Corp Maintenance Manager

Scot Forge•Spring Grove, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Scot Forge is seeking a Corporate Functional Manager, Maintenance to provide enterprise-wide leadership for maintenance operations across its manufacturing facilities. This high-impact role is responsible for developing maintenance strategy, reliability programs, and leadership capability across the organization. The manager will partner with Plant Managers and functional leaders to improve equipment performance, standardize best practices, and drive transformational change across multiple locations, including plants in Spring Grove, IL, Franklin Park, IL, and Clinton, WI. The role offers an opportunity to shape maintenance excellence across an entire manufacturing enterprise, moving operations from reactive maintenance to proactive reliability by building systems, developing talent, and creating consistency across sites. Success will be measured by improved uptime, strengthened maintenance teams, and support for the company's long-term growth.

Requirements

10+ years of maintenance leadership experience within manufacturing, preferably heavy industrial environments
Demonstrated success leading operational improvement, reliability initiatives, and organizational change
Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability practices, and industrial equipment maintenance
Ability to influence teams and drive results across multiple locations
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship and able to pass a pre-employment drug screening

Nice To Haves

Experience in metals manufacturing, forging, steel, machining, heat treat, foundry, or similar operations strongly preferred
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field preferred; equivalent experience considered

Responsibilities

Enterprise-wide maintenance strategy, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives
Reliability and performance of critical production, mobile, facility, and infrastructure assets
Preventive and predictive maintenance programs, performance metrics, and capital investment planning
Development of maintenance leadership, technical talent, and a culture of safety and accountability
Lead and influence maintenance organizations across multiple facilities through servant leadership
Implement standardized maintenance and reliability best practices to improve uptime and operational performance
Develop maintenance leaders through coaching, training, succession planning, and talent development
Establish KPIs, support capital projects, and partner with Operations and Engineering on reliability improvements
Ensure maintenance activities support a safe, compliant, and efficient work environment