Maintenance Manager

Grede • St. Cloud, MN

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About The Position

The Maintenance Manager serves as the strategic leader and owner of all 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 meet production, quality, delivery, and financial objectives safely. Pay is $130,000–$150,000, based on experience.

The manager owns plant equipment uptime and operational readiness, reliability of critical manufacturing assets, maintenance budget and capital project objectives, and development of a skilled and accountable maintenance workforce. The role also drives continuous improvement in OEE, MTBF, preventive maintenance compliance, and maintenance productivity. Grede describes itself as a Fair Chance and equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the application and employment process.

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

• Own plant equipment reliability, asset performance, and maintenance excellence.
• Develop and execute a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy focused on uptime, production risk reduction, and business growth.
• Establish reliability-centered maintenance programs to improve asset availability, extend equipment life, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Lead strategies to sustainably reduce unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures.
• Promote preventive maintenance, condition monitoring, predictive technologies, and disciplined work management.
• Establish and manage reliability metrics, including equipment uptime, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, and maintenance cost performance.
• Use maintenance and production data to identify reliability losses, prioritize improvements, and allocate resources to high-impact areas.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain leaders to align equipment reliability with 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 disruption.
• Develop long-range capital plans and asset replacement strategies based on risk, reliability trends, lifecycle costs, and business requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives to increase throughput, operational stability, and manufacturing performance.
• Meet objectives for equipment uptime, operational readiness, downtime reduction, critical asset reliability, maintenance budgets, capital projects, workforce development, asset management, and continuous improvement metrics.

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