Maintenance & Facilities Manager

Global Recruiters of Fort Smith (GRN Fort Smith); Tennessee; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Recruiters of Fort Smith (GRN Fort Smith) seeks a Lead maintenance, facilities, and reliability leader to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective operation of production equipment and building systems.

You will direct multi-shift teams, capital projects, contractor activity, and continuous-improvement initiatives while maintaining uptime and safety standards across complex facility infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Industrial Technology, or related field; extensive directly relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible manufacturing, industrial, or plant experience with leadership of maintenance, facilities, engineering, and multi-shift teams.
• Experience managing capital installations or facility improvements and budgets exceeding $10 million.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance, facilities, plant engineering, technical teams, and contractors across shifts; set priorities and allocate resources.
• Ensure reliability of production assets including electrical, mechanical, and automation systems; oversee preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Direct planning, root-cause analysis, spare-parts management, and reliability improvement programs via CMMS.
• Track uptime, downtime, PM compliance, maintenance cost, MTTR, MTBF, and efficiency; report to plant leadership.
• Manage facility infrastructure and utilities, including electrical distribution, HVAC, boilers/chillers, water systems, and safety systems.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Maintenance planning

Budget management

CMMS usage

Capital projects

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Facilities Management/Industrial Technology

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Lead plant maintenance, facilities, and reliability functions to ensure the safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operation of production equipment, building systems, and utilities. Direct multi-shift maintenance execution, capital improvements, contractor activity, emergency response, maintenance systems, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY

• High-complexity, high-independence leadership role responsible for maintenance, facilities, plant engineering, technical personnel, contractors, and multi-shift support.
• Operational scope includes industrial equipment, facility infrastructure, utilities, reliability systems, capital projects, business continuity, and budgets exceeding $10 million.
• Business impact includes equipment uptime, production continuity, safety, compliance, asset life, operating cost, energy efficiency, and ESG performance.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead maintenance, facilities, plant engineering, technical teams, and contractors across applicable shifts; establish priorities, develop capability, and communicate risks, results, and resource needs to plant leadership.
• Ensure the reliability of production assets including welders, CNC equipment, presses, conveyors, robotics, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, motors, electrical systems, PLCs, controls, and automation.
• Direct preventive and predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, planning, root-cause analysis, spare-parts management, and reliability improvement; use the CMMS to manage schedules, work orders, asset history, backlog, and performance reporting.
• Track and improve key measures including uptime, unplanned downtime, PM compliance, maintenance cost, MTTR, MTBF, and operational efficiency.
• Manage facility infrastructure and utilities including electrical distribution, HVAC, compressed air, boilers and chillers, water and wastewater, fire protection, and building systems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Industrial Technology, or a related field; extensive directly relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible manufacturing, industrial, or plant experience, including leadership of maintenance, facilities, engineering, technical personnel, contractors, and multi-shift support as applicable.
• Experience managing capital installations or facility improvements and maintenance, facilities, operating, contractor, spare-parts, and capital budgets exceeding $10 million.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Documented results improving uptime, PM compliance, MTTR, MTBF, cost, and operational efficiency through reliability, predictive-maintenance, or continuous-improvement programs.
• Experience managing utility consumption and reducing energy use, operating cost, and resource consumption in support of ESG objectives.