Maintenance Senior Manager
About The Position
Are you ready to lead a dynamic team in transforming maintenance operations and advancing groundbreaking automation within the LEGO Manufacturing Virginia facility? Lead the charge in revolutionizing maintenance at the Virginia LEGO production facility. Drive innovation and automation to ensure equipment reliability and operational excellence in a brand new, highly automated environment. The Maintenance function ensures reliable operation, upkeep, and continuous improvement of packaging production equipment across LEGO Manufacturing Virginia. This includes mechanical, electrical, and automation systems crucial for meeting safety, quality, and delivery standards. The department is currently responsible for maintaining equipment reliability and efficiency in existing operations while preparing for the future transition to a highly automated manufacturing environment at the new LEGO Group facility. Maintenance plays a key role in building the technical foundation, processes, and team. The Maintenance Senior Manager provides strategic and hands-on leadership for the site’s maintenance organization, ensuring equipment reliability, operational uptime, and readiness for future automation and technology integration. This role is responsible for building a proactive maintenance culture that drives safety, reliability, and continuous improvement across all systems and teams. The Senior Manager will play a meaningful role in crafting the future-state maintenance structure and aligning current operations with global standards and protocols. This position requires both strategic foresight and direct operational engagement — leading teams on the shop floor while influencing the development, readiness, and long-term strategy for maintenance within LEGO Manufacturing Virginia.
Requirements
- Progressive experience in maintenance or engineering roles within a manufacturing environment.
- Leadership experience managing teams in a high-volume, multi-shift operation.
- Proven success in implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs with a strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems.
- Proven experience supporting site expansions, capital projects, or new equipment commissioning.
- Skilled in root cause analysis, reliability engineering, and data-driven decision making with proficiency in CMMS systems and maintenance planning tools.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced education in engineering, maintenance management, or related field is highly desired.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of all packaging maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient equipment operation.
- Develop and implement the maintenance strategy for transitioning to future manufacturing sites.
- Lead and develop maintenance professionals, encouraging skill growth and engagement.
- Lead preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime and extend equipment life.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Global Maintenance colleagues to implement global standards for equipment and automation.
- Partner with Operations, Facilities, and QEHS teams to align maintenance priorities with production goals.
- Build organizational capability to support future technologies, including robotics and automated systems.
Benefits
- Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
- Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
- Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
