Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Dwyer Omega | Wolcott, Indiana

Reports to:

Plant Manager Department:
Engineering and Maintenance | Work arrangement:
On-site

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Engineering and Maintenance Manager leads Wolcott’s Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, and Machine Design functions. The manager sets priorities across all three teams to improve equipment uptime, expand production capacity, and deliver equipment and process improvements from design through production startup.

As a member of the site leadership team, this manager owns facilities readiness and develops the engineering and capital roadmap for Wolcott’s machining, assembly, and test operations. The manager develops technical staff and builds coverage across shifts.

• Lead and develop the Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, and Machine Design teams. Establish clear responsibilities, daily priorities, shift handoffs, response expectations, and performance standards.
• Build a skills matrix, cross-training plans, and backup coverage for critical equipment and technical responsibilities. Reduce dependence on individual employees and outside service providers.
• Participate in daily tier meetings and the Wolcott Leadership System. Communicate equipment risks, recovery plans, owners, and completion dates; elevate constraints before production commitments are missed.
• Maintain a professional, collaborative team culture through coaching, timely feedback, documented follow-through, and sound judgment.

• Own preventive and predictive maintenance, corrective work, shutdown planning, and backlog management. Use the computerized maintenance management system to schedule work and capture complete equipment history.
• Prioritize assets by safety, quality, and production criticality. Establish effective maintenance plans, critical spare parts, service support, and contingency plans for bottleneck equipment.
• Lead structured root cause analysis for recurring failures and verify that corrective actions prevent recurrence. Coordinate recovery and restart readiness with Operations and Quality.
• Use downtime and condition data to improve uptime, mean time between failures, mean time to repair, and planned maintenance execution. Review recurring losses and overdue work with the team.

• Lead the Machine Design team and prioritize custom equipment, fixture, tooling, and automation projects. Review mechanical designs and controls requirements with the team. Oversee build and commissioning, and ensure Maintenance receives current drawings, equipment programs and troubleshooting documentation at handoff.

• Develop and maintain a multiyear engineering roadmap aligned with demand, product mix, capacity constraints, and the site’s strategic direction. Convert priorities into scoped projects with owners, costs, benefits and milestones.
• Lead improvements to CNC machining, assembly, fixtures, tooling, testing, workstations and material presentation. Apply cycle-time analysis, line balancing, setup reduction and ergonomic design to increase sustainable output.
• Identify and implement practical automation, including assembly and fastening systems, dispensing, inspection, testing and material handling where justified by safety, quality, capacity or financial return.
• Advance machine monitoring, including Factbird, in coordination with IT and Operations. Establish reliable data collection and use equipment losses to direct engineering and maintenance actions.
• Partner with Corporate Engineering, Quality and Operations on product introductions, process changes and manufacturing transfers. Confirm equipment…