Director of Maintenance & Plant Engineering

Nesco Resource•Manchester, TN

About The Position

The Director of Maintenance and Plant Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for plant engineering, facilities, maintenance, utilities, and capital-project execution. This role is accountable for safe, reliable, and cost-effective equipment and infrastructure; improved plant uptime and manufacturing capability; development of engineering and skilled-trades personnel; and delivery of capital projects supporting the company's safety, quality, delivery, cost, customer, and growth objectives. The position leads maintenance and reliability strategies, establishes performance targets, oversees capital planning and project execution, and ensures compliance with applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, customer, and company requirements. It partners across functions and with customers and suppliers to support launches, capacity, operational readiness, and continuous improvement. The role is based in the Manchester, Tennessee area, with a Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. schedule and a need to work outside core hours when operational support requires it. The stated annual salary range is $140,000–$160,000, with a 20% bonus.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field; equivalent combinations of education and progressively responsible technical leadership experience may be considered.
Eight to ten years of progressive plant engineering, maintenance, reliability, facilities, or capital-project experience in a manufacturing environment, including leadership of managers, engineers, or skilled-trades teams.
Demonstrated experience with preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance; root-cause analysis; equipment reliability; spare-parts strategy; and maintenance performance metrics.
Demonstrated experience developing and executing capital plans and managing equipment projects from business case and specification through installation, commissioning, validation, and acceptance.
Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, automation, controls, robotics, tooling, utilities, and facility systems.
Proficiency with computerized maintenance management systems, project-management software, Microsoft Excel, data analysis, and reporting tools.
Knowledge of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, risk assessment, contractor management, and applicable safety and environmental requirements.
Demonstrated written, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate with executives, employees, customers, and suppliers.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, respond to urgent plant needs, and work outside normal business hours when operational support requires it.
Ability to manage competing priorities independently and through teams.

Nice To Haves

Automotive manufacturing experience, strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 14001, customer-specific requirements, launch readiness, and disciplined problem-solving.
Experience with the company's core manufacturing processes.
CAD familiarity.

Responsibilities

Lead plant engineering, facilities, maintenance, utilities, equipment reliability, and technical support activities.
Establish and execute maintenance and reliability strategies to improve safety, equipment availability, plant uptime, and lifecycle cost.
Set targets and review preventive and predictive maintenance compliance, downtime, mean time between failures, mean time to repair, overall equipment effectiveness, maintenance cost, and schedule attainment.
Address recurring equipment failures through root-cause analysis, corrective action, and verification of effectiveness.
Develop and maintain critical-equipment, spare-parts, obsolescence, and business-continuity plans.
Lead annual capital-expenditure planning, project prioritization, budget development, forecasting, and approval recommendations.
Direct equipment specifications, supplier technical evaluations, procurement support, installation, commissioning, capability validation, and final acceptance of capital equipment.
Manage capital-project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and return-on-investment commitments; communicate project status and corrective actions to executive leadership.
Ensure facilities, utilities, equipment, and engineering activities comply with applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
Partner with Production, Quality, Safety, Purchasing, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, customers, and suppliers on launches, capacity needs, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
Build organizational capability through workforce and succession planning, technical training, performance management, and development of engineering and skilled-trades personnel.
Allocate personnel, contractors, and technical resources for plant priorities, customer requirements, planned shutdowns, and emergency response.
Standardize engineering and maintenance systems, documentation, project controls, and work practices.
Promote lean manufacturing, data-based decision-making, energy efficiency, automation, and cost-reduction initiatives.
Perform other duties as required.