Engineering & Maintenance Manager

CREMER North America, LP; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CREMER North America, LP seeks an Engineering & Maintenance Manager to lead engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation across our Cincinnati manufacturing operations.

This leader partners with Plant Managers and site teams to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and on-time delivery while building world-class capabilities through TPM and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• 7–10 years of progressive experience in engineering/maintenance leadership.
• Experience setting strategy across teams and influencing outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, CMMS, asset lifecycle management.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the multi-year roadmap for engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation.
• Translate objectives into prioritized standards, investments, projects, and capability improvements.
• Own asset-management framework and improve equipment capability, reliability, and OEE.
• Lead site action plans with Plant Managers and support local accountability for execution.
• Drive World Class Manufacturing operating system and maintenance excellence across sites.
• Provide technical leadership for major equipment issues with root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

MBA (preferred)

Tools

CMMS

Job description

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Engineering & Maintenance Manager

OADMIN-SALARY Full Time First/Mid Level Mgrs Cincinnati, OH, US

Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Position Title: Engineering and Maintenance Manager

Supervisor: VP of Operations Date Completed: 8/28/2026

Department: Corporate Engineering FLSA Classification: Exempt

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Engineering & Maintenance Manager sets the strategic direction for engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation across the company’s manufacturing operations for personal care products and oleochemicals. This leader ensures our plants, assets, and technical systems support Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery, customer requirements, and business growth.

As a member of the Extended Leadership Team and a key business partner to Operations, this role leads a small corporate team of subject matter expert engineers and project managers while partnering closely with Plant Managers and site teams. The role establishes standards, drives technical excellence, builds capabilities, and strengthens plant ownership of results through our World Class Manufacturing operating system.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering, Maintenance & Reliability Strategy

• Develop and lead the multi-year roadmap for engineering, maintenance, reliability, equipment, instrumentation, controls, and automation.
• Translate corporate objectives, customer requirements, and plant needs into prioritized standards, investments, projects, and capability improvements.
• Manage the company assets using equipment criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance, planning and scheduling, spare parts, equipment history, and CMMS standards.
• Own the asset-management framework and asset master plan to improve equipment capability, reliability, availability, lifecycle cost, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Plant & Operational Excellence

• Partner with Plant Managers to establish site action plans, ownership, resources, and priorities while maintaining local accountability for execution.
• Advance our World Class Manufacturing operating system, including maintenance excellence, autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, early equipment management, structured problem solving, and capability building.
• Provide technical leadership for major or recurring equipment failures, ensuring robust root cause analysis, corrective actions, and cross-site learning.
• Establish engineering standards for equipment design, maintainability, controls, instrumentation, automation, commissioning, documentation, qualification/validation, and Management of Change.
• Lead engineering and capital projects from business case and scope through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, handover, and post-project review.
• Support annual capital planning and recommend priorities based on safety, quality, compliance, customer requirements, asset risk, capacity, cost, and strategic value.

Maintenance Technical Knowledge

• Mixing & Blending: Industrial mixers, blenders, agitators, and mixing vessels.
• Processing Systems: Tanks, pumps, valves, piping, dosing, and material transfer systems.
• Process Technology: Filtration, heat exchangers, temperature control, instrumentation, and automation.
• Packaging Equipment: Conveyors, filling, sealing, labeling, and palletizing systems.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Mechanical, electrical, automation, and process-related failures.
• Lead and develop a small team of engineers and project managers, establishing clear priorities, roles, decision rights, and performance expectations.
• Mentor plant engineering and maintenance managers and strengthen the technical bench through training, development, and succession planning.
• Partners across Operations, EHSS, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, customers, suppliers, contractors, OEMs, and service providers.
• Manage assigned budgets, contracted services, resources, and the escalation of significant operational or technical risks.
• Proven experience leading structured continuous improvement programs with measurable business results.
• Ability to develop and coach cross-functional teams in WCM/TPM/Lean methodologies.
• Strong analytical capabilities, KPI management, and systematic loss analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to establish standards, sustain improvements, and build a proactive problem-solving culture.
• Lead deployment of the company’s Planned Maintenance (PM) pillar roadmap, from asset assessment and restoration through information systems, periodic maintenance and advanced reliability practices + Spare Parts Management.
• Collaborate with Autonomous Maintenance, Focused Improvement, Early Equipment Management and Education & Training pillars.
• Use RCA, 5 Why, Pareto, FMEA/FMECA, RCM and loss analysis to remove chronic equipment failures and improve OEE.
• Translate plant business priorities into a measurable maintenance improvement plan and regular performance reviews.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Industrial Technology Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 7–10 years of progressive experience in engineering, maintenance, reliability, or a related manufacturing leadership role.
• Experience setting strategy and achieving results by working across teams.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, maintenance planning and scheduling, root cause analysis, asset lifecycle management, and CMMS.
• Strong business judgment, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Working knowledge and practical experience with CMMS systems.

Preferred Experience

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Experience in 24/7 manufacturing environments.
• Experience with liquids, solids, batch, and/or continuous processing.
• Experience in personal care, oleochemicals, chemicals, consumer products, food, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of World Class Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Lean manufacturing, structured problem solving, and change management.
• Experience with instrumentation, controls, automation, and capital-project execution.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, disability, age, marital status, disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, pregnancy, including childbirth or any related condition, gender identity or expression, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.