Maintenance Manager

Cailabs; Rennes; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cailabs is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead a newly created centralized maintenance team at the Rennes site. You will oversee building, utilities, and equipment maintenance, coordinate regulatory compliance, and drive reliability improvements across facilities.

This role collaborates with Production, R&D, and Procurement to ensure safety and continuity of operations. The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of hands-on maintenance leadership, strong CMMS experience, and a solid background in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Maintenance, Facilities Management, Energy Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Manage building and utilities maintenance: preventive and corrective maintenance of technical installations and utilities; coordinate regulatory inspections; identify construction or investment needs.
• Ensure equipment maintenance: define and implement maintenance plans; monitor calibration; organize fault diagnosis; ensure traceability and CMMS usage.
• Drive maintenance performance: define KPIs; monitor budget; lead continuous improvement to enhance reliability.
• Ensure safety and coordinate external partners: ensure HSE compliance; manage suppliers; report to site management.

Skills

Maintenance management

CMMS experience

Electrical systems

HVAC systems

Budget management

Team management

Regulatory compliance

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Maintenance/Facilities

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

The company

Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry, telecommunications, and defense sectors. A global specialist in laser shaping, the company has accelerated its growth in the space field with turnkey optical ground stations that integrate atmospheric turbulence compensation technology. This makes it one of the first companies to harness very high data rates enabled by optics in a commercial ground station.

Cailabs currently has more than 200 employees, including 41PhDs. With 29 patent families filed, the company is one of the most innovative companies in France. It is headquartered in Rennes, with offices in Paris and Washington (USA).

Post description

As part of the continued growth of our industrial activities, Cailabs is creating a dedicated Maintenance team to structure and standardize the maintenance of its equipment, technical facilities, buildings, and utilities across its Rennes sites.

We are looking for our future Maintenance Manager to build and lead this new team.

You will work closely with the Facilities team on major infrastructure projects and with the Security Officer on security-related matters, as well as with the Production, Industrialization, Quality, R&D, Procurement, IT, and HSE teams.

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

Manage building and utilities maintenance

• Ensure preventive and corrective maintenance of technical installations and utilities, including electrical systems, HVAC, compressed air, general equipment, access control, alarms, and fire safety systems.
• Plan regulatory inspections, ensure compliance of installations, and coordinate the resolution of any identified non-compliance issues.
• Identify requirements for construction work, site improvements, or investments, and provide technical expertise to the Facilities team.

Ensure equipment maintenance

• Define and implement preventive and corrective maintenance plans for equipment, test benches, and tooling.
• Monitor the calibration of measurement equipment.
• Organize fault diagnosis, prioritize interventions, perform root cause analysis, and ensure equipment is safely returned to service.
• Ensure full traceability of maintenance operations, maintain technical documentation, manage critical spare parts, and oversee the use of the CMMS.

Drive maintenance performance

• Define and monitor KPIs, including availability, MTBF, MTTR, preventive maintenance completion, recurring failures, costs, energy consumption, and compliance.
• Prepare and monitor the Maintenance budget and recommend CAPEX/OPEX trade-offs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the reliability of equipment and installations.

Ensure safety and coordinate external partners

• Ensure compliance with HSE requirements, prevention plans, permits, and lockout/tagout procedures, and contribute to the organization of fire drills.
• Manage suppliers and service providers within the Maintenance scope, in coordination with Procurement and the Facilities team.
• Provide regular reporting to site management.

Profile required

You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Maintenance, Facilities Management, Energy Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or have equivalent professional experience.

You have 5 to 10 years of experience, with significant hands‑on experience in the maintenance of production or technical equipment, building and utilities management, regulatory compliance, and contractor management. Previous experience in team management or resource coordination is also expected.

You have strong expertise in preventive and corrective maintenance, CMMS tools, reading technical drawings and schematics, and problem-solving methodologies such as FMEA, 5 Whys, or 8D.

You also have knowledge of electrical systems, HVAC/utilities, maintenance safety requirements, and budget management.

You have a professional level of English, enabling you to work with technical documentation and communicate effectively with suppliers.

Why join Cailabs in this role?

You will join at a key moment, as the Maintenance team is being built from the ground up.

This position combines hands‑on technical work, coordination, compliance, project management, budget management, and continuous improvement, with a direct impact on the safety, business continuity, and performance of our Rennes sites.

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