Industrial Facilities Maintenance Operations Manager

Job Description

Job DescriptionOwn the Maintenance Operation

Join a high-performance team where you will run a modern maintenance organization focused on safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Your Impact

• Drive daily execution and performance: set goals, measure results, and coach a skilled maintenance team.
• Lead the Preventive Maintenance program—plan, coordinate, and optimize schedules to protect uptime.
• Steward all site utilities and facility systems: electric distribution, compressed air, boiler operations, and hazardous waste.
• Diagnose failures, identify worn components, and procure replacements quickly and cost-effectively.
• Maintain strict adherence to safe work practices, including expert-level LOTO compliance.
• Control maintenance budgets and continuously improve repair quality and asset reliability.
• Engineer equipment improvements to increase efficiency and reduce cost.
• Manage contractor activities from bid through build; collaborate with machine shops to fabricate parts.
• Oversee plant projects: equipment design/development, major overhauls, and relocations.
• Partner with Production Management to implement productivity-enhancing machine modifications.
• Strengthen the safety program; support accident investigations and environmental initiatives.
• Design and implement machine guarding systems.
• Deliver annual training (lockout/tagout, confined space, fire extinguisher, Hazmat, etc.).
• Act as primary liaison for State/Federal inspectors, local Fire Department, insurance audits, and annual boiler inspections.
• Collaborate closely with production, printing, administrative, and maintenance teams; interface with contractors, insurers, and regulatory agencies (OSHA, EPA, AIB, ASI), as well as city utilities, water/sewer departments, the fire marshal, and vendors.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of plant maintenance experience.
• Successful supervisory experience and draftsman/drafting background.
• Extensive knowledge of inline manufacturing equipment and processes; preferred exposure to extruders, bag machines, winders, blenders, resin vacuum conveying, and railcar unloading systems.
• Knowledge of printing/paper converting equipment; conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and lubrication preferred.
• Capability to calculate gear ratios and pitch; proficient with welders, grinders, lathes, and cutting equipment.
• Demonstrated application of Lean, TPM, and 5S methodologies.
• Proficient with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong electrical fault-finding skills; foundational PLC and VFD experience.
• Expertise in lockout/tagout systems.

Core Skills

• PLC troubleshooting; equipment and facilities troubleshooting.
• Preventive maintenance strategy and execution.
• 120/208/240/480V systems; electrical diagnostics.
• Leadership, coaching, and mentoring.
• Blending and pneumatics troubleshooting; plastic extrusion.
• Manufacturing environment experience; blueprint reading; exceptional communication.