Global Maintenance and Contractor Director

Position: Global Maintenance and Contractor Performance Director

Job Description:

Job Title

Corporate Director – Global Maintenance & Contractor Management Programs

Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career. The Impact You'll Make in this role

The Director of Global Maintenance & Contractor Management Programs is responsible for developing, standardizing, and deploying maintenance strategies and contractor management processes across all manufacturing sites worldwide. This role ensures consistent execution of preventive and predictive maintenance programs, contractor safety compliance, and quality assurance standards to optimize asset reliability, reduce costs, and maintain operational excellence. The position partners with regional and site leaders to drive a culture of safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.

This role requires someone to be a very effective change management leader.

As A Director of Global Maintenance & Contractor Management Programs, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
Global Maintenance Strategy & Governance

• Define, Improve and implement global maintenance standards, policies, and procedures for all sites.
• Develop corporate guidelines for preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM), and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM).
• Establish a standard global KPIs and reporting systems to monitor maintenance performance and contractor compliance.
• Ensure alignment of maintenance programs with corporate objectives for safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.
• Responsible for assessing the current-state maintenance landscape across 3M sites to baseline planning quality, scheduling, backlog standards, contractor management practices, and execution discipline.
• Work with peers including the Global Reliability Director and site leaders to develop global maintenance SOPs and a coordinated implementation roadmap.
• Link maintenance execution directly to reliability outcomes: PM effectiveness, MTBF improvements, downtime reductions.
• Delivery of processes and provide assurance for maintenance scope challenge, readiness verification and post-event learning.

Contractor Management & Compliance

• The face of contractor oversight for 3M’S Maintenance, Inspection and Engineering contracts supporting the sites.
• Develop and deploy a global contractor management framework, including qualification, onboarding, and performance monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with EHS standards and regulatory requirements for all contracted work.
• Implement global QA/QC processes for contractor work, including inspection protocols and accountability measures.
• Define ownership and review intervals for contractor performance evaluations at site and regional levels.

Program Deployment & Continuous Improvement

• Lead global rollout of maintenance and contractor management initiatives, including training and technology platforms.
• Drive adoption of systematic methodologies such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for maintenance optimization.
• Benchmark best practices internally and externally to continuously improve maintenance and contractor management performance including cost, time on tools and quality.
• Implement effective spare parts, stock items and Bill of Material Strategies for the manufacturing sites.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as the corporate subject matter expert for maintenance execution and contractor management.
• Partner with site engineering and maintenance leaders to ensure consistent execution of global programs.
• Provide coaching and development for regional maintenance leaders and contractor…