Maintenance Manager

Crescent

Kentucky

On-site

USD 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Crescent is seeking a Maintenance Manager in Kentucky to lead a dedicated maintenance team. The role involves ensuring safe and efficient operations through preventive maintenance and continuous improvement efforts.

Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in maintenance with strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of mechanical and electrical systems. The position offers opportunities for development and contribution to a proactive safety culture.

Qualifications

7+ years in maintenance leadership roles required.
Strong background in industrial maintenance (mechanical/electrical) essential.
Ability to lead and develop teams is proven.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop maintenance teams to ensure safety and efficiency.
Implement continuous improvement processes.
Manage maintenance budget and optimize costs.

Skills

Leadership

Mechanical systems

Electrical systems

CMMS systems

Continuous Improvement

MS Office tools

Education

Associate degree or higher in a technical field

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading a high-performing maintenance team that delivers safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This role balances leadership, technical expertise, and execution, ensuring equipment uptime and plant performance through strong preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

The Maintenance Manager builds team capability, drives accountability, and partners cross-functionally to support production, customer needs, and asset performance.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Required:

7+ years in maintenance leadership roles
Strong background in industrial maintenance (mechanical/electrical systems)
Experience with CMMS systems and work order processes
Proven ability to lead and develop teams
Process oriented, results driven
Technology –Efficient in MS Office tools (Excel, Power Point, Word), and able to use them to communicate priorities, issues and opportunities

Preferred :

Associate degree or higher in a technical field
Experience with packaging or automated manufacturing systems
Lean / CI experience (TPM, Six Sigma, etc.)
Project management and capital installation experience

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Safety

Foster a proactive safety culture in all maintenance activities
Ensure full compliance with OSHA, LOTO, electrical safety, confined space, hot work, working at heights
Ensure all maintenance work is executed safely and equipment operates safely
Lead safety observations and risk elimination efforts
Maintain strong 5S and housekeeping standards across all maintenance areas

Quality

Ensure all equipment supports consistent, quality output
Support investigations into quality issues and corrective actions
Maintain compliance with internal standards, audits, and applicable regulation
Ensure equipment is set up and maintained to support efficient production
Support production start-ups, transitions, and troubleshooting in real time
Champion continuous improvement using Lean / CI tools
Provide technical input on equipment design, upgrades, and process

People

Lead, coach, and develop maintenance technicians into a high-performing team
Build technical capability through structured training and skill development
Set clear goals and expectations for performance, accountability, and work quality
Identify and develop future leaders within the team
Drive engagement, recognition, and a culture of ownership
Partner with Site Operations, Engineering and Corporate Teams to support the site

Productivity

Own and execute the site maintenance strategy, including:
- Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Predictive / condition-based maintenance (as applicable)
Ensure all PMs and work orders are completed safely, on time, and correctly
Drive improvements in equipment uptime, reliability, and responsiveness
Lead troubleshooting and ensure rapid, effective resolution of equipment issues
Perform and lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes
Reduce repeat failures and unplanned downtime through structured problem-solving
Own and improve the CMMS
- Work orders, PM schedules, asset history, and spare parts
Ensure accurate documentation of all maintenance activity and downtime
stablish strong planning and scheduling discipline aligned to production needs
Maintain appropriate spare parts inventory to support uptime
Use data and trends to prioritize work and drive decision-making

Customer Value

Support capital projects, installations, and equipment upgrades
Participate in design reviews, commissioning, and launch readiness
Evaluate new technologies that improve safety, reliability, or productivity
Manage vendors, contractors, and external technical resources as needed

Financial

Manage maintenance budget, repair costs, and service spending
Understand and provide ROI or other financial analysis when neededOptimize cost through effective parts sourcing and vendor management
Identify cost-saving opportunities through reliability improvements

Cultural Competencies

Do It Right

Doing what is right for our customers, doing what is right for our company and doing what is right for our People. Continually improving the quality of our products and services. Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality. Doing it Right ensures we are always becoming a Premier Service Provider.

Identifies and counters resistance to change
Advocates continuous improvement
Forges teams and provides direction
Provides constructive performance feedback
Willingly adjusts the make-up of the team
Plans, delegates, and follows up
Guides others to improve collaboration
Entrepreneurial initiative

Do It Safe

Self-assured yet humble
Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener
Patient
Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontation
Solution vs. blame oriented
Mixture of firmness and flexibility
Has energy and enthusiasm
Holds self and others accountable
Willing to take calculated risks.

Do It Well

Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well. Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone. At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.

Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not
Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
Maintains sense of urgency
Follows up to ensure quality task completion
Disciplined Self Starter

Work Environment / Physical Demands

Frequent sitting, standing, walking, and lifting (up to 35 lbs.)
Resourceful, adaptable, and detail-oriented
Capable of operating powered industrial vehicles.
Capable of working at heights, including operating scissor and articulated boom lifts.

Management Reasoning and Organizational Skills

Strong leadership, trainer and team development skills
Hands‑on technical troubleshooting (mechanical, electrical, automation)
Strong organization, planning and budget management
Proactive in working with planning and scheduling to eliminate waste
Ability to balance urgent execution with long‑term improvement and strategy
Cross‑functional collaboration and communication
Continuous improvement mindset (waste elimination) and structured problem solving

Systems Usage