Senior Manager, Maintenance & Facilities

Electron Energy Corporation•Lancaster Township, PA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Maintenance & Facilities provides strategic leadership for all maintenance, reliability, and facility operations across EEC's two manufacturing locations. This role is accountable for developing and executing a unified maintenance and facilities strategy that maximizes equipment reliability, supports production performance, ensures regulatory compliance, and optimizes lifecycle costs. Working through site-level leadership, the Sr. Manager drives standardization, continuous improvement, capital planning, talent development, and operational excellence to support a low-volume, high-mix manufacturing environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, or related field.
Minimum 10 years in maintenance, facilities, or manufacturing operations; experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing and multi-site environments preferred.
Minimum 5 years leading maintenance/facilities teams, with demonstrated experience overseeing multiple sites, shifts, or locations.
This position may require access to ITAR-controlled technical data and services. As such, all applicants must be U.S. persons, as defined by ITAR, to be considered for this role. A U.S. person is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or individual with protected status under U.S. immigration laws. Applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered for the position.

Nice To Haves

experience in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing and multi-site environments preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level leadership and accountability for maintenance and facilities performance across both sites.
Standardize maintenance strategies, PM/PdM programs, CMMS practices, and facility management processes across both sites.
Lead, coach, and develop site-level maintenance/facilities leads, ensuring consistent execution and a strong bench across locations.
Allocate resources, staffing, and capital across both sites based on relative risk, production priority, and business need.
Travel regularly between both sites to maintain visibility, drive consistency, and support site leadership.
Ensure maintenance and facility operations comply with OSHA regulations, environmental requirements, electrical safety standards, and company EHS policies.
Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment uptime at both sites.
Oversee troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance of diverse manufacturing equipment across the two-site portfolio.
Implement continuous improvement strategies to enhance reliability and production efficiency site-to-site.
Develop long-term asset management strategies, including lifecycle planning, equipment replacement, and facility infrastructure investments.
Oversee day-to-day facilities operations at both sites to ensure smooth and safe operations.
Manage service contracts cost-effectively across both locations while maintaining high service quality.
Ensure facilities teams consistently provide positive and prompt responses to internal requests at each site.
Maintain building systems including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and safety systems across both facilities.
Plan and execute facility upgrades, renovations, and compliance initiatives.
Develop, prepare, and explain the combined annual maintenance and facilities budget across both sites.
Monitor maintenance and facilities expenditures at each site, ensuring cost-effective operations enterprise-wide.
Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs), equipment uptime, maintenance costs, and safety metrics by site and in aggregate.
Own the organization's CMMS strategy, ensuring accurate asset histories, PM optimization, work order management, inventory integration, and maintenance reporting across both sites.
Drive innovation by developing and implementing best practices that scale across multiple sites.
Support new product introductions and process changes from a maintenance and facility perspective at both locations.
Apply Lean, TPM, and other continuous improvement methodologies to optimize operations enterprise-wide.
Lead, coach, and develop maintenance and facilities staff across both sites.
Build succession depth by developing site-level leads capable of running day-to-day operations independently.
Promote a culture of safety, quality, operational excellence, and accountability consistently across locations.
Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Procurement leadership at both sites to align maintenance strategies with manufacturing requirements.
Act as a key partner in problem-solving and operational planning at the multi-site level.
Perform additional duties as required to support operational and strategic objectives.