Director of Maintenance

Maintenance Director

Position Summary

The Maintenance Director is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight of all maintenance, reliability, facilities, and asset management functions across the manufacturing operation. This leadership role develops and executes maintenance strategies that maximize equipment reliability, improve operational efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance, and support world-class manufacturing performance.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Develop and execute the company's maintenance and asset reliability strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Provide leadership and direction to maintenance managers, maintenance engineers, planners, supervisors, and technical teams.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing maintenance leadership and succession plans.
• Establish departmental goals, performance expectations, and accountability across all maintenance functions.
• Foster a culture of safety, teamwork, continuous improvement, innovation, and associate engagement.

Maintenance Operations

• Direct all preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Ensure maximum equipment uptime, production reliability, and operational efficiency across all manufacturing assets.
• Lead emergency response and recovery efforts for critical equipment failures.
• Standardize maintenance practices across all departments and facilities.
• Develop long-term maintenance strategies that extend equipment life while reducing maintenance costs.

Reliability & Asset Management

• Drive predictive maintenance technologies.
• Establish equipment lifecycle management strategies including replacement planning and asset optimization.
• Oversee root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and corrective action implementation for significant equipment failures.
• Implement best-in-class reliability practices
• Develop standardized maintenance processes, procedures, and workflows across the organization.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce downtime, improve productivity, and lower operating costs.
• Utilize data and analytics to improve maintenance planning, scheduling, and resource allocation.
• Lead initiatives to improve maintenance planning, preventive maintenance compliance, and spare parts optimization.
• Benchmark maintenance performance against industry standards and implement best practices.

Associate Leadership

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop maintenance associates.
• Oversee workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, succession planning, and associate development.
• Promote associate engagement, accountability, and professional growth throughout the maintenance organization.

Manufacturing Support

• Partner closely with Operations to align maintenance activities with production schedules.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Continuous Improvement teams on equipment design improvements and new equipment installations.
• Support Quality initiatives to improve product consistency and manufacturing capability.
• Ensure maintenance resources effectively support changing production demands

Additional Key Competencies

• Leadership and associate development
• Performance management and coaching
• Project and process management
• Maintenance planning and scheduling
• Resource allocation and workforce coordination
• Budget and cost management
• Conflict resolution and decision-making
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Continuous improvement leadership
• Strategic planning and operational execution
• Change management
• Strong organizational and communication skills

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related field.
• MBA or Master's degree preferred.
• 15 years of progressive maintenance leadership experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 7 years leading maintenance managers, engineers, supervisors, and multi-site maintenance organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading maintenance operations in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Extensive experience with preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Strong understanding of industrial automation, PLCs, robotics, electrical systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and manufacturing equipment.
• Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing initiatives.

Key Competencies

• Executive leadership
• Strategic planning and execution
• Organizational development
• Maintenance and reliability management
• Manufacturing operations leadership
• Asset lifecycle management
• Financial and budget management
• Capital project management
• Process improvement and operational excellence
• Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement
• Change management
• Associate coaching, development and succession planning
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Data-driven decision making
• Negotiation and relationship management
• Crisis management and problem solving
• Results-oriented leadership