Maintenance Coordinator

MAHLE; Ramos Arizpe; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

MAHLE is seeking a Maintenance Coordinator - Foundry in Mexico to lead a maintenance organization responsible for melting furnaces and related systems. The role focuses on reliability, availability, and performance while guiding a team of supervisors, technicians, and support staff.

The ideal candidate has a technical engineering degree and 5+ years of leadership in manufacturing maintenance, with strong skills in KPIs, safety, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field related to maintenance.
• Minimum 5 years leading maintenance teams in manufacturing.
• Experience supervising multi-level maintenance organizations.
• Strong leadership, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience driving maintenance KPIs and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a maintenance organization of supervisors and technicians.
• Ensure reliable, available, and high-performing foundry equipment.
• Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to minimize downtime.
• Promote safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor KPIs like MTTR, MTBF, and downtime reduction.
• Support production with timely resolution of equipment issues.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts, and external service providers.
• Coach staff to build capability and succession plans.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Plant Leadership.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Team development

Project management

KPIs & reliability

Communication

Conflict resolution

Industrial automation

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical, Mechatronics or related field

Tools

Allen Bradley PLCs

Siemens PLCs

Industrial automation systems

Job description

Your Contribution

As a Maintenance Coordinator - Foundry, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of foundry equipment while leading a team of supervisors, technical support personnel, and maintenance technicians. You will drive a culture of accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence, ensuring maintenance activities effectively support production objectives and plant performance.

• Lead and develop a maintenance organization consisting of supervisors, technical support personnel, and maintenance technicians.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of critical foundry equipment, including melting furnaces and related systems.
• Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to minimize downtime and improve operational efficiency.
• Drive a strong culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement throughout the maintenance organization.
• Monitor and improve key maintenance performance indicators such as equipment availability, MTTR, MTBF, and downtime reduction.
• Support production operations by ensuring timely resolution of equipment issues and effective resource allocation.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventories, external service providers, and maintenance-related expenditures.
• Coach and develop supervisors, technicians, and technical staff to build organizational capability and succession plans.
• Lead root cause analysis activities and implement sustainable corrective actions to improve equipment reliability.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Plant Leadership teams to achieve business objectives and operational targets.

Your Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading maintenance teams within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience supervising supervisors, technicians, or multi-level maintenance organizations.
• Strong leadership, people development, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience driving maintenance KPIs, reliability initiatives, and continuous improvement programs.
• Solid understanding of industrial maintenance systems, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automation equipment.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, contractors, and external service providers.
• Exposure to PLC-based equipment and industrial automation systems (Allen Bradley, Siemens, or similar) is preferred.
• Experience in foundry, metalworking, heavy manufacturing, forging, thermal processing, or similar industrial environments is preferred.

Our Offer

We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities, attractive salary & extensive personal benefits.

#TeamMAHLE is diverse, and we see that as a great advantage! We welcome applications with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and identities.

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