Maintenance Manager

ABB Inc; Fort Smith (AR); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company contributions

Paid holidays

Job summary

ABB Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Manager for the Fort Smith, AR facility. The role focuses on leading maintenance, reliability and TPM programs to improve MTBF, MTTR, and overall equipment uptime.

You will implement preventive, predictive, and operator-driven maintenance, leveraging CMMS tools and Industry 4.0 technologies. The successful candidate will guide RCFA efforts, manage budgets, and collaborate across functions to enhance safety, quality, and cost performance while advancing asset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 10 years OR Associate’s Degree with minimum 12 years OR High School Diploma with minimum 14 years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated TPM and RCMA/RCFA capabilities for proactive maintenance programs including OPM, PM, PdM.
• Strong knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies and KPI management (MTBF, MTTR, OEE).
• Experience using CMMS platforms (SAP preferred) for planning, scheduling, and reliability analysis.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and improve maintenance, reliability, and TPM programs to boost equipment uptime.
• Utilize CMMS analytics and reliability metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead budgeting, planning, and capital project support for the facility.
• Ensure safe, compliant plant operations and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

TPM

CMMS analytics

Predictive maintenance

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree

High school diploma

Tools

SAP

Vibration analysis

Thermography

Oil analysis

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

Plant Manager

The work model for the role is:

Onsite

Your role and responsibilities:

The Maintenance Manager leads all maintenance, reliability, and asset management activities for the Fort Smith manufacturing facility, improving equipment reliability, operational excellence, and manufacturing performance through a comprehensive Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategy. This role oversees the development and execution of Operator Preventive Maintenance (OPM), Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), and Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs, leveraging technologies such as condition monitoring, vibration analysis, thermal imaging, oil analysis, and CMMS tools to help prevent equipment failures.

The position promotes a reliability-focused culture by improving continuous improvement in key performance indicators including MTBF, MTTR, OEE, uptime, and maintenance costs. The Maintenance Manager leads Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) efforts and collaborates cross-functionally to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance while ensuring sustainable asset reliability and operational excellence.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Oversee and continuously improve maintenance, reliability, and TPM programs by implementing proactive, preventive, predictive, and operator-driven maintenance strategies that improve equipment performance and uptime.
• Strengthen asset reliability and operational excellence through CMMS analytics, reliability metrics (MTBF, MTTR, OEE), root cause failure analysis, lifecycle planning, and Industry 4.0 technologies.
• Manage maintenance operations, resources, and budgets by optimizing planning and scheduling, building technical capability, controlling costs, and ensuring effective support for capital projects and facility growth.
• Ensure safe, compliant, and efficient plant operations by meeting regulatory and corporate requirements, supporting plant performance objectives, and coordinating maintenance response to critical equipment and operational issues.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 10 years OR Associate’s Degree with minimum 12 years OR High School Diploma with minimum 14 years of maintenance experience working in a manufacturing environment. Including practical diagnosis and repair of PLCs, industrial controls, electrical and mechanical systems, and automated production equipment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in TPM, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), asset management, and proactive maintenance programs, including OPM, PM, PdM, and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA).
• Strong knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies and reliability methodologies, including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, oil analysis, condition monitoring, and reliability KPI management (MTBF, MTTR, OEE, uptime).
• Experience utilizing CMMS platforms (SAP preferred) for maintenance planning, scheduling, resource management, reliability analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Proven leadership in automated manufacturing environments, with the ability to develop teams, drive cultural change, manage budgets and capital projects, and deliver operational excellence.
• Excellent communication, coaching, project management, and cross-functional collaboration skills; Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPM, CMRP, CRL, or related certifications preferred.
• Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

More about us

ABB’s NEMA Motors Division is the global leading electric NEMA motors manufacturer. With more than 4,500 employees across the globe and seven manufacturing locations that produce more than 1.6 million motors every year, the division powers its customers from many industries with safe, reliable energy-efficient and effective solutions. NEMA Motors Division is a trusted leader with the shortest lead time and the broadest modularized product offering.

What's In It For You

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affrightive Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affrightive Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.

Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [e-mail]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.

ABB Benefit Summary For Eligible US Employees

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to buy-up to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

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