Maintenance Manager

USTBC ABB Installation Products Inc.; Fort Smith (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB Fort Smith is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance, reliability, and TPM programs at the Fort Smith manufacturing facility. The role emphasizes improving equipment uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and OEE through proactive and predictive strategies, including OPC-driven maintenance and RCFA.

The candidate will drive asset management, oversee CMMS (SAP) usage, and collaborate across functions to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals while supporting plant growth and sustainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
• Experience with TPM, RCM and RCFA techniques.
• Proficiency in CMMS like SAP for planning and analytics.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance, reliability, and TPM programs to improve equipment uptime.
• Oversee CMMS analytics and reliability metrics (MTBF, MTTR, OEE).
• Manage maintenance operations, budgets, and capital projects.
• Ensure safe, compliant plant operations and regulatory adherence.

Skills

TPM

RCM

RCFA

Predictive maintenance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Associate's Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

SAP CMMS

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

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The work model for the role is: Onsite #LI-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.

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 Affiat ve Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

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