Maintenance Manager

Summary

Under the direction of the Engineering Manager, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading the maintenance function at Luxfer Gas Cylinders Riverside. This role ensures safe, reliable, and efficient operation of production equipment, facilities, utilities, buildings, grounds, and supporting infrastructure. The Maintenance Manager leads maintenance technicians and mechanics across shifts, builds a proactive preventive and predictive maintenance culture, and partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and Plant Leadership to improve equipment uptime, asset reliability, contractor coordination, and overall operational performance.

This position is expected to reflect Luxfer’s values of Customer First, Integrity, Accountability, Innovation, Personal Development, and Teamwork by creating a maintenance organization that is safety-focused, responsive to production needs, disciplined in execution, and committed to continuous improvement.

Maintenance Leadership and Team Management:

• Lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable the maintenance team supporting multiple shifts and facility needs.
• Plan staffing, priorities, coverage, and daily work execution to support production uptime and safe operations.
• Hire, train, schedule, review performance, and partner with HR on employee relations, discipline, and recruitment needs.
• Build a maintenance culture based on accountability, ownership, responsiveness, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Equipment Reliability and Preventive Maintenance:

• Implement and sustain an effective preventive maintenance program for production equipment, utilities, facilities, buildings, grounds, and vehicles.
• Improve equipment uptime by prioritizing corrective work, recurring failure reduction, spare parts availability, and root cause corrective actions.
• Use maintenance data, work orders, downtime history, and team feedback to identify reliability risks and improvement opportunities.
• Enforce consistent use of the CMMS/work order system to capture requests, assign work, document corrective actions, close work orders, and maintain accurate maintenance history.
• Report equipment breakdowns, downtime drivers, and machine availability data to support accurate OEE tracking, production planning, and reliability improvement actions.
• Ensure mechanical, electrical, facility drawings, specifications, and equipment documentation remain accurate and current.

Project, Contractor, and Facility Management:

• Plan, budget, schedule, and coordinate facility modifications, equipment repairs, capital support work, construction activity, and contractor services.
• Prepare or support cost estimates, bid sheets, layouts, specifications, procurement inputs, and contractor coordination for maintenance and facility projects.
• Partner with Engineering on new equipment installations, process improvements, equipment modifications, and reliability upgrades.

Inventory, Documentation, and Administrative Controls:

• Maintain critical spare parts inventory to reduce or eliminate avoidable machine downtime.
• Monitor maintenance records, work order closure, labor allocation, and required documentation.
• Communicate project status, downtime risk, resource needs, and priority conflicts clearly to all levels of leadership.
• Improve communication between Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and leadership by providing clear updates on work status, downtime impact, priorities, and escalation needs.
• Support Luxfer Production System activities including waste elimination, standard operations, Kanban, SMED, and continuous improvement tools.

Safety, Environmental, and Compliance Support:

• Partner with Safety, Operations, and Plant Leadership to support environmental compliance, safe work practices, and contractor safety expectations.
• Ensure maintenance work is planned and executed with proper hazard review, lockout/tagout discipline, permits, PPE, and closeout controls.
• Serve as a site contact when needed for city, state, federal, utility, or regulatory interactions related to facility maintenance.

• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal…