Maintenance Manager

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The Maintenance Manager (Contract) provides interim leadership for the Garden Grove Facilities and Maintenance organization during a leave-of-absence coverage assignment. This role is responsible for directing maintenance supervisors, maintenance personnel, and contractors to ensure the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of manufacturing equipment, facilities systems, utilities, and supporting infrastructure.

The successful candidate will maintain operational continuity through effective maintenance execution, preventive maintenance compliance, equipment recovery, contractor oversight, resource planning, and stakeholder communication. This position plays a critical role in supporting safety, quality, delivery, and overall manufacturing performance within a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment.

• Lead daily maintenance operations, providing direction to maintenance supervisors and ensuring effective prioritization of resources, shift coverage, preventive maintenance execution, and issue escalation to support uninterrupted production.
• Drive equipment reliability through preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities, ensuring rapid response to equipment, facility, and utility failures while implementing corrective actions that prevent recurrence and improve operational performance.
• Oversee CMMS administration and maintenance governance, including work order management, preventive maintenance compliance, backlog control, equipment history accuracy, and analysis of maintenance data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements, including LOTO, electrical safety, confined space, hot work, and contractor management, while maintaining appropriate risk assessments and safe work practices.
• Lead and develop maintenance supervisors and teams by aligning labor resources, communicating priorities, fostering accountability, and promoting a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Support the reliable operation of facility infrastructure and critical utilities, including HVAC, electrical distribution, compressed air, chilled water, steam, vacuum, chemical distribution systems, wastewater interfaces, and general building systems.
• Coordinate maintenance support for capital projects, equipment installations, facility upgrades, shutdowns, commissioning activities, and contractor-led work, ensuring proper documentation, preventive maintenance integration, and operational handoff.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities Management, Industrial Technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Minimum seven (7) years of experience in maintenance, facilities, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, or plant operations within aerospace, defense, chemical manufacturing, or a similarly regulated industrial environment.
• Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience managing supervisors, technicians, skilled trades personnel, contractors, or multi-shift maintenance teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and responding effectively to high-impact operational events.
• Strong knowledge of CMMS systems, maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive maintenance programs, work-order management, backlog control, and maintenance performance metrics.
• Experience managing contractors and suppliers performing maintenance and construction activities in industrial environments.
• Must qualify as a U.S. Person in accordance with applicable export control regulations, including ITAR requirements.