Maintenance and Process Manager

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26246 12 TREES LANE NW - POULSBO, WA 98370, Position Type:
Full Time, Salary Range: $90,000.00 - $ Salary/year, Welcome. We're glad you're here. And we're not just saying that. We're glad we're here too. We are proud of this company and take great pleasure in introducing you to the Watson difference.

We are builders.

For more than 60 years we have designed and built work spaces for some of the most dynamic and innovative companies. Our designs are functional, refined, and manufactured with respect for our people and the environment. We are proud to source the best talent and materials at our manufacturing facility in Poulsbo, WA.

We're looking for a Maintenance and Process Manager (MPM) who supports the technical backbone of our factory: the machine readiness, process design, automation, and manufacturing engineering capability that let the production floor run reliably and get better every day. Our floor runs CNC routers, fiber lasers, press brakes, edgebanders, weld, and a powder coat line, and keeping that equipment available and capable is central to this role.

This role leads Watson's manufacturing engineering team and maintenance teams. The Plant Manager sets direction, and the Value Stream Managers alongside the MPM define the current condition, the target condition, and the goals that matter. Your team helps make it happen, through process design, reliable automation, preventative maintenance, machine uptime and a culture where problems get solved at the root, not just patched for the shift.

Sitting squarely within operations you remain guided by customer demand assisting your peers in the VSM seats with machine availability, data, and process needed to ensure we can execute on time, every time.

This role reports to the Plant Manager and works closely with the Value Stream Managers, Engineering, Production Planning, Purchasing, and Safety to bring practical, deliberate and well thought out changes to production.

Please note, this role is 100% on site at our Poulsbo, Washington workplace called The Orchard.

The Orchard is more than merely our Pacific Northwest headquarters and the land that surrounds it. With a perimeter of towering Douglas firs and vistas of the Olympic Mountains, it's quite an inspirational workplace. The Orchard is more expansive than its literal acreage. It's an oxygen rich metaphor of what we're here to do and, more importantly, what we're here to take care of.

We love working here, and we think you will too!

• Use lean as the shared language with the floor (standard work, 5S, value stream mapping, A3, kaizen) and lead kaizen events and process redesigns that close throughput, quality, and safety gaps.
• Partner with the Plant Manager and Value Stream Managers to turn current and target conditions into plans for process changes, tooling, automation, and standard work.
• Build and maintain the tooling programs, and work instructions that let the floor run safely, consistently, and at quality.
• Scope and implement automation and equipment opportunities, balancing capability against cost and reliability.
• Work with Product Development on manufacturability during new product introduction and product modifications.

• Own the PM program across all production and facility equipment, and shift the team from reactive repair to planned and predictive maintenance using condition monitoring, failure history, and OEM guidance.
• Get machines back up fast, lead root cause analysis on significant and repeat failures, and close out corrective actions.
• Serve as chief caretaker of the Watson CMMS, which tracks all plant and facility assets.
• Build TPM practices, including autonomous maintenance where operators own daily checks, cleaning, and early problem detection.
• Manage critical spare parts and OEM and service-provider relationships, balancing cost against downtime risk.
• Schedule planned downtime with the Value Stream Managers to protect customer commitments.
• Ensure all maintenance work follows LOTO, machine guarding, and electrical safety practices, and partner with Safety on incident follow-up.

• Lead and develop manufacturing engineers, maintenance technicians, and machine experts, and set priorities so support lands where it matters most.
• Build on-call coverage and cross-train across mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and controls work so no critical machine depends on one person.
• Build a team that coaches rather than…