Maintenance Manager

Location:

Fort Smith, AR 72916

Function:
Manufacturing

Audience:
Experienced Professional

Work Arrangement:
On Site

The Maintenance Leader is accountable for developing and executing the site maintenance and reliability strategy to deliver safe, reliable, and cost‑effective plant operations. This role leads the maintenance organization, including salaried maintenance resources, planners, supervisors, and hourly maintenance technicians, while partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, Sourcing, EHS, Quality, and Finance to meet plant business objectives.

The successful candidate will lead the Planned Maintenance pillar and advance Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Daily Management System (DMS), and Reliable Work Process (RWP) discipline across the site. This leader will build a customer‑focused maintenance team, improve asset health, reduce unplanned downtime, strengthen planning and scheduling effectiveness, and develop talent through coaching, engagement, training, and clear accountability.

• Lead the maintenance team with a strong focus on safety, environmental compliance, quality, reliability, cost, and customer service.
• Build a culture where safety is a condition of employment and risks are identified, corrected, and communicated with urgency.
• Develop and execute the maintenance and reliability strategy to improve asset health, reduce unplanned downtime, and support delivery of plant KPIs.
• Serve as the Planned Maintenance pillar leader and actively participate in TPM governance, steering team routines, assessments, and pillar master planning.
• Strengthen maintenance DMS routines, including daily huddles, KPI/KAI review, breakdown follow‑up, red‑tag closure, PM completion, and action tracking.
• Own RWP discipline by ensuring work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, documentation, and closeout processes are consistently followed.
• Partner with Operations to align priorities, approve maintenance work, coordinate equipment availability, and ensure the right work is completed at the right time.
• Ensure maintenance resources are scheduled effectively, available hours are utilized productively, and schedule breakers are minimized through proactive planning.
• Lead breakdown analysis and root‑cause problem solving to eliminate recurring losses and sustain corrective actions.
• Improve maintenance systems, preventive and predictive maintenance plans, equipment history, spare parts strategy, and SAP data integrity.
• Lead maintenance budget management, overtime control, repair cost management, contractor utilization, and capital planning support.
• Support project planning, equipment commissioning, early equipment management, asset retirement, and Management of Change requirements.
• Develop maintenance talent through coaching, performance management, skills assessment, succession planning, and structured training plans.
• Create an environment of mutual trust, respect, teamwork, engagement, accountability, and open communication across all shifts.
• Establish challenging, time‑bound targets and remove barriers through effective prioritization, collaboration, and alternative solutions.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent manufacturing leadership experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, or operations environment.
• Eligible for work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance or reliability systems, including planning, scheduling, work execution, preventive maintenance, and root‑cause problem solving.
• Experience with TPM, DMS, RWP, Lean manufacturing, or other formal continuous improvement systems preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP PM, CMMS processes, maintenance planning, spare parts management, and equipment history systems preferred.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment and support business needs across shifts, weekends, outages, and emergencies as required.

• Strong safety…