Maintenance Manager

Are you ready to join an organization where you can make a significant daily impact? An organization where you will be a major contributor to the growth and strength of our organization? Where you will be contributing to the betterment of the environment and our communities? Then Fyter Tech is the place for you to make your next and best career move.

Fyter Tech Nonwovens is a market-leading materials manufacturer of nonwoven high-tech products that are used in a variety of settings. Applications include cleaning up the spills one could expect to see in hospitals, laboratories, oil spills and grocery stores – just to name a few. As a market leader in our industry, we are looking for someone with a competitive edge to help drive a can-do collaborative culture.

We are looking for a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations for two local meltblown manufacturing facilities. This role is responsible for the reliability, safety, and performance of production equipment, building systems, utilities, and facility infrastructure at both locations. The Maintenance Manager establishes priorities, coordinates preventive and corrective maintenance, manages contractors and vendors, and partners with Operations, Engineering, Safety, and Quality to minimize downtime and support production goals.

The ideal candidate is an organized, hands-on leader and analytical problem-solver who can balance competing priorities, develop maintenance employees, and ensure consistent maintenance practices across both plants.

• Directs maintenance activities, staffing, schedules, and priorities across two local meltblown manufacturing facilities.
• Partners with maintenance lead/technicians, safety, quality and production leaders to review workload, coordinate coverage, and respond to equipment issues at both plants.
• Develops and maintains preventive and predictive maintenance programs for meltblown production lines, extrusion systems, compressed air, HVAC, electrical distribution, material handling equipment, utilities, and building systems.
• Prioritizes breakdown response and root-cause corrective actions to reduce unplanned downtime, improve equipment reliability, and maintain product quality.
• Standardizes maintenance procedures, documentation, spare-parts practices, and performance expectations across both locations.
• Uses the CMMS to manage work orders, preventive maintenance compliance, asset history, labor, parts usage, backlog, and key maintenance metrics.
• Leads equipment upgrades, installations, shutdown work, and continuous improvement projects in partnership with plant and corporate Engineering.
• Selects and manages contractors and vendors, including work scope, scheduling, safety requirements, cost, quality, and completion at each facility.
• Maintains critical spare-parts inventory and supports purchasing decisions to balance equipment risk, availability, and cost.
• Ensures maintenance work complies with applicable safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements, including lockout/tagout and contractor safety practices.
• Hires, trains, coaches, and evaluates maintenance employees while building technical capability, accountability, and cross-plant collaboration.
• Manages the maintenance budget, identifies cost-saving opportunities, and provides regular updates on equipment reliability, downtime, projects, and department performance.
• Participates in plant leadership, safety, quality, production, and management review meetings at both locations.
• Provides support for urgent maintenance needs outside normal business hours and travels between the two local facilities as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Strong knowledge of industrial mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, plumbing, compressed-air, HVAC, and controls systems.
• Experience supporting continuous-process manufacturing equipment; knowledge of extrusion, web handling, winding, conveying, heating, and filtration systems is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead maintenance operations across multiple facilities and prioritize resources based on safety, production impact, quality, and business needs.
• Proven leadership, coaching, delegation, and employee-development skills.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, planning, and project-management capabilities.
• Working knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability practices, spare-parts management, and…