Maintenance Project Manager

AIT; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AIT is seeking a Maintenance Project Manager to direct planning, coordination, and execution of preventive maintenance and troubleshooting activities in a customer plant under a maintenance contract. The role leads the on-site AIT maintenance team, performs root cause analysis and manages costs while coordinating with customer production teams.

The candidate will oversee technicians, utilize diagnostic tools like PLCs and CAN Bus, and ensure safety compliance.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of a two-year technical degree.
• CPMM Certification or trade apprenticeship is a plus.
• Experience with CMMS (SAP, MAXIMO, e-Maintenance) to create work orders and manage maintenance data.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Preventive Maintenance to ensure equipment availability.
• Lead a team of technicians in troubleshooting and minor repairs.
• Use PLCs, CAN Bus or diagnostics tools to perform root cause analysis.
• Monitor costs and schedule resources effectively.
• Attend customer meetings and identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure safety of maintenance tasks and enforce safety policies.
• Provide training and develop maintenance technicians.
• Represent AIT on site and explore new business opportunities.

Skills

Team Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Safety Awareness

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Two-year technical degree

CPMM Certification or trade apprenticeship

Tools

SAP

MAXIMO

e-Maintenance

Job description

Summary:

The Maintenance Project Manager directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, completion of productive equipment Troubleshooting & Maintenance activities by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate AIT or contract employees in a customer plant within the framework of a Maintenance Contract with the customer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and execution of Preventive Maintenance activities to ensure equipment availability in the customer plant.
• Leads a team of skilled technicians (an AIT Technical Support Team) in the customer plant in all Troubleshooting and minor repair activities.
• Utilizes work experience and knowledge of PLCs, CAN Bus or other diagnostic and programming tools to keep automated equipment running. Performs root cause analysis of the equipment failures.
• Monitors and controls costs by effective scheduling of the available internal and external resources.
• Attends customer production and planning meetings, per customer requirements.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and advises the customer on the course of action.
• Answers or returns customer calls within a required time 24/7, assigns technicians available at the plant or comes in after hours to help the customer with an emergency equipment breakdown repair.

• Makes sure Maintenance tasks are performed in a safe manner and is responsible for Maintenance team members’ safety.
• Performs skills assessment and develops cross-functional on-the-job and formal classroom training for Maintenance Technicians.
• Effectively leads AIT on-site Maintenance team to provide excellent service to the customer.
• Acts as a face of AIT in the customer plant – ethical, competent, polite, willing and able to generate new business opportunities by identifying problems within or outside the contracted scope of work and offering solutions to the customer.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED Required.
• Minimum of a two-year technical degree.
• CPMM Certification or a trade school apprenticeship are a plus.
• Team Leadership and Management experience preferred.
• Effectively works with CMMS (SAP, MAXIMO, e-Maintenance, etc.) to create work orders, set up maintenance schedules, manage spare parts, analyze data, generate reports for the customer.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must be able to obtain, maintain and/or currently possess a Secret security clearance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.

• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices.
• Behaves consistently and predictably; is reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations and diligently follows through on commitments and consistently meets deadlines.
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
• Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
• Knowledge of computer applications including email, databases, word-processing program and spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Office).
• Respond and follow up to a customer’s inquiry or problem in a timely and effective manner.
• Identifies problems and review relevant information to develop options, then implement the solutions.
• Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

Work Conditions:

Environment Type:

• Indoors. Production and office environment. Temperature controlled, unless products and/or equipment is located outdoors.

Exposure Types:

• Cuts and/or burns
• Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil
• Noisy environment

Work Hours:

• Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines, required travel, and emergent conditions.

Travel Requirements:

• Remote - perform job responsibilities from customer work sites.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.