Maintenance & Tooling Manager

Virnig Manufacturing, Inc.; Minnesota; Presencial; USD 90.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Virnig Manufacturing, Inc. in Minnesota seeks a Maintenance & Tooling Manager to lead maintenance operations across multiple plants, prioritizing reliability and uptime. You will oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, standardize CMMS processes, manage budgets and vendors, and drive tooling and fixture improvements across sites.

Travel between locations is required. This role offers opportunities to lead a distributed team in a growing manufacturing environment with

Formación

• 3+ years industrial maintenance experience.
• 3+ years leadership experience, multi-site preferred.
• Strong knowledge of industrial systems and automation.
• Experience leading cross-functional multi-site teams.
• Experience with CMMS and predictive maintenance tools.
• Willingness to travel between sites.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and develop maintenance teams across multiple plants.
• Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Ensure equipment reliability, maximize uptime, and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Standardize maintenance processes and CMMS usage across sites.
• Manage budgets, spare parts, and vendor/contractor performance.
• Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure all contractor policies are followed, and documentation is up to date.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, environmental, and safety standards (LOTO, hot work, confined space).
• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades, and installations
• Report on KPIs and align maintenance with production goals

Conocimientos

Maintenance leadership

Industrial maintenance

CMMS

Predictive maintenance

Multi-site leadership

Automation knowledge

Travel between sites

Herramientas

CMMS software

Descripción del empleo

Description

Located in the heart of Central Minnesota, Virnig Manufacturing has been designing and producing skid steer loader attachments since 1989. From engineering and cutting raw materials to machining, welding, and painting the finished product, all steps of the manufacturing process are done in-house. Today, the family-owned and operated business has grown into a premium attachment manufacturer supplying North America and beyond. By integrating the latest manufacturing technologies and using top-of-the-line materials, Virnig has distinguished themselves as a cut above the rest in the manufacturing industry.

The Maintenance & Tooling Manager Leads maintenance operations across multiple facilities to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance of critical equipment. Drive up time of equipment, process standardization, and continuous improvement while managing distributed teams. Provides leadership and strategic oversight to the Tooling Department, including tooling engineers and technicians responsible for fixture design, build, maintenance, and continuous improvement, ensuring tooling resources support production and new product launches.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $90,000 – $100,000 annually

Benefits Package Includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer match
• Generous PTO including vacation and paid holidays
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Bonus opportunity

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance Responsibilities

• Lead and develop maintenance teams across multiple plants
• Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs
• Ensure equipment reliability, maximize uptime, and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Standardize maintenance processes and CMMS usage across sites
• Manage budgets, spare parts, and vendor/contractor performance
• Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure all contractor policies are followed, and documentation is up to date
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, environmental, and safety standards (LOTO, hot work, confined space)

Tooling Leadership

• Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for the Tooling Department, including tooling engineers, technicians, and future support roles.
• Attend new product meetings to coordinate tooling build schedules and ensure tooling readiness for on-time product launches.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to ensure tooling solutions align with manufacturing objectives.
• Oversee the scheduling of annual fixture reviews, maintenance and repair

Business Support

• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades, and installations
• Report on KPIs and align maintenance with production goals

Qualifications

• 3+ years industrial maintenance experience
• 3+ years leadership experience (multi-site preferred)
• Strong knowledge of industrial systems and automation with a working knowledge of tooling and fixture operations.
• Experience leading cross-functional multi-site technical teams in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience with CMMS and predictive maintenance tools
• Ability to travel between sites

VIRNIG MANUFACTURING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, disability, military service, veteran status, gender identity, status with regard to public assistance, or any other class protected by law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with known disabilities, unless doing so would cause undue hardship for the Company.