Industry: Manufacturing & Production

Job Category: Manufacturing – Other Manufacturing

The objective of the Maintenance Manager is to lead a broad range of services that support the plant wide maintenance and production organizations. The Maintenance Manager will develop and lead the Central Shops including the Machine Shop, Truck Repair Shop, and Roll Shops. This will also include ownership to drive attainment in two key Plantwide and Central Maintenance and Engineering Department objectives: 1) Environmental and Health and Safety (EHS) for the department, and 2) Cost controls for both the plant and department. 

The Maintenance Manager will supervise an area of approximately 10 salaried resources including technicians, planners, and Team Leaders. The Maintenance Manager will oversee supervision through the team leaders of approximately 100 hourly resources including mechanics, machinists, roll grinders, and truck repair mechanics, and apprentices. The Manager will also support the plant’s craft training team in the development and execution of the apprenticeship programs within the central shops.

The Maintenance Manager will report to the Maintenance and Engineering Manager of DPW & Satellites.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or Engineering
•  5 years of experience with the following:
• Machine repair
• Maintenance management
• Manufacturing industry
• Minimum of three years as department manager, including direct supervision of salaried staff and responsibility for hourly craft employees with demonstrated performance leading the team to improve KPIs and achieve targeted results.
• Minimum of three years of experience managing multimillion-dollar department budgets
• Ability to lead organizational change.
• Good communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in an organization including hourly craft up to Executive leadership.
• Ability to identify and implement cost reduction initiatives.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility
• This position is in person and the location is Davenport, Iowa.