Plant Maintenance & Reliability Leader

Grede; Saint Cloud (MN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs and Worksite Health

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Life Insurance

401(K) Match

Paid vacation and holidays

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

PPE allowances

Job summary

Grede is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead plant maintenance, reliability, and asset management. You will develop strategies to maximize equipment uptime, reduce downtime, and protect production, quality, and financial goals.

The role commands a salary of $130,000–$150,000 annually based on experience. Responsibilities include driving a proactive maintenance culture, implementing reliability-centered maintenance programs, and leading capital planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of industrial maintenance experience, including progressive leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated success leading maintenance operations in a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, CMMS systems, capital project management, budgeting, and maintenance best practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the plant's primary owner of equipment reliability, asset performance, and maintenance excellence.
• Develop and execute a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy focused on maximizing equipment uptime, reducing production risk, and supporting business growth objectives.
• Establish reliability-centered maintenance programs that improve asset availability, extend equipment life, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Lead the development and execution of strategies that achieve sustainable reductions in unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures.
• Drive a proactive maintenance culture centered on prevention, condition monitoring, predictive technologies, and disciplined work management processes.
• Establish and manage key reliability metrics including equipment uptime, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule compliance, and maintenance cost performance.
• Utilize maintenance and production data to identify reliability losses, prioritize improvement opportunities, and allocate resources to the highest business-impact areas.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain leaders to ensure equipment reliability supports customer commitments and production requirements.
• Lead plant-wide asset risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies for critical equipment and systems.
• Ensure maintenance planning and scheduling processes prioritize work that protects production capacity and minimizes operational disruption.
• Develop long-range capital plans and asset replacement strategies based on risk, reliability trends, lifecycle costs, and business requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that increase throughput, improve operational stability, and enhance overall manufacturing performance.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Communication

Reliability-centered maintenance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/related field

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Grede is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead plant maintenance, reliability, and asset management. You will develop strategies to maximize equipment uptime, reduce downtime, and protect production, quality, and financial goals.

The role commands a salary of $130,000–$150,000 annually based on experience. Responsibilities include driving a proactive maintenance culture, implementing reliability-centered maintenance programs, and leading capital planning.