Maintenance Manager

We’ve been retained to conduct a search for our client, a fast-growing precision manufacturing company in the Greater College Station, TX area.

This organization produces highly engineered industrial components for demanding, quality-driven applications. The business has grown quickly and is investing in stronger systems, better operational discipline, and leadership that can help the organization scale without losing accountability, quality, or responsiveness.

This is a hands‑on environment with high standards, visible leadership, and a strong push toward cleaner processes, better data, and more consistent execution.

This is a hands‑on maintenance leadership opportunity for someone who can troubleshoot complex equipment, build preventive maintenance systems, and lead with urgency.

The Maintenance Manager will own equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, spare parts discipline, vendor coordination, and maintenance team development. This is not a desk‑only management role. The right person must be technically strong enough to diagnose issues directly while also building systems that make the maintenance function more proactive, organized, and reliable.

The company is investing in stronger maintenance systems and leadership to support continued growth. This leader will play a key role in improving equipment reliability, reducing unplanned downtime, and building a more disciplined, proactive maintenance operation.

This role is ideal for someone with strong industrial maintenance experience, practical troubleshooting ability, leadership presence, and a self‑starting mindset. The successful candidate will be someone who naturally takes ownership, identifies opportunities for improvement, and enjoys building systems that make an operation stronger over time.

In this role, you will serve as the key leader responsible for equipment uptime, maintenance systems, troubleshooting, technician development, and maintenance process discipline. You will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Production, vendors, and plant leadership to keep critical equipment running while building a stronger, more proactive maintenance organization. Success in this role will require technical depth, urgency, follow‑through, and the ability to create practical maintenance systems that improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own plant‑wide equipment uptime, reliability, maintenance execution, and preventive maintenance systems
• Build and continuously improve preventive maintenance programs and maintenance processes.
• Reduce unplanned downtime through structured troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and disciplined follow‑through
• Lead hands‑on troubleshooting for mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, PLC‑controlled, and factory wiring issues
• Read and interpret wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, panel layouts, machine documentation, and control‑related information
• Support maintenance of PLC systems, VFDs, motor starters, sensors, safety circuits, three‑phase systems, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, motors, gearboxes, drives, and mechanical assemblies
• Manage critical spare parts, recurring equipment issues, vendor support, OEM communication, and service technician coordination
• Partner with Engineering and Operations on larger process improvement projects, equipment upgrades, facility improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance technicians while building safety, 5S, accountability, escalation, and maintenance standards

The ideal candidate brings strong hands‑on industrial maintenance experience, leadership maturity, urgency, and the ability to build a more disciplined maintenance function. Practical troubleshooting experience matters more than formal credentials. The right person will not wait to be told every issue in their area. They will see problems, take ownership, communicate clearly, follow through completely, and build systems that make the facility more reliable over time.

Qualifications include:

• 7+ years of industrial maintenance experience
• 3+…