Manager Maintenance

Caterpillar Inc.; Mapleton (IL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Mapleton, IL is seeking a maintenance leader to drive safety, reliability, and continuous improvement in the Mapleton Foundry. You will lead a multi-skilled team, coordinate maintenance work, and ensure alignment with production goals while managing budgets and resources.

This role emphasizes TPM, safety, and cost management. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning to prioritize maintenance and outages, while coaching staff to build technical

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams in a foundry.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Foundry maintenance and reliability expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities across the foundry, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment and facilities.
• Develop, prioritize, and coordinate work plans for maintenance employees and contractors, ensuring maintenance activities are executed effectively and aligned with production requirements.
• Review, audit, and validate maintenance work performed by technicians and contractors to ensure quality workmanship, adherence to standards, and effective resolution of equipment issues.
• Drive daily maintenance execution by providing direction, coaching, and oversight to off-shift Section Managers, ensuring leadership expectations, priorities, and business objectives are consistently communicated and achieved across all shifts.
• Monitor and improve key maintenance performance metrics, including safety performance, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, equipment availability, asset reliability, MTBF, MTTR, backlog management, and departmental goals.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities for equipment failures, implementing corrective actions that improve reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all company, regulatory, and environmental requirements, including LOTO, confined space, hot work, and contractor safety procedures.
• Manage maintenance resources, including labor, tools, equipment, contractor services, spare parts, and inventory, while ensuring resources are available to support operational needs.
• Oversee maintenance budgeting and cost management activities, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spending, and reduce maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability.
• Ensure completion of required employee training, certifications, compliance requirements, and workforce development activities, while coaching and developing team members to enhance technical capability and leadership skills.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning teams to establish maintenance priorities, coordinate planned outages, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

MS Office

Foundry experience

Machining

Reliability Eng

Mechanical systems

Hydraulics

Electrical systems

PLCs/Automation

Melting furnaces

Dust collection

Conveyors

Mold handling

Shot blasting

Cranes

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Career Area

Manufacturing

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it is groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With 100 years of legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce, Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customers’ needs. Join us.

The Mapleton Foundry is one of the largest in the United States and home to the largest core making machine in the world! Working at the foundry is hard work that demands focus and safety, quality, and commitment to helping our customers build a better world. With over 800 employees at the foundry, we are looking for someone who can support process development projects for the continuous improvement of safety, quality, velocity and cost of manufacturing.

Role Definition

This position is responsible for providing leadership to a multi-skilled maintenance workforce, driving a culture of safety, accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement while ensuring maintenance execution supports foundry production objectives and business performance goals.

What You Will Do

• Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities across the foundry, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment and facilities.
• Develop, prioritize, and coordinate work plans for maintenance employees and contractors, ensuring maintenance activities are executed effectively and aligned with production requirements.
• Review, audit, and validate maintenance work performed by technicians and contractors to ensure quality workmanship, adherence to standards, and effective resolution of equipment issues.
• Drive daily maintenance execution by providing direction, coaching, and oversight to off-shift Section Managers, ensuring leadership expectations, priorities, and business objectives are consistently communicated and achieved across all shifts.
• Monitor and improve key maintenance performance metrics, including safety performance, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, equipment availability, asset reliability, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), backlog management, and departmental goals.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities for equipment failures, implementing corrective actions that improve reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all company, regulatory, and environmental requirements, including lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined space, hot work, and contractor safety procedures.
• Manage maintenance resources, including labor, tools, equipment, contractor services, spare parts, and inventory, while ensuring resources are available to support operational needs.
• Oversee maintenance budgeting and cost management activities, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spending, and reduce maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability.
• Ensure completion of required employee training, certifications, compliance requirements, and workforce development activities, while coaching and developing team members to enhance technical capability and leadership skills.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning teams to establish maintenance priorities, coordinate planned outages, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

What You Will Have

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Working knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Effective Communications: Working knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Performance Management: Working knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to develop and improve individual, team, and organizational performance.

Planning and Organizing: Working knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

Problem Solving: Working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Working knowledge of total productive maintenance principles, methods, and processes; ability to maximize machinery effectiveness through active involvement of all supporting departments.

Top Candidates Will Possess

• Previous experience in maintenance and leadership
• MS Office Suite
• Foundry management experience
• Machining experience
• Reliability Engineering experience
• Background with mechanical systems, hydraulics, electrical systems, PLC’s and automations, melting furnaces, dust collection systems, conveyors, mold handling equipment, shot blast systems, and cranes.

Additional Information

• This is a 1st shift position in Mapleton, IL
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Final Details

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Summary Pay Range

$97,530.00 - $146,290.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates

October 23, 2026 - November 5, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.