Maintenance Manager

Saigepartners; DeWitt (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Saige Partners in DeWitt, IA seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead a team responsible for plant machinery, including glass melting furnace equipment and automated handling systems.

The role focuses on reliability, coaching, and strategic maintenance planning to align with the plant vision and drive continuous improvement. Ideal candidates bring engineering rigor and experience in a 24/7 operation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a Maintenance/Reliability department.
• Experience partnering with Production leadership to improve equipment reliability.
• Experience with identification and development of leading indicators for reliability of critical assets.
• Experience maintaining hydraulics, pneumatics, and industrial level electrical/ PLCs, motor control centers, utility systems, transformers, switchgears, process instrumentation.
• Experience working in a 24/7 operation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and strategically manage the Maintenance department and all maintenance-related activities aligned with the plant vision.
• Provide coaching and feedback to help employees recognize strengths and weaknesses to succeed in the organization.
• Develop solutions and make recommendations for maintenance and operations using analytical tools such as RCM, FMEA, and RCA.
• Create an environment that challenges employees to acquire new knowledge and continuously improve.
• Implement reliability centered maintenance to ensure equipment readiness.
• Utilize maintenance data systems that support work orders, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvements.
• Organize, coordinate, and lead the maintenance team to meet plant objectives.
• Diagnose equipment problems, determine repair/replacement needs, tear down, repair/replace parts, and reassemble equipment.
• Lead cost control and continuous improvement in the department including spare inventory.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Reliability engineering

Asset reliability

Industrial PLCs

Process instrumentation

Education

Bachelor's of Science in Engineering

Tools

RCM

FMEA

RCA

Job description

Maintenance Manager (Guardian - DeWitt, IA)

We strive to be Your Future, Your Solution to accelerate your career!

In this role, you will lead a team that maintains plant machinery that includes glass melting furnace equipment, raw material batching equipment, utility water and compressed air systems, fans, robots, automated glass handling equipment, and plant support equipment.

Our Team

We are a principled based company that relies heavily on teamwork and ingenuity. We pride ourselves on being the partner of choice for our internal and external customers.

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What You Will Do

• Lead and strategically manage the Maintenance department and all maintenance-related activities that are aligned with the plant vision
• Provide coaching and feedback to help employees recognize their strengths and weaknesses within their role to help them succeed in the organization.
• Develop solutions and make recommendations for maintenance and operations teams using analytical tools such as RCM, FMEA, and RCA.
• Generate an environment that seeks to challenge the employee to acquire and learn new knowledge that will help them to continuously improve.
• Implement reliability centered maintenance management practices to ensure equipment is always in a dependable state of readiness.
• Utilize maintenance data systems that support work orders, preventative maintenance, and reliability improvements.
• Organize, coordinate, and lead maintenance team to successfully meet plant objectives.
• Manage the diagnosis of equipment problems, determine repair/replacement needs of machinery, tear down, repair/replace defective parts and reassemble equipment.
• Lead cost control and continuous improvement in your department which includes critical & consumable spare inventory in Plant storeroom.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading and managing a Maintenance/ Reliability department
• Experience in partnering with Production leadership to resolve issues and improve plant equipment reliability.
• Experience with identification and development of leading indicators for reliability of critical assets
• Experience maintaining hydraulics, pneumatics, and industrial level electrical / PLC's, motor control centers, Utility systems, transformers, switchgears, process instrumentation.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in innovation
• Automation experience
• Experience with condition monitoring through use of technology & sensors to monitor health of assets in real time
• Experience with robotic equipment
• Bachelor’s of Science degree in Engineering (preferred, but not required)
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 operation

Saige Partners, one of the fastest growing technology and talent companies in the Midwest, believes in people with a passion to help them succeed. We are in the business of helping professionals Build Careers, Not Jobs. Saige Partners believes employees are the most valuable asset to building a thriving and successful company culture.