Maintenance and Facilities Manager

Knight material technologies; East Canton (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Knight Material Technologies in East Canton, OH, is seeking a Maintenance and Facilities Manager to lead the maintenance and facilities team in the Manufacturing Operations Department. The role requires ensuring safety, coordinating maintenance activities, and managing resources to meet customer requirements and company standards.

Responsibilities include supervising diverse maintenance personnel, optimizing processes, and partnering with Purchasing and plant leadership to maintain compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor? Not specified.

Responsibilities

• Leads safety-first maintenance and facilities team.
• Maintains a team focused on site maintenance and facilities support.
• Assigns work to maximize resources and daily efficiency.
• Ensures timely completion of preventative maintenance and work orders.
• Evaluates direct reports and conducts performance reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Troubleshooting

Decision making

Safety mindset

Education

Technical degree or skilled-trade certification

Tools

CMMS

Electrical testing tools

Job description

Description

Job Type

Full-time

Job Title: Maintenance and Facilities Manager

Reports to: Manufacturing Operations Manager

Exempt Position

Location: East Canton, OH

The Maintenance and Facilities Manager is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities of maintenance and facilities team members within the Manufacturing Operations Department to ensure facilities and machinery support the ability to meet customer requirements while maintaining an environment that focuses on the Knight Material Technologies How We Work Principles of Safety and Compliance, Customer Focus, Respect, Integrity, Problem Solvers, and Teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Leads and maintains an environment that puts Safety and Compliance first.
• Develops and maintains a team that prioritizes delivering consistent maintenance and facility support for the East Canton site.
• Actively assigns work to ensure the best use of all available resources and a high level of efficiency daily.
• Ensures on time completion of preventative maintenance and work orders through tactical, hands on leadership of team members.
• Upholds primary responsibility for performance evaluation of direct reports in a timely manner.
• Communicates well with vendors to ensure proper procurement of components and works closely with Purchasing team to maintain company policies for procurement are followed.
• Organizes and manages service contractors, ensuring safety and compliance are a priority and results meet expectations.
• Holds regular meetings with teams to ensure clear communication of expectations and team alignment.
• Works with Manufacturing Operations Manager to manage headcount within the assigned area to support customer demand and company strategy.
• Maximizes resource utilization by evaluating and enhancing processes, tools, technology, and human resource capabilities working closely with plant leadership to ensure success.
• Analyzes and utilizes data from Maintenance Tracking System for performance evaluation relevant to assigned area, ensuring any variance to plan is addressed and corrected for sustained success.
• Plans, enacts, and ensures documentation of all training within assigned team.
• Actively works to always improve preventative maintenance strategy.
• Maintains inventory, through direct reports and individual inputs, of all maintenance stock using Maintenance Tracking System.
• Uses front line presence and hands on approach to lead the team in developing control over maintenance performance.
• Supports the administration of assigned area to ensure all team requirements are completed in a timely manner, as assigned by leadership.
• Works closely with the Manufacturing Operations Production and Materials teams to ensure consistent performance from machinery and facilities.
• Drive culture for ISO standards and ensure conformance throughout assigned team.
• Drive 5s culture through assigned team.
• Performs additional duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Facilities Team Members
• Electrical Maintenance Techs
• Mechanical Maintenance Techs
• Preventative Maintenance Techs

Competencies

• Drives Results
• Ensures Accountability
• Directs Work
• Plans and Aligns
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Manages Complexity
• Builds Effective Teams
• Communicates Effectively
• Situational Adaptability

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent
• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience, including 2+ years in a leadership role
• Experience supervising multi-craft maintenance in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, controls, HVAC, boiler, combustion, hydraulic, pneumatic, and compressed-air systems.
• Experience planning preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance.
• Proficiency with CMMS and maintenance management software.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements, lockout/tagout, and safe maintenance practices.
• Strong leadership, communication, troubleshooting, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to support urgent maintenance needs across multiple shifts.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in ceramics, continuous‑process, high‑temperature, or similar industrial manufacturing.
• Experience developing predictive maintenance and equipment reliability programs.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, spare‑parts inventory, contractors, and facility or capital projects.
• Acknowledge of industrial controls, combustion systems, utilities, or high‑temperature equipment.
• Experience using maintenance data and KPIs to reduce downtime and improve performance.
• Technical degree or relevant skilled‑trade certification.
• OSHA 30, CMRP, or Lean/Six Sigma training

Physical Requirements

• Extensive walking and standing
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a computer working
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds
• Must be able to access all areas of the facility