Maintenance Manager

Talnt; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Talnt in Birmingham, AL, is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead plant maintenance and reliability initiatives. You will supervise technicians and external contractors, develop preventive and predictive programs, and drive equipment uptime across a heavy manufacturing environment.

The role emphasizes root cause analysis, budget oversight, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, safety, quality, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• The candidate has significant industrial maintenance experience in manufacturing or related heavy industry.
• Prior leadership experience supervising technicians or skilled trades employees.
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting knowledge for plant equipment.
• Experience in preventive maintenance programs and CMMS management.
• Knowledge of motors, drives, hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, and conveyors.
• Ability to analyze failures and implement root cause corrective actions.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, contractors, spare parts, and projects.
• Excellent leadership, planning, and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead plant maintenance operations and supervise technicians, electricians, mechanics, and contractors.
• Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to maximize uptime.
• Prioritize work orders, emergency repairs, and shutdown activities.
• Diagnose recurring equipment failures and implement permanent fixes.
• Monitor reliability metrics and equipment availability.
• Coordinate maintenance with production, engineering, safety, and operations.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, and service contracts.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, and improvements.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA and safety standards.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Industrial electrical

Root cause analysis

Budget management

Cross-functional communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Job description

About the Role:

The Maintenance Manager, also commonly searched as Industrial Maintenance Manager, Plant Maintenance Manager, Maintenance and Reliability Manager, and Manufacturing Maintenance Manager, leads maintenance and reliability activities within an industrial manufacturing facility in the Birmingham, Alabama area. This position is responsible for equipment uptime, preventive and predictive maintenance, skilled trades leadership, troubleshooting, spare parts management, capital improvements, and continuous improvement of plant equipment and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead plant maintenance operations and supervise maintenance technicians, electricians, mechanics, and outside contractors.
• Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs that maximize equipment reliability and production uptime.
• Prioritize maintenance work orders, emergency repairs, shutdown activities, planned maintenance, and equipment improvement projects.
• Diagnose recurring mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, and facility equipment failures and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Establish and monitor equipment reliability metrics including downtime, mean time between failures, maintenance cost, preventive maintenance completion, and equipment availability.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with production, engineering, safety, quality, and operations leadership.
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, contractor services, repair expenses, and equipment replacement recommendations.
• Support installation, commissioning, relocation, modification, and improvement of manufacturing equipment and facility systems.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with OSHA, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, machine guarding, confined space, and applicable environmental requirements.
• Develop maintenance employees through technical training, cross-training, performance management, and succession planning.

Qualifications:

• Significant industrial maintenance experience within manufacturing, heavy industry, metals, machining, fabrication, or a related production environment.
• Previous maintenance leadership experience supervising technicians or skilled trades employees.
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting knowledge involving industrial manufacturing equipment.
• Experience developing and managing preventive maintenance programs and computerized maintenance management systems, CMMS.
• Knowledge of motors, drives, hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, pumps, industrial electrical systems, and production machinery.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze equipment failures and implement root cause corrective actions.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, vendors, contractors, spare parts, and equipment projects.
• Strong leadership, planning, prioritization, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• Associate or bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, or condition monitoring.
• PLC, controls, automation, variable frequency drive, or industrial electrical troubleshooting experience.
• Lean manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.
• Experience supporting high-temperature, foundry, metal processing, machining, or heavy industrial equipment.