Engineering & Maintenance Manager

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OADMIN-SALARY Full Time First/Mid Level Mgrs Cincinnati, OH, US

Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Position Title: Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Supervisor: VP of Operations Date Completed: 8/28/2026

Department: Corporate Engineering FLSA Classification: Exempt

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Engineering & Maintenance Manager sets the strategic direction for engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation across the company’s manufacturing operations for personal care products and oleochemicals. This leader ensures our plants, assets, and technical systems support Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery, customer requirements, and business growth.

As a member of the Extended Leadership Team and a key business partner to Operations, this role leads a small corporate team of subject matter expert engineers and project managers while partnering closely with Plant Managers and site teams. The role establishes standards, drives technical excellence, builds capabilities, and strengthens plant ownership of results through our World Class Manufacturing operating system.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering, Maintenance & Reliability Strategy

• Develop and lead the multi-year roadmap for engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation.
• Translate corporate objectives, customer requirements, and plant needs into prioritized standards, investments, projects, and capability improvements.
• Manage the company assets using equipment criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance, planning and scheduling, spare parts, equipment history, and CMMS standards.
• Own the asset-management framework and asset master plan to improve equipment capability, reliability, availability, lifecycle cost, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Plant & Operational Excellence

• Partner with Plant Managers to establish site action plans, ownership, resources, and priorities while maintaining local accountability for execution.
• Advance our World Class Manufacturing operating system, including maintenance excellence, autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, early equipment management, structured problem solving, and capability building.
• Provide technical leadership for major or recurring equipment failures, ensuring robust root cause analysis, corrective actions, and cross-site learning.
• Establish engineering standards for equipment design, maintainability, controls, instrumentation, automation, commissioning, documentation, qualification/validation, and Management of Change.
• Lead engineering and capital projects from business case and scope through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, handover, and post-project review.
• Support annual capital planning and recommend priorities based on safety, quality, compliance, customer requirements, asset risk, capacity, cost, and strategic value.

Maintenance Technical Knowledge

• Mixing & Blending:
  Industrial mixers, blenders, agitators, and mixing vessels.
• Processing Systems:
  Tanks, pumps, valves, piping, dosing, and material transfer systems.
• Process Technology:
  Filtration, heat exchangers, temperature control, instrumentation, and automation.
• Packaging Equipment:
  Conveyors, filling, sealing, labeling, and palletizing systems.
• Technical Troubleshooting:
  Mechanical, electrical, automation, and process-related failures.
• Lead and develop a small team of engineers and project managers, establishing clear priorities, roles, decision rights, and performance expectations.
• Mentor plant engineering and maintenance managers and strengthen the technical bench through training, development, and succession planning.
• Partners across Operations, EHSS, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, customers, suppliers, contractors, OEMs, and service providers.
• Manage assigned budgets, contracted services, resources, and the escalation of significant operational or technical risks.
• Proven experience leading structured continuous improvement programs with measurable business results.
• Ability to develop and coach cross-functional teams in WCM/TPM/Lean methodologies.
• Strong analytical capabilities, KPI management, and systematic loss analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to establish standards, sustain improvements, and build a proactive problem-solving culture.
• Lead deployment of the…