Maintenance Manager

Job Title:

Maintenance Manager

Job Location :
Leola, PA Hours:
Day shift / 7:00am – 5:00pm Salary:
Up to $130K depending on experience On-Site Position

• Come join our team! We currently have an exciting Permanent (Direct Hire) opportunity in Leola, PA for a Maintenance Manager with experience leading capital projects from planning through commissioning and 7+ years of progressive maintenance and engineering experience in a fabrication manufacturing environment
  . Must also have experience with automation controls and PLCs
  . Engineering degree is required.

• Lead, mentor, and develop maintenance supervisors, reliability engineers, manufacturing engineers, controls technicians, maintenance planners, maintenance technicians, facilities personnel, and contractors.
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
• Establish department goals, KPIs, budgets, staffing plans, and performance expectations aligned with business objectives.
• Recruit, hire, train, coach, and retain high-performing technical talent.
• Conduct performance evaluations, succession planning, and employee development initiatives.
• Lead daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance and engineering review meetings.
• Collaborate with Operations, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, and Executive Leadership to achieve plant objectives.
• Manage departmental operating and capital budgets while driving cost reduction initiatives.
• Develop long-term maintenance strategies that support business growth and operational excellence.
• Lead emergency response, critical equipment recovery, and business continuity efforts.
• Manage relationships with OEMs, contractors, suppliers, and engineering consultants.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs.
• Establish predictive and preventive maintenance strategies using engineering analysis and equipment performance data.
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Fault Tree Analysis, FMEA, and corrective action investigations.
• Improve equipment uptime, MTBF, MTTR, OEE, and overall asset reliability.
• Analyze equipment failures and implement permanent engineering solutions.
• Develop long-term asset lifecycle management strategies.

• Apply mechanical engineering principles to manufacturing equipment, facility infrastructure, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical power transmission systems.
• Evaluate machinery performance and implement engineering improvements.
• Lead equipment upgrades, retrofits, modifications, and replacement projects.
• Improve equipment safety, maintainability, reliability, and operational performance.
• Support process optimization and equipment design improvements.

• Improve manufacturing processes through engineering analysis and continuous improvement.
• Analyze production bottlenecks and implement engineering solutions to increase throughput.
• Support new product introductions and manufacturing process development.
• Develop engineering standards, equipment specifications, and best practices.
• Lead productivity, quality, safety, and efficiency improvement projects.

• Support automation systems including PLCs, HMIs, industrial networks, sensors, VFDs, servo systems, and control systems.
• Improve automated equipment performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with controls engineers, equipment suppliers, and system integrators.
• Support troubleshooting and optimization of automated manufacturing systems.
• Maintain familiarity with Rockwell, Siemens, Beckhoff, Trio, or similar control platforms.

• Lead engineering activities related to equipment commissioning, startup,…