Maintenance Project Manager

Advanced Integration Technology; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical for employees and family

Casual work environment

Job summary

Advanced Integration Technology (AIT) is the world's largest provider of automation, factory integration and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace, defense, and space launch vehicle industries.

The Maintenance Project Manager leads planning, organization and control of preventive maintenance and on-site troubleshooting, directing technicians to keep customer equipment running safely and reliably. Strong CMMS and leadership skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with CMMS (SAP, MAXIMO, e-Maintenance) to create work orders and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Preventive Maintenance to ensure equipment availability.
• Lead a team of technicians on-site for troubleshooting and minor repairs.
• Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures.
• Monitor costs by scheduling internal and external resources effectively.
• Attend customer production and planning meetings as required.
• Identify improvements and advise the customer on action plans.

Skills

Team Leadership

Preventive Maintenance

Root Cause Analysis

Safety Compliance

Planning & Scheduling

CMMS Knowledge

Education

Two-year technical degree

High School Diploma or GED

CPMM Certification or trade apprenticeship

Tools

SAP

MAXIMO

e-Maintenance

Job description

AIT is the world's largest provider of automation, factory integration and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace, defense, and space launch vehicle industries.

AIT offers a competitive compensation package (including free medical options for employees and their family), casual work environment and excellent growth opportunities.

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

• 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.

AIT is an Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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