Maintenance Manager
Listed on 2026-08-05
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Maintenance Manager, Industrial Maintenance, Facility Maintenance
Maintenance Manager
AFL manufactures industry-leading fiber optic cable, connectivity and accessories and provides engineering and installation services for some of the largest telecom customers in the world. Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and today, we manufacture thousands of products, generate an excess of $3B in revenue, and employ approximately 12,000 associates worldwide. At AFL, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset.
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The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, reliability, and asset management activities within a fiber optic cable manufacturing facility. This role ensures optimal equipment uptime, process stability, and safe operations by deploying best-in-class preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. The position plays a critical role in supporting production throughput, quality standards, and cost efficiency through strong technical leadership and disciplined execution.
Safety & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements
- Promote a zero-incident culture within the maintenance organization
- Ensure maintenance activities comply with all safety absolutes, LOTO requirements, electrical safety standards, and company EHS policies
- Lead safety engagement activities within the maintenance department and ensure all maintenance personnel and contractors follow safe work practices
- Lead incident investigations and implement corrective actions
- Collaborate with EHS to ensure maintenance activities comply with all safety absolutes, environmental requirements, and regulatory standards
Maintenance Strategy & Execution
- Develop and implement a comprehensive preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) program
- Lead predictive maintenance initiatives including vibration analysis, thermography, condition monitoring, and root cause failure analysis
- Drive equipment reliability and uptime across all production areas (buffering lines, jacketing lines, stranding equipment, etc.)
- Establish and enforce standard work for maintenance activities
- Lead troubleshooting and rapid response to unplanned downtime events
- Manage and control maintenance spare parts inventory to ensure critical parts availability while controlling costs
- Establish maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, PM completion rates, and equipment reliability metrics
- Support emergency breakdown response and drive proactive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime
- Provide maintenance leadership support during off-shift hours, holidays, weekends, and emergency situations as needed to support plant operations and equipment reliability
- Maintain flexibility to respond to critical equipment failures and operational needs outside normal working hours
- Support plant startup, shutdown, and major maintenance activities during scheduled outages or off-shift production windows when required
Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Implement reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
- Partner with operations and engineering on continuous improvement initiatives (OEE improvement, scrap reduction, yield improvement)
- Support continuous improvement initiatives including TPM, 5S, reliability improvement, and maintenance best practices
- Utilize data (CMMS/MES) to drive failure analysis and predictive insights
- Lead Kaizen events and maintenance optimization projects
- Participate in plant continuous improvement efforts and support operational excellence initiatives across all departments
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of maintenance technicians, planners, leads and supervisors
- Establish clear performance expectations and accountability
- Build technical capability in electrical, mechanical, PLC, and automation systems
- Drive a culture aligned to operational principles (e.g., accountability, ownership, continuous improvement)
- Drive proactive vs reactive culture
Planning, Scheduling & CMMS
- Oversee maintenance planning and…
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