Maintenance Project Manager

Advanced Integration Technology•Mobile, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Project Manager directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, and completion of productive equipment Troubleshooting & Maintenance activities. This role involves performing these duties personally or through subordinate AIT or contract employees within a customer plant, operating under a Maintenance Contract. The position requires ensuring equipment availability through preventive maintenance, leading skilled technicians, utilizing diagnostic tools for automated equipment, performing root cause analysis of failures, monitoring costs, attending customer meetings, identifying improvement opportunities, and providing 24/7 emergency support. Safety is paramount, and the role includes developing training for Maintenance Technicians and acting as the face of AIT on-site, identifying new business opportunities.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED Required.
Minimum of a two-year technical degree.
Must be able to obtain, maintain and/or currently possess a Secret security clearance.
Performs routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices.
Behaves consistently and predictably; is reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations and diligently follows through on commitments and consistently meets deadlines.
Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
Knowledge of computer applications including email, databases, word-processing program and spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Office).
Respond and follow up to a customer’s inquiry or problem in a timely and effective manner.
Identifies problems and review relevant information to develop options, then implement the solutions.
Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

Nice To Haves

CPMM Certification or a trade school apprenticeship are a plus.
Team Leadership and Management experience preferred.
Effectively works with CMMS (SAP, MAXIMO, e-Maintenance, etc.) to create work orders, set up maintenance schedules, manage spare parts, analyze data, generate reports for the customer.

Responsibilities

Planning and execution of Preventive Maintenance activities to ensure equipment availability in the customer plant.
Leading a team of skilled technicians (an AIT Technical Support Team) in the customer plant in all Troubleshooting and minor repair activities.
Utilizing work experience and knowledge of PLCs, CAN Bus or other diagnostic and programming tools to keep automated equipment running.
Performing root cause analysis of equipment failures.
Monitoring and controlling costs by effective scheduling of available internal and external resources.
Attending customer production and planning meetings, per customer requirements.
Identifying opportunities for improvement and advising the customer on the course of action.
Answering or returning customer calls within a required time 24/7, assigning technicians available at the plant or coming in after hours to help the customer with an emergency equipment breakdown repair.
Ensuring Maintenance tasks are performed in a safe manner and being responsible for Maintenance team members’ safety.
Performing skills assessment and developing cross-functional on-the-job and formal classroom training for Maintenance Technicians.
Effectively leading AIT on-site Maintenance team to provide excellent service to the customer.
Acting as the face of AIT in the customer plant – ethical, competent, polite, willing and able to generate new business opportunities by identifying problems within or outside the contracted scope of work and offering solutions to the customer.
Performing other duties as assigned.