What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Manager position at Avon Protection?
Job Title: CLE Maintenance Manager
Location: Cleveland, OH
Business Unit: Team Wendy
About Avon Technologies:
We are a world leader in protective equipment, with a reputation for innovative design, high-performance quality and specialist materials expertise. Our two brands, Avon Protection and Team Wendy, supply our respiratory and head protection portfolio to customers across the globe from our manufacturing sites in the UK and North America. With over 900 talented people our shared purpose and core beliefs are to be #FIERCE about Protecting Lives. It's why we come to work - and it's what motivates us, every day, to do the best work we can.
Purpose of Position:
The Maintenance Manager ensures day-to-day operational capability for manufacturing process equipment and facility maintenance while driving a planned and strategic approach to proactive maintenance and upgrades. This role supports evolving business demands and aligns with our lean culture of single-piece flow, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement across all maintenance activities. The Maintenance Manager leads a multi-skilled team split into two shifts across two buildings, balancing time between maintaining operational capability, solving unplanned problems, executing improvement projects, and scheduled maintenance. The role also supports facility infrastructure systems, including electrical power, compressed air, and other building utilities critical to operations.
Essential Duties and/or Functions:
- Operational Readiness: Maintain manufacturing process equipment and facility systems to ensure uninterrupted production and operational capability across both buildings and shifts.
- Strategic Maintenance Planning: Develop and execute proactive maintenance strategies and upgrade plans to meet future business needs and lean manufacturing principles.
- Lead a Multi-Skilled Team: Manage and develop a diverse team of technicians with expertise in mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and fabrication disciplines, split across two shifts.
- Manage MRO Budget and Area: Control Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) inventory and associated budget.
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Develop and maintain TPM processes in both manual and electronic formats for consistency and compliance; drive an operator maintenance culture through autonomous maintenance, engaging production teams in routine care and inspections; sustain TPM pillars to maximize equipment effectiveness and reduce downtime.
- Facility Infrastructure Support: Oversee maintenance and reliability of power distribution, compressed air systems, high pressure steam heating, and other building utilities to ensure continuous operation.
- Equipment Installation & Relocation: Oversee installation of new manufacturing process equipment and relocation of existing assets to support production flow.
- Contractor Coordination: Manage external contractors for specialized maintenance and facility projects.
- Energy Efficiency: Identify and implement energy-saving initiatives aligned with sustainability goals.
- Utility Tracking: Monitor and report utility usage to corporate as required.
- Continuous Improvement: Participate in Tier Meetings and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support best practices and lean initiatives.
- Ensure alignment of processes, spare parts & Kaizen activities with other TW facilities to leverage capability and resources a needed to meet business OKR’s
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate’s degree or equivalent degree and/or equivalent working experience.
- 5 years of management/supervisory experience in a maintenance and or facilities role.
- 5 years minimum of skilled trades work in a manufacturing environment
- PC literate with strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint Skills
- Proficient in multiple technical disciplines, analytics, and assurance techniques
- Must have the ability to lead, motivate, and develop personnel, particularly with project and cross-functional teams
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, procedures manual, and to comprehend basic instructions.
- Ability to communicate effectively with supervisor, lead, co-workers and other personnel. Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English.
- Experience with plumbing, pipe fitting, welding & fabrication, and electrical.
- Intermediate math skills are needed to include the ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, to practical situations. Must be able to measure using the metric system.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Forklift and airlift experience.
Essential Skills
- Hands-On Leadership: Ability to step in and resolve issues when the team cannot, ensuring operational stability and production continuity.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results under pressure.
- Practical problem-solving approach with ownership mindset.
Minimum Qualifications
- Associate’s Degree or equivalent experience; Bachelor’s preferred.
- 7 years of maintenance management or supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Skilled in troubleshooting manufacturing process equipment (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic systems).
- Proficient in CMMS and Microsoft Office tools.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Engineering.
- Experience in TPM systems and lean manufacturing environments.
- Experience of working in a lean manufacturing environment with single piece flow manufacture and culture of continuous improvement through Kaizen
- Knowledge of plumbing, pipe fitting, welding, fabrication, medium pressure steam equipment, and electrical systems.
- Forklift and aerial lift experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Performance Metrics
- Uptime and reliability of manufacturing process equipment across both buildings.
- TPM implementation maturity and operator engagement levels.
- Reduction in unplanned downtime.
- Cost control and adherence to maintenance budget.
- Successful execution of strategic upgrades supporting lean flow.
- Effective coverage and coordination for two shifts and multi-skilled team performance.
- Reliability of facility infrastructure systems (power, air, utilities).
What We Offer:
- Flexible Schedule
- Competitive Compensation Package
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401k Matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Initiatives
Internal Relationships:
Maintenance Team; Operations/Production Department; Facilities Management; Safety and Compliance Department; Engineering and Technical Support; Human Resources (HR); Procurement and Supply Chain; Finance and Budgeting; Senior Management.
External Relationships:
Vendors and Suppliers; Contractors; Regulatory Agencies; Industry Associations; Emergency Services; Consultants; Customers or Clients; Local Community.
This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserved the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.
Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.
To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within Avon that may present access to export controlled technical data, Avon must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at Avon's sole election.
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.
To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within Avon that may present access to export controlled technical data, Avon must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at Avon's sole election.
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without a sponsorship for employment visa status (e.e. H1B status).
The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in Cleveland, OH is $84,000 to $117,000 annually. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, type and years of experience within the industry, education, etc.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
Salary : $84,000 - $117,000