Director of Maintenance & Asset Reliability

Daniels Sharpsmart; Sturtevant (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Daniels Health seeks a Director of Maintenance to lead enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy across our North American network. This role partners with Operations, Engineering, Safety, Supply Chain and Executive Leadership to build world-class maintenance programs across multiple sites.

You will oversee predictive and preventive maintenance, drive asset uptime, and manage capital investments while building high-performing teams and implementing data-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering required.
• 10+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience.
• 5+ years leading multi-site operations.
• Proven experience managing large-scale capital projects and reliability programs.
• Expertise with CMMS platforms, predictive maintenance and industrial automation technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the long-term maintenance and reliability roadmap.
• Establish enterprise maintenance standards, governance, SOPs and KPIs.
• Build high-performing maintenance teams through coaching, succession planning and leadership development.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on asset strategy, operational risk and infrastructure investments.
• Champion a culture of accountability, innovation, safety and continuous improvement.
• Lead predictive, preventative and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Drive OEE, uptime and asset utilization improvements across facilities.
• Implement CMMS, automation, IIoT and data-driven maintenance solutions.
• Lead root cause analysis initiatives and eliminate recurring failures.
• Develop asset lifecycle and replacement strategies.
• Own maintenance operating budgets and capital investment planning.
• Develop business cases and ROI models for strategic projects.
• Lead major equipment upgrades, facility improvements and automation investments.
• Manage vendor partnerships, contracts and service performance.
• Oversee maintenance strategy for boilers, autoclaves, wash lines, robotics, conveyance systems, compactors, utilities and other critical production assets.
• Provide technical leadership, audit site performance, ensure compliance and support emergency operational response when required.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Asset reliability

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

CMMS

Predictive maintenance

Industrial automation

Job description

Daniels Health seeks a Director of Maintenance to lead enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy across our North American network. This role partners with Operations, Engineering, Safety, Supply Chain and Executive Leadership to build world-class maintenance programs across multiple sites.

You will oversee predictive and preventive maintenance, drive asset uptime, and manage capital investments while building high-performing teams and implementing data-driven solutions.