Manager, Maintenance Operations; Onsite

Manager, Maintenance Operations

This role leads maintenance operations for Insulet's Irvine, CA manufacturing plant, overseeing a team of technicians and engineers while ensuring equipment reliability, facility upkeep, and alignment with production goals. The manager owns maintenance strategy, budgeting, and performance metrics (e.g., OEE, MTBF), and drives continuous improvement using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

Owns preventative and breakdown maintenance operations for production equipment such that performances meet or exceed baseline capabilities.

Develop and manage the plant's maintenance strategy and budget. Focus on long-term planning, resource allocation, and performance metrics (OEE, MTBF, MTTR).

Ensure all facilities preventative maintenance(s) are scheduled. Is site point person for coordination with Insulet Facilities – Site contact for subcontractors, repairs, etc.

Helps set maintenance department goals, and manages a team of maintenance technicians and engineers including but not limited to setting daily priorities, establishing responsibilities, formal performance evaluations, professional development, ensuring production coverage during absence requests, set etc.

Manage EAM system, ensuring accurate creation, scheduling, and tracking of preventative and corrective maintenance work orders.

Responsible for production equipment O.E.E. ensuring optimal efficiency and reliability by making sure equipment is sufficient to meet production and site needs.

Collaborates with other departments to forecast and plan for maintenance needs and upgrades. Utilize data and helps optimize data gathering systems to accurately depict issues on equipment.

Use processes such as DMAIC, Lean, and Six Sigma to identify, root cause, and drive a continuous improvement culture to improve safety, quality, efficiency, and cost.

Manages equipment and safety inspections, and generates emergency, corrective, and/or preventative work orders as needed.

Support equipment and facility upgrades with both hands-on support and allocation of managed resources.

Drive continuous improvement of safety programs, maintenance programs, troubleshooting process, and machine performance.

Ensure spare inventory for all equipment is sufficient for production requirements.

Participate as a member of the Safety Committee. Own select/assigned safety programs and take an active role in ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, accident prevention, accident investigation, safety training, and compliance with environmental rules and regulations.

Creating and/or maintaining documentation related to areas of responsibility. Responsible for developing a cohesive high-performing team. Builds team culture and sets expectations on performance and behaviors. Partners with various centers of expertise on strategies promoting positive work environment.

Other tasks assigned by superiors/Leadership.

Decision making – has a systematic and methodical approach to making decisions, seeks out and explores relevant information, thinks creatively beyond the immediate problem, assimilates facts quickly, challenges assumptions, and considers business implications of potential solutions.

Communication – conveys information effectively, including escalating critical maintenance and facilities issues, actively listens, and resolves conflict constructively.

Work organization – takes a structured, economical approach to resources including time, people, money, and equipment.

Problem solving – uses a systematic, methodical approach to gather facts, define problems, generate and implement solutions.

Initiative – makes decisions and takes actions appropriately. Willing to take risks as circumstances require.

Planning skills – sets goals and priorities, thinks ahead, and identifies activities and resources needed to achieve goals.

Perseverance – achieves objectives by overcoming difficulties through tenacity and resilience.

Talent Developer – actively coaches and partners with direct reports on career aspirations. Hold employees accountable for consistent performance and behavior expectations.