, develop, and establish clear accountability for a two-person maintenance team. Build practical maintenance routines for work intake, prioritization, scheduling, assignment, escalation, and documented closure. Establish consistent weekly work planning and assignment processes. Drive on-time completion and accurate documentation of preventive-maintenance activities. Ensure required predictive-maintenance and equipment-condition monitoring activities are completed and followed by documented corrective action when needed. Use Fiix or an equivalent computerized maintenance management system to manage work orders, preventive maintenance, history, priorities, and completion records. Capture and document critical equipment knowledge, including startup, shutdown, troubleshooting, common failure points, suppliers, and recovery procedures. Cross-train team members and build qualified backup capability for critical plant systems. Provide hands-on mechanical troubleshooting and equipment-recovery support. Read and troubleshoot from electrical and pneumatic schematics. Work safely around three-phase electrical systems. Create and maintain a controlled register of maintenance and improvement projects. Define project scope, ownership, priority, target dates, status, and completion outcomes. Reduce aged maintenance and improvement-project backlogs. Plan work effectively so projects and repairs are not unnecessarily deferred to shutdown periods or weekends. Track maintenance, repair, supplier, and contractor spending and identify significant variances. Coordinate equipment installations, relocations, repairs, modifications, and improvement work. Manage relationships with equipment suppliers, service providers, and contractors. Partner with production leaders to maintain or improve equipment reliability and maintenance-related downtime. Support shutdowns, emergencies, and after-hours maintenance needs when required. What Success Looks Like During the first year, the Maintenance Manager will be expected to: Establish 100% on-time completion and accurate closure of scheduled preventive-maintenance work. Complete and document all required predictive and condition-monitoring activities. Create documented backup capability for the plant's critical systems. Become independently capable of supporting startup, shutdown, and troubleshooting of major plant equipment. Assign an owner, priority, target date, and visible status to every active maintenance and improvement project. Implement a consistent weekly planning process. Reduce the number and age of open maintenance projects. Maintain or improve the plant's current maintenance-related downtime performance. Reduce dependence on emergency calls, individual knowledge, and informal work practices. Strengthen cooperation among maintenance, production, suppliers, contractors, and site leadership. Required Qualifications At least five years of manufacturing maintenance experience. Demonstrated hands-on mechanical troubleshooting capability. Experience reading and troubleshooting from electrical schematics. Experience reading and troubleshooting from pneumatic schematics. Credible experience working around three-phase electrical systems. Experience leading maintenance employees, technicians, or other skilled technical personnel. Direct responsibility for preventive-maintenance execution. Experience using a CMMS or an equivalent maintenance-management process. Experience owning maintenance, equipment-installation, or operational-improvement projects. Ability to establish project priorities, schedules, ownership, and completion expectations. Experience leading or influencing resistant, long-tenured, or highly experienced technical employees. Experience documenting technical knowledge and developing backup capability. Willingness to work directly on the manufacturing floor. Ability to support shutdowns or after-hours maintenance needs when required. Ten or more years of maintenance experience may be beneficial, but demonstrated ownership, technical capability, leadership, and execution are more important than tenure alone. Preferred Experience Experience in one or more of the following areas may support a faster transition: RTO or emissions-control systems. Pumps and fluid-handling equipment. Mixing processes. Compressors and filtration systems. Spray or material-delivery equipment. Fiix or another computerized maintenance management system. Vibration monitoring or predictive-maintenance programs. Material-handling improvements. Ergonomic or work-simplification projects. Equipment relocation. Piping, wiring, or conduit modifications. Cranes, conveyors, or vacuum-assist systems. Manual or moderately automated manufacturing environments. A specific industry background is not required. Leadership Profile The successful candidate will be able to: Establish credibility through technical knowledge and regular plant-floor presence. Respect the experience of long-tenured employees while introducing clearer expectations and work practices. Establish authority without relying on confrontation. Remain hands-on without becoming the department's only problem solver. Improve maintenance processes without overengineering a smaller, one-shift operation. Respond effectively to genuine emergencies without allowing all work to become urgent. Develop employees rather than becoming a new single point of technical dependency. Make practical decisions without requiring constant direction. Communicate effectively with production employees, plant leadership, suppliers, and contractors. Schedule This is an on-site position supporting a manufacturing facility that currently operates one production shift. The Maintenance Manager must also be available to support plant shutdowns, equipment emergencies, and occasional after-hours maintenance needs when required. Exact workdays and standard start and end times were not specified in the provided job information and should be confirmed before posting. Location Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania This position requires regular on-site presence and direct engagement with employees and equipment on the manufacturing floor. Compensation Compensation information was not included in the provided job specification. A salary range should be added before the advertisement is published. Benefits Benefits information was not included in the provided job specification. Confirmed benefit details should be added before the advertisement is published. Work Environment This is a hands-on manufacturing maintenance leadership position. The Maintenance Manager will divide time among the plant floor, maintenance planning, employee development, project coordination, supplier and contractor management, and administrative responsibilities. The position involves working around mechanical equipment, electrical systems, pneumatic systems, production processes, and active maintenance or improvement projects. Appropriate safety practices and personal protective equipment will be required. Why Join This Team? This role offers the opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact by: Building a practical maintenance operating rhythm. Improving preventive and predictive maintenance discipline. Protecting critical plant knowledge from future loss. Developing a small maintenance team directly. Completing projects that have remained open too long. Improving cooperation between maintenance and production. Reducing reactive work and avoidable overtime. Strengthening a plant that is currently operating without an acute equipment crisis. Seeing the direct effect of better planning, documentation, and leadership on daily operations. Equal Employment Opportunity American Bath Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Work Authorization and Employment Sponsorship Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. American Bath Group does not sponsor employment visas now or in the future. Apply Candidates who combine hands-on manufacturing maintenance expertise with people leadership, CMMS discipline, project ownership, and practical problem-solving are encouraged to apply. Please submit your résumé outlining your manufacturing maintenance experience, technical capabilities, team-leadership responsibilities, preventive-maintenance ownership, and relevant equipment or improvement projects.
Benefits:
401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Employee discount Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Application Question(s): Do you have at least five years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment? Do you have direct, hands-on experience diagnosing and resolving mechanical equipment problems in a manufacturing facility? Can you independently read and troubleshoot equipment using both electrical and pneumatic schematics? Do you have credible work experience supporting or troubleshooting equipment that uses three-phase electrical power? Have you directly led maintenance employees, technicians, or other skilled technical personnel? Have you been directly responsible for planning, scheduling, completing, or auditing a preventive-maintenance program? Have you used a computerized maintenance management system, such as Fiix, to manage work orders, preventive maintenance, equipment history, or maintenance priorities? Have you personally owned maintenance, equipment-installation, equipment-relocation, or manufacturing-improvement projects from planning through completion? Are you able to work on-site in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania on a regular basis? Are you willing and able to support planned shutdowns, equipment emergencies, or occasional after-hours maintenance work when required? How many maintenance employees or skilled technical employees have you directly supervised? Do you have experience with vibration monitoring, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, or documenting corrective action based on abnormal equipment conditions? What base salary range would you require to consider this position? Are you currently authorized to work in the United States? Will you now or in the future require employment-based visa sponsorship?
