Manufacturing Maintenance Manager

Advanced Technology Services; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Technology Services is seeking a senior leader to advance safety, culture, and operational performance across our sites in the United States.

You will drive strategic initiatives, build leadership capability, and partner with customers to align expectations and improve outcomes. The role emphasizes on-site leadership, transparency, and continuous improvement through structured training and performance reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience leading safety programs and wellness initiatives.
• Strong communication and change leadership skills.
• Ability to translate company strategy into site-level actions.

Responsibilities

• Takes responsibility for employee safety and wellness by deploying the ATS safety program and ensuring effective completion of safety training, observations, and incident investigations.
• Implements and actively supports all Beyond Zero initiatives.
• Enables the growth of a customer safety culture by fostering a safety partnership and sharing best practices.
• Motivates employees by communicating a clear vision that enables understanding of site-level and company-wide objectives.
• Acts as a change agent, leading strategic initiatives through action planning and effective implementation.
• Understanding and articulating ATS and customer strategies to link team responsibilities to strategic outcomes.
• Builds positive relationships with ATS employees, customers, and peers through open communication and leadership competencies.
• Sets a positive, influential standard and creates a constructive climate for the team.
• Influences with transparency and participative decision making.
• Establishes onboarding and ongoing coaching to recognize contributions and maintain engagement.
• Adheres to policies and ensures staff understand the rationale behind policies.

Job description

Founded in 1985, ATS is a company with a presence in the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom. We are professionals in Industrial Maintenance and we make factories run better.

To Live and Lead Safety

· Takes responsibility for employee safety and wellness by deploying the ATS safety program and ensuring effective completion of safety training, observations, and incident investigations.

· Implements and actively supports all Beyond Zero initiatives

· Enables the growth of a customer safety culture by a fostering a safety partnership and sharing best practices

To Inspire and Provide Clarity on Vision and Strategy

· Motivates employees by communicating a clear vision that enables all employees to understand the rationale for, and the benefit of, both site-level and company-wide objectives

· Acts as an effective change agent, leading the implementation of strategic initiatives through positive team communications, appropriate action planning, and successful implementation activities

· Understands and appropriately articulates both ATS and customer strategies, providing the team with line of sight between team responsibilities and strategic outcomes

To Own Our ATS Culture

· Builds positive relationships with ATS employees, customers, and peers through open communication and role-modeling the ATS leadership core competencies of honesty and respect

· Sets a positive, influential standard for others and creates a constructive climate for their team

· Influences with transparency and use participative methods to ensure that decisions are understood and accepted

· Establishes a positive work environment through managing and personalizing onboarding; engaging in ongoing one-on-one communications; and recognizing individual contributions and achievements on a timely basis

· Adheres to policies and procedures and ensures that staff understands the rationale behind policies and processes

To Support Our Employees’ Learning and Growth

· Leads and builds team capabilities by working with individuals on performance improvement, career planning, training, and skills development.

· Develops, communicates, and executes a Skills Matrix and Technician Training Plan

· Builds and maintains a succession plan for key positions (i.e., Supervisors, Supply Chain, P/S, RE)

To Ensure and Drive our Business Results

· Leads and ensures the Operating System is understood, reinforced, and embedded

· Develops and executes a site-specific maintenance plan per ATS standards

· Manages financial performance of the site (revenue, expenses, and profit) to achieve set objectives

· Develops and maintains effective relationships with all ATS business units, fully utilizing their services and ensuring cross-functional alignment

· Collaborates with and builds customer relationships to ensure priority alignment and proactively anticipates customer needs as the primary on site contact

· Ensures alignment of customer expectations and ATS site goals through management of site-specific contracts

· Communicates with the customer through daily, weekly, and monthly meetings and conducts a regular review of the performance metrics with the customer

· Drives a continuous improvement methodology and promotes cost savings

· Analyzes and reports on key performance indicators, completing root cause analyses and developing and executing action items while removing barriers and addressing issues

· Collaborates with sales and operations leadership to increase the scope of services

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs),