Facilities and Manufacturing Support Manager

Apache Stainless Equipment Corporation•Beaver Dam, WI

About The Position

The Facilities and Manufacturing Support Manager provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for Apache Stainless’ facilities, manufacturing infrastructure, maintenance systems, equipment reliability, and assigned manufacturing support functions. The position ensures facilities and equipment remain safe and reliable and that approved new parts and changes are translated into accurate manufacturing information and released through the ERP system in time to support production. The role leads Maintenance personnel and manufacturing support employees responsible for CNC programming, nesting, ERP change processing, and new-part BOM and MOM setup. The manager leads capital and infrastructure projects, manages departmental resources, and works across Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Purchasing, IT, and Finance. The position combines leadership and process ownership with hands-on support when needed to meet production commitments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Facilities Management, Operations Management, or a related field preferred; equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience will be considered.
Five or more years of progressive experience in manufacturing facilities, industrial maintenance, engineering, reliability, or capital project management preferred.
Two or more years of supervisory or team-leadership experience preferred.
Working knowledge of industrial facilities, manufacturing equipment, utilities, building systems, and maintenance practices.
Ability to translate operational needs into practical scopes, priorities, budgets, schedules, and action plans.
Strong project-management, problem-solving, organizational, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
Ability to lead employees, manage competing priorities, and coordinate work across departments while maintaining accountability.
Clear professional communication with employees, leadership, contractors, suppliers, and regulatory contacts.
Working knowledge of applicable environmental and workplace-safety requirements and ability to identify when specialized expertise is needed.
Comfort using business software, CMMS platforms, Microsoft 365 tools, dashboards, and data to manage work and communicate results.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, understand fabrication sequences, and verify consistency among drawings, programs, manufacturing methods, and ERP records.
Ability to prioritize urgent production-support needs while sustaining maintenance, facilities, and capital-project responsibilities.
Willingness and ability to perform hands-on ERP processing when needed.
Must be able to safely access manufacturing and facility areas, including areas requiring stairs, ladders, or work around operating equipment, with reasonable accommodation as applicable.
Must follow required personal protective equipment requirements and site safety rules.

Nice To Haves

Experience in metal fabrication, welding, custom manufacturing, automated equipment, or similar industrial environments.
Experience implementing or administering a CMMS, asset-management system, preventive maintenance program, or reliability program.
Experience managing contractors, capital budgets, equipment installations, and facility modifications.
Experience with CNC programming, CAD/CAM, laser or other sheet-metal nesting software, and SolidWorks or comparable 3D CAD tools.
Experience creating and maintaining ERP part records, BOMs, MOMs or routings, and processing engineering changes in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop Maintenance personnel and assigned technical resources; establish priorities, responsibilities, training expectations, and performance standards.
Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to identify and implement improvements in reliability, workflow, capacity, ergonomics, quality, and operating efficiency.
Support automation and technology initiatives by evaluating infrastructure requirements, installation risks, maintainability, utilities, controls, and long-term support needs.
Promote employee involvement in identifying facility, maintenance, safety, and process concerns, and ensure recommendations are evaluated through a defined prioritization process.
Communicate project status, maintenance risks, resource needs, and performance trends to leadership and affected departments.
Work with the Safety team to identify facility and equipment hazards, implement controls, and support safe work practices for employees and contractors.
Ensure facility and maintenance activities comply with applicable environmental, safety, building, fire, and other regulatory requirements.
Support environmental programs involving waste management, spill prevention, air or water controls, chemical storage, energy use, and required inspections or records.
Maintain contractor safety, qualification, insurance, access, and performance expectations.
Identify facility-related business continuity risks and develop response or mitigation plans for critical equipment failures, utility interruptions, weather events, and other operational disruptions.
Support emergency preparedness, response planning, and recovery activities related to facilities and utilities.
Develop and manage departmental operating and capital budgets; monitor spending, forecast needs, and report significant variances.
Select, coordinate, and evaluate contractors, service providers, and suppliers using appropriate technical, safety, quality, service, and cost criteria.
Oversee facility-service programs such as cleaning, grounds, snow removal, pest control, waste handling, building access, and other contracted services.
Negotiate service agreements and maintain appropriate schedules for inspections, certifications, and recurring maintenance.
Establish, maintain, and report performance measures for maintenance, facility services, projects, budgets, and asset reliability.
Use data, employee input, maintenance history, risk, and business priorities to improve work methods and allocate resources effectively.
Develop and maintain procedures, work instructions, records, and controls to support the Business Management System.
Participate in audits, corrective actions, management reviews, and risk-based planning involving facilities, equipment, environmental controls, or maintenance processes.
Keep current on technologies, regulations, and practices affecting manufacturing facilities, reliability, automation, energy management, and infrastructure.
Lead maintenance and manufacturing-support work to help meet production commitments, including hands-on ERP processing when needed.
Oversee performance measures that may include preventive maintenance completion, downtime, work-order quality, project performance, spending, utilities, contractor performance, risk closure, manufacturing-support turnaround, BOM/MOM/program accuracy, production delays, rework, material utilization, and scrap.