Senior Manager, Facilities Maintenance and Planning

ATI•Cudahy, WI

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Facilities Maintenance and Planning leads facilities maintenance, maintenance planning and scheduling, plant outage coordination, and safety-related maintenance execution across assigned facility areas. The role provides leadership for facility infrastructure, buildings and grounds, safety-related work orders, corrective actions, and improvement initiatives to keep the plant safe, reliable, and operationally effective. The position leads the facilities maintenance and planning organization, including maintenance leaders, schedulers, planners, craft resources, and contractor support. It establishes a disciplined, reliable, and business-aligned operating model for infrastructure, buildings and grounds, safety-related work, outages, and maintenance schedules. The role also leads coordination between maintenance priorities, equipment availability, facility needs, safety work, and production requirements.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in maintenance, operations, or a related industrial manufacturing role is preferred.
Experience with CMMS systems and maintenance backlog/work-order management.
Ability to understand production requirements and translate them into maintenance priorities and equipment availability requirements.
Working knowledge of industrial maintenance practices, preventive/predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, and work management systems.
Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
Ability to prioritize work based on safety, equipment risk, facility risk, production impact, asset condition, resource availability, and business-critical needs.
Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in heavy manufacturing, forging, metals, foundry, steel, aerospace manufacturing, or similar equipment-intensive operations is strongly preferred.
Experience leading in a union-represented manufacturing environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead daily and weekly coordination of maintenance priorities, equipment availability, facility needs, safety work, and production requirements across assigned areas.
Lead maintenance leaders, schedulers, planners, and craft resources to align priorities, establish accountability, and ensure consistent execution of facilities maintenance and planning processes.
Establish the planning and scheduling operating model, including work identification, prioritization, planning standards, schedule governance, outage readiness, and backlog management expectations.
Own maintenance planning and facilities performance measures, including schedule compliance, backlog health, safety work order completion, outage readiness, emergency work reduction, contractor performance, and planning effectiveness.
Protect the frozen maintenance schedule and ensure schedule changes are reviewed, justified, approved, and escalated when required.
Govern break-in work, priority changes, and schedule exceptions based on safety, asset risk, production impact, and business need, with decisions made at the appropriate leadership level.
Lead management of facility infrastructure, buildings, grounds, utilities, and site support systems to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation.
Prioritize building and grounds work based on employee safety, operational continuity, asset condition, production impact, and long-term facility reliability.
Promote proactive facilities maintenance focused on hazard elimination, planned work, preventive maintenance, housekeeping, and infrastructure reliability.
Ensure required prerequisites are addressed before scheduled work begins, including labor, parts, tooling, permits, equipment and facility access, contractor readiness, LOTO and EHS requirements, and production coordination.
Manage the facilities maintenance backlog and ensure building, grounds, infrastructure, and safety-related work orders are reviewed, prioritized, and completed.
Monitor schedule compliance and review systemic causes of schedule disruption, including planning gaps, resource constraints, parts delays, equipment availability issues, contractor delays, and facility access limitations.
Lead planning of facility outages, utility shutdowns, infrastructure repairs, and contractor-supported work.