Foundry Maintenance Lead - 1st Shift (Relocation)

Caterpillar Inc.; Mapleton (IL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Mapleton, IL is seeking a maintenance leader to drive safety, reliability, and continuous improvement in the Mapleton Foundry. You will lead a multi-skilled team, coordinate maintenance work, and ensure alignment with production goals while managing budgets and resources.

This role emphasizes TPM, safety, and cost management. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning to prioritize maintenance and outages, while coaching staff to build technical

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams in a foundry.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Foundry maintenance and reliability expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities across the foundry, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment and facilities.
• Develop, prioritize, and coordinate work plans for maintenance employees and contractors, ensuring maintenance activities are executed effectively and aligned with production requirements.
• Review, audit, and validate maintenance work performed by technicians and contractors to ensure quality workmanship, adherence to standards, and effective resolution of equipment issues.
• Drive daily maintenance execution by providing direction, coaching, and oversight to off-shift Section Managers, ensuring leadership expectations, priorities, and business objectives are consistently communicated and achieved across all shifts.
• Monitor and improve key maintenance performance metrics, including safety performance, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, equipment availability, asset reliability, MTBF, MTTR, backlog management, and departmental goals.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities for equipment failures, implementing corrective actions that improve reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all company, regulatory, and environmental requirements, including LOTO, confined space, hot work, and contractor safety procedures.
• Manage maintenance resources, including labor, tools, equipment, contractor services, spare parts, and inventory, while ensuring resources are available to support operational needs.
• Oversee maintenance budgeting and cost management activities, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spending, and reduce maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability.
• Ensure completion of required employee training, certifications, compliance requirements, and workforce development activities, while coaching and developing team members to enhance technical capability and leadership skills.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning teams to establish maintenance priorities, coordinate planned outages, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

MS Office

Foundry experience

Machining

Reliability Eng

Mechanical systems

Hydraulics

Electrical systems

PLCs/Automation

Melting furnaces

Dust collection

Conveyors

Mold handling

Shot blasting

Cranes

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Mapleton, IL is seeking a maintenance leader to drive safety, reliability, and continuous improvement in the Mapleton Foundry. You will lead a multi-skilled team, coordinate maintenance work, and ensure alignment with production goals while managing budgets and resources.

This role emphasizes TPM, safety, and cost management. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning to prioritize maintenance and outages, while coaching staff to build technical