Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, reliability, and asset management activities within a fiber optic cable manufacturing facility. This role ensures optimal equipment uptime, process stability, and safe operations by deploying best-in-class preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. The position plays a critical role in supporting production throughput, quality standards, and cost efficiency through strong technical leadership and disciplined execution.

• Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements
• Promote a zero-incident culture within the maintenance organization
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with all safety absolutes, LOTO requirements, electrical safety standards, and company EHS policies
• Lead safety engagement activities within the maintenance department and ensure all maintenance personnel and contractors follow safe work practices
• Lead incident investigations and implement corrective actions
• Collaborate with EHS to ensure maintenance activities comply with all safety absolutes, environmental requirements, and regulatory standards

• Develop and implement a comprehensive preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) program
• Lead predictive maintenance initiatives including vibration analysis, thermography, condition monitoring, and root cause failure analysis
• Drive equipment reliability and uptime across all production areas (buffering lines, jacketing lines, stranding equipment, etc.)
• Establish and enforce standard work for maintenance activities
• Lead troubleshooting and rapid response to unplanned downtime events
• Manage and control maintenance spare parts inventory to ensure critical parts availability while controlling costs
• Establish maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, PM completion rates, and equipment reliability metrics
• Support emergency breakdown response and drive proactive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime
• Provide maintenance leadership support during off‑shift hours, holidays, weekends, and emergency situations as needed to support plant operations and equipment reliability
• Maintain flexibility to respond to critical equipment failures and operational needs outside normal working hours
• Support plant startup, shutdown, and major maintenance activities during scheduled outages or off‑shift production windows when required

• Implement reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
• Partner with operations and engineering on continuous improvement initiatives (OEE improvement, scrap reduction, yield improvement)
• Support continuous improvement initiatives including TPM, 5S, reliability improvement, and maintenance best practices
• Utilize data (CMMS/MES) to drive failure analysis and predictive insights
• Lead Kaizen events and maintenance optimization projects
• Participate in plant continuous improvement efforts and support operational excellence initiatives across all departments
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of maintenance technicians, planners, leads and supervisors
• Establish clear performance expectations and accountability
• Build technical capability in electrical, mechanical, PLC, and automation systems
• Drive a culture aligned to operational principles (e.g., accountability, ownership, continuous improvement)
• Drive proactive vs reactive culture

• Oversee maintenance planning and scheduling processes to ensure efficient execution and minimal production disruption
• Ensure disciplined use of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
• Optimize work order management, spare parts inventory, and labor utilization
• Improve schedule compliance and PM completion rates
• Manage PM compliance, scheduling, backlog control, and maintenance planning activities.

• Support capital projects, equipment installation, and commissioning
• Provide input on equipment selection, maintainability, and reliability design
• Manage equipment lifecycle strategies including replacement planning and obsolescence management

• Work closely…