Manager Maintenance - Silver Spring, MD

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Silver Spring, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for all aspects of the Maintenance Department, including managing a program to ensure production and support equipment, buildings, and grounds are properly maintained. The role leads and develops a team focused on customer service and collaboration, manages an annual budget that flexes with production volume, and works with plant leadership to meet established KPIs. The position develops and improves maintenance plans and schedules for corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance; monitors performance and training requirements; and develops action plans when performance measures fall below target. It also plans and executes capital expenditure projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget, and supports management-system best practices, including ISO and KORE Standards. The work environment is approximately 25% office-based and 75% industrial. It is noisy and not temperature-controlled, with elevated equipment noise requiring hearing protection. Some outside work may be required. Weekend work, including some holidays, is required as scheduled to support customer demand and project work.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience as a Maintenance Manager in a similar business.
High school diploma or GED.
Associate degree or up to 3 years of college or technical school.
Strong understanding of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), PLC networking, hydraulics, electrical systems, and beverage equipment operations and repair.
Ability to manage projects and understand their financial impact on plant cost centers or capital budgets.
Knowledge of project management, with intermediate to advanced skill.
Ability to influence peers’ decision-making and communicate with all organizational levels, including presentation, negotiation, and facilitation skills.
Advanced PC skills.
Strong planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Professionalism, integrity, self-motivation, proactive participation, and ability to encourage and motivate others.
Ability to work weekends and some holidays as scheduled.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a proactive maintenance-system environment, including work with ISO Standards.
Experience using SAP Maintenance.
PLC background.
Knowledge acquired through 5 to 7 years of work experience.
Four-year degree in Engineering, Business, or a technical discipline; experience may offset this preference.

Responsibilities

Manage, lead, and motivate the maintenance team by communicating company goals, safety practices, and deadlines, and by coaching, training, and managing performance.
Implement continuous-improvement methods while maintaining customer focus and modeling company purpose, values, and servant leadership.
Develop and continuously improve a department business plan to maintain facility assets through effective scheduling and oversight of corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance.
Collaborate with plant leadership to achieve Annual Business Plan goals and KPI targets.
Develop and implement action plans to address below-target performance, participating in meetings, management reviews, and audits.
Identify facility asset financial needs and manage the annual department budget, flexing spending to align with production volume and business needs.
Monitor monthly employee training requirements and ensure timely completion.
Plan and execute capital expenditure projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery, required upfront FATs, and timely project closeout with Engineering and Accounting.
Support and participate in Management System initiatives and best practices, including ISO and KORE Standards.
Manage in-house and capital projects, including scheduling contractors, vendors, and production-related work and managing financial impacts on plant cost centers and capital budgets.