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Maintenance Manager

Baxters North America Inc
Cincinnati, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 12/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/11/2026

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversees all maintenance activities related to the company owned and occupied facilities.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED

  • Obey GMP’s and PPE’s for production areas.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead maintenance department, and set department strategy, aligned with key principles of TPM, to improve equipment OEE.
  • Manage and develop operational equipment maintenance supervisors, as well as mechanics.
  • Implement systematic training to ensure that proper techniques are being utilized when repair or preventive maintenance activities are being performed.
  • Optimize Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to develop Preventive Maintenance schedules and instructions to maximize equipment uptime.
  • Manage maintenance department budget.
  • Identify and execute cost savings, and continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Perform analysis of equipment downtime to further develop and recommend Predictive Maintenance activities.
  • Collaborate with production and supporting departments to complete maintenance activities while minimizing food safety and service risks to the business.
  • Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

  • High school diploma, 2-year trade/technical school mechanic program (or comparable).
  • Must have at least three (3) years experience as a maintenance manager of mid-sized consumer goods manufacturing facility; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Lean and TPM implementation experience. Demonstrated success in championing cultural shifts to adapt Lean principals. Proven track record of improved equipment reliability through Total Productive Maintenance practices.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job assignment an individual must meet the required job specific training located in the Training Register.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to effectively communicate up, down, and across the organization. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to use Algebra, Geometry, and basic Trigonometry to determine: distances, angles, ratios, percent and other measurements.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several, concrete variables in standardized situations.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Must be able to analyze and repair assigned machinery and equipment. Direct and coordinate assigned maintenance personnel.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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