Industrial Maintenance Leader: Safety, Strategy & Growth

Advanced Technology Services; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 103,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Technology Services (ATS) in Newark; seeks a senior operations leader to drive safety, reliability, and cost discipline across manufacturing maintenance. You will lead teams, align site priorities with ATS strategy, and develop workforce capability through training and performance management.

You will implement site maintenance plans, manage financial performance, and leverage data tools like Power BI to improve outcomes while building strong customer relationships and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technical, business, or related field preferred or seven years of operations / maintenance experience.
• Three years of supervisory experience with a strong focus on development of employees.
• Resilient and flexible, able to multitask and prioritize with an innate ability to understand and accept change and motivate others around change.
• Highly tuned emotional intelligence with demonstrated ability to build relationships and lead teams with honesty and integrity to achieve goals.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing / assembly work environment.
• Business acumen
• Positive influencer with appropriate levels of organization.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to build positive business relationships and show a sense of urgency.
• Manufacturing maintenance experience preferred with related certifications and training.
• Good understanding of, and/or experience with, proactive/reliability maintenance processes, i.e., Planning/Scheduling, P/M, PdM, and root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Good computer skills, including Microsoft applications and web-based applications such as Power BI, GEAC, Concur, Workday and related software
• Ability to relocate to specified locations
• Excellent communications skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
• Agile, curious learner and authentic, credible teacher
• Financial acumen and knowledge of forecasting and managing budgets

Responsibilities

• Leads and ensures the Operating System is understood, reinforced, and embedded.
• Develops and executes a site-specific maintenance plan per ATS standards.
• Manages financial performance of the site (revenue, expenses, and profit) to achieve set objectives.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with all ATS business units, fully utilizing their services and ensuring cross-functional alignment.
• Collaborates with and builds customer relationships to ensure priority alignment and proactively anticipates customer needs as the primary on site contact.
• Ensures alignment of customer expectations and ATS site goals through management of site-specific contracts.
• Communicates with the customer through daily, weekly, and monthly meetings and conducts a regular review of the performance metrics with the customer.
• Drives a continuous improvement methodology and promotes cost savings.
• Analyzes and reports on key performance indicators, completing root cause analyses and developing and executing action items while removing barriers and addressing issues.
• Collaborates with sales and operations leadership to increase the scope of services.

Skills

Safety leadership

Change management

Emotional intelligence

Manufacturing maintenance

Business acumen

Customer focus

Planning/Scheduling

Predictive maintenance

Excellent communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical, business, or related field

Seven years of operations/maintenance experience

Tools

Power BI

GEAC

Concur

Workday

Microsoft Office

Job description

Advanced Technology Services (ATS) in Newark; seeks a senior operations leader to drive safety, reliability, and cost discipline across manufacturing maintenance. You will lead teams, align site priorities with ATS strategy, and develop workforce capability through training and performance management.

You will implement site maintenance plans, manage financial performance, and leverage data tools like Power BI to improve outcomes while building strong customer relationships and delivering