Maintenance Facilities Manager in Eau Claire

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Join America's premier steel bridge fabricator! Veritas Steel's employees have been building America's bridges with American-made steel for more than 100 years. We specialize in complex bridges of all shapes and sizes, whether arches, cable-stayed, suspension, bascule, or plate girders, we build it. Veritas is committed to providing employees with opportunities for training and professional development. If being a part of Building America's Infrastructure is something that interests you, then Relocation Assistance is available.

Veritas Steel is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations, improve equipment reliability, and assist with strategic execution of capital projects within a heavy manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for developing a high-performing maintenance team, maximizing equipment uptime, managing maintenance and MRO budgets, and leading facility and equipment improvement initiatives that support the plant's long-term growth and operational objectives.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader who combines strong maintenance expertise with project engineering capabilities to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and overall plant performance.

• Leads and directs the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual objectives of the maintenance department.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and development for maintenance technicians.
• Partners with Operations and Maintenance Planning to prioritize and execute maintenance activities.
• Develops and implements preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
• Drives root cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
• Develops long-term reliability improvement plans aligned with plant objectives.
• Works with plant leadership to develop and execute long-term CAPEX plans and strategic initiatives.
• Assists Plant Engineering to Manage capital project scope, schedules, budgets, contractors, and execution.
• Coordinates equipment installation, startup, commissioning, and performance validation activities.
• Leads startup efforts for major equipment and facility investments.
• Ensures projects are completed safely, on schedule, and within budget.

• 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong technical troubleshooting, reliability, and project management skills.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractors, and capital projects.
• Proven ability to lead teams, develop employees, and drive continuous improvement.
• Engineering, Maintenance Management, or related technical degree .

We are seeking a strong maintenance leader with proven forward-thinking capabilities, excellent technical knowledge, and the project engineering expertise to drive reliability improvements and successfully execute strategic capital investments.

Safety is our priority! We have a very extensive training program to ensure the safety of all of our employees.

Veritas Steel is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to , color, , , , , , veteran or status.