Autonomous Maintenance Lead – Reliability & PM Champion

Cornerstone Building Brands; Rocky Mount (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical, dental, vision benefits from

401k and PTO

Job summary

Cornerstone Building Brands is seeking an Autonomous Maintenance / Preventive Maintenance Pillar Lead to improve equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness in the Rocky Mount Model Line. You will partner with Operations, skilled trades and Engineering to establish conditions and reduce recurring failures.

The role emphasizes leading AM/PM, developing operator ownership, and implementing Cleaning, Inspection and Lubrication standards, with training provided.

Qualifications

• Manufacturing maintenance, reliability, engineering, skilled‑trades leadership experience.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance and equipment troubleshooting/reliability.
• Experience with maintenance work orders or a CMMS.
• Demonstrated structured problem‑solving capability.
• Ability to work effectively with operators, skilled trades, Engineering and manufacturing leadership.
• Strong leadership, coaching and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead AM/PM pillar implementation and associated Master Plan.
• Establish baseline equipment losses and identify priority/bad‑actor equipment.
• Develop operator and maintenance ownership for equipment condition.
• Lead initial cleaning and inspection activities to expose abnormalities and deterioration.
• Establish and manage equipment abnormality tagging and closure.
• Identify and address Sources of Contamination (SOC) and hard‑to‑access areas.
• Coordinate restoration of basic equipment conditions with Operations and skilled trades.
• Develop and implement Cleaning, Inspection and Lubrication (CIL) standards.
• Establish visual inspection points, centerlines and abnormal‑condition criteria.
• Develop One‑Point Lessons and operator equipment‑care capability.
• Define safe and appropriate boundaries between operator AM work and skilled‑trade work.
• Analyze CMMS data, maintenance history and breakdown trends.
• Develop breakdown Pareto analysis and identify recurring equipment failures.
• Apply equipment criticality analysis to prioritize maintenance resources.
• Track and improve MTBF and MTTR.
• Facilitate structured breakdown analysis and Root Cause Analysis.
• Improve PM standards, maintenance job plans and work‑order quality.
• Support PM optimization based on equipment condition, failure history and criticality.
• Improve planned versus reactive maintenance performance.
• Support critical‑spare and MRO strategies.
• Lead AM/PM Activity Board reviews and ensure actions are assigned, completed and verified.
• Develop operator and maintenance‑team capability through coaching and structured training.

Skills

Manufacturing maintenance leadership

Preventive maintenance

CMMS

Root Cause Analysis

Team leadership

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Cornerstone Building Brands is seeking an Autonomous Maintenance / Preventive Maintenance Pillar Lead to improve equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness in the Rocky Mount Model Line. You will partner with Operations, skilled trades and Engineering to establish conditions and reduce recurring failures.

The role emphasizes leading AM/PM, developing operator ownership, and implementing Cleaning, Inspection and Lubrication standards, with training provided.