Maintenance Manager

About Radius Packaging At Radius Packaging, we prioritize our team members’ growth, collaboration, and well‑being. Our culture is rooted in our Values and Guiding Principles—The Radius Way:
Champion Positive Change, Act with Integrity, Strive for Excellence, Emphasize Community, Work Together.

We are proud to be a recipient of the Plastics News Excellence in Employee Relations Award and to have been named a Top Workplace by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the last two consecutive years. These recognitions reflect our commitment to continuing education, recognition programs, employee engagement initiatives, and meaningful opportunities for career advancement.

Radius Packaging continues to grow as a leading supplier of containers and lids for the food, beverage, personal care, household, industrial, nutraceutical, wipes, and pet care markets. Headquartered in New Berlin, WI, with additional locations in Delavan and West Allis, our success is driven by a talented, engaged, and safety‑focused team.

Position Summary We are seeking a highly proactive Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance and reliability function for our manufacturing facility, ensuring the reliability, performance, and longevity of production equipment, facilities, and utility systems. This role is focused on preventing downtime before it occurs through disciplined preventive and predictive maintenance practices, rigorous root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of manufacturing assets.

The ideal candidate has a strong background leading maintenance operations in a manufacturing environment and understands the importance of equipment reliability, standardized maintenance practices, and continuous improvement. This individual anticipates equipment wear, monitors performance trends, and implements permanent corrective actions that improve uptime, quality, and safety.

Experience supporting plastic molding operations—including blow molding or injection molding—is preferred but not required. Candidates with experience in other highly automated manufacturing environments who possess strong technical leadership and reliability expertise are encouraged to apply.

This position partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Production to embed reliability into daily operations, ensuring equipment is capable, repeatable, and production-ready always. Success is measured by reduced unplanned downtime, improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), increased equipment reliability, lower maintenance costs, and a maintenance culture that prioritizes planning over firefighting.

Key Responsibilities Lead all maintenance, facilities, and equipment reliability activities for the manufacturing operation.

Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance strategies to maximize equipment uptime and asset life.

Supervise, coach, and develop maintenance technicians through performance management, training, and career development.

Establish maintenance priorities and assign work based on production demands, equipment criticality, and technician skill sets.

Manage the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), including work order planning, scheduling, backlog management, and maintenance documentation.

Analyze equipment performance, downtime trends, and maintenance metrics to drive reliability improvements.

Lead Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations for chronic equipment failures and implement permanent corrective actions.

Develop standardized maintenance procedures, equipment standards, and best practices.

Manage the maintenance budget, including labor, parts inventory, outside contractors, and capital expenditures.

Lead equipment installations, rebuilds, facility improvements, and capital projects.

Oversee maintenance of mechanical, electrical, PLC, hydraulic, pneumatic, automation, HVAC, compressed air, chilled water, and utility systems.

Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and contractors to improve plant performance.

Drive Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), SMED, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Ensure compliance with OSHA, GMP, food safety,…