Maintenance Manager

Grede • St. Cloud, MN

4d • $130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager serves as the strategic leader and owner of plant maintenance, reliability, and asset management functions. The role is accountable for developing and executing a comprehensive maintenance and reliability strategy to maximize equipment availability, minimize unplanned downtime, and protect the facility’s ability to safely meet production, quality, delivery, and financial objectives. Pay is $130,000–$150,000, based on experience.

The position is directly accountable for plant equipment uptime and operational readiness; reducing unplanned downtime; reliability and performance of critical manufacturing assets; meeting maintenance budget and capital project objectives; developing a skilled, engaged, and accountable maintenance workforce; executing asset management strategies that support production and business objectives; and continuously improving OEE, MTBF, PM compliance, and maintenance productivity.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of industrial maintenance experience, including progressive leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated success leading maintenance operations in a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, CMMS systems, capital project management, budgeting, and maintenance best practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the plant’s primary owner of equipment reliability, asset performance, and maintenance excellence.
• Develop and execute a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy focused on maximizing equipment uptime, reducing production risk, and supporting business growth objectives.
• Establish reliability-centered maintenance programs to improve asset availability, extend equipment life, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Develop and execute strategies to sustainably reduce unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures.
• Drive a proactive maintenance culture centered on prevention, condition monitoring, predictive technologies, and disciplined work management processes.
• Establish and manage reliability metrics, including equipment uptime, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule compliance, and maintenance cost performance.
• Use maintenance and production data to identify reliability losses, prioritize improvement opportunities, and allocate resources to high-impact areas.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain leaders to ensure equipment reliability supports customer commitments and production requirements.
• Lead plant-wide asset risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies for critical equipment and systems.
• Ensure maintenance planning and scheduling prioritize work that protects production capacity and minimizes operational disruption.
• Develop long-range capital plans and asset replacement strategies based on risk, reliability trends, lifecycle costs, and business requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that increase throughput, improve operational stability, and enhance manufacturing performance.
• Manage maintenance budget and capital project objectives.
• Develop a skilled, engaged, and accountable maintenance workforce.
• Execute asset management strategies that support production requirements and business objectives.
• Continuously improve OEE, MTBF, PM compliance, and maintenance productivity.

Benefits

• Wellness programs and access to a Worksite Wellness Center, including for family members.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and supplemental life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• PPE allowances.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed