Maintenance Manager - Controls Experience

Maintenance Manager

As a Maintenance Manager you will partner with the Plant Manager to provide day-to-day support and lead all maintenance operations to ensure a safe, reliable, and efficient operation of manufacturing equipment, facilities, and utilities. This position develops and executes preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies while driving equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, controlling maintenance costs, and supporting operational excellence. The Maintenance Manager leads the maintenance team in creating a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and customer service.

Key responsibilities include:

• Direct all preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
• Develop and manage PM schedules to maximize equipment uptime.
• Improve equipment reliability through Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Manage emergency breakdown response.
• Coordinate maintenance support with production to minimize downtime.
• Maintain facility infrastructure including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, compressed air, fire protection systems, and utilities.
• Drive TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) initiatives.
• Develop and manage the annual maintenance budget.
• Control maintenance spending while maintaining equipment reliability.
• Manage contractor services and vendor relationships.
• Negotiate service agreements and approve maintenance purchases
• Optimize spare parts inventory and approve maintenance purchases.
• Oversee maintenance planning and work order prioritization.
• Utilize CMMS software for maintenance planning and history tracking.
• Lead equipment installations.
• Manage facility improvement projects and coordinate contractors.

Skills/qualifications include:

• 5–7 years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years leading maintenance teams.
• Experience with electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, PLC troubleshooting, and automation systems.
• Experience with KPI's such as Equipment Uptime, Preventive Maintenance Compliance, Maintenance Budget Performance, etc.

Total rewards include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic and optional life insurance
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Tuition assistance
• Flexible spending accounts

Our commitment to a diverse workforce:

FXI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FXI does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or based on any individual's membership in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We support workplace diversity. We strongly believe that diversity contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products.

We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

FXI is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FXI via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of FXI. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by FXI as a result of the referral or through other means.