Senior Manager, Facilities Maintenance and Planning

Assistance Technique Internationale; Cudahy (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Assistance Technique Internationale is seeking a Senior Manager, Facilities Maintenance and Planning to lead maintenance, planning, scheduling, and outage coordination across the facility. This role ensures safety, reliability, and operational effectiveness by directing maintenance leaders, schedulers, planners, craft resources, and contractors.

Responsibilities include establishing a planning and scheduling operating model, protecting the frozen schedule, and driving a disciplined,

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in maintenance/operations or related industrial role.
• Experience in heavy manufacturing or similar equipment-intensive operations.
• Experience with CMMS systems and backlog/work-order management.
• Experience leading in a union-represented environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily/weekly coordination of maintenance priorities, equipment availability, safety work, and production needs.
• Oversee planning & scheduling operating model, backlog management, and outage readiness.
• Own maintenance performance measures: schedule compliance, backlog health, and safety work orders.
• Manage facility infrastructure, buildings, grounds, utilities, and safety-related work for safe, reliable operation.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Planning & scheduling

CMMS experience

Outage coordination

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Facilities Maintenance and Planning is responsible for leading facilities maintenance, maintenance planning and scheduling, plant outage coordination, and safety-related maintenance execution across assigned areas of the facility. This role provides leadership for facility infrastructure, buildings and grounds, safety-related work orders, corrective actions, and improvement initiatives to ensure the plant is maintained in a safe, reliable, and operationally effective condition.

This role is responsible for leading the facilities maintenance and planning organization, including maintenance leaders, schedulers, planners, craft resources, and contractor support, to ensure facility infrastructure, buildings and grounds, safety-related work, plant outages, and maintenance schedules are managed through a disciplined, reliable, and business-aligned operating model.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily and weekly coordination of maintenance priorities, equipment availability, facility needs, safety work, and production requirements across assigned areas.
• Lead through maintenance leaders, schedulers, planners, and craft resources to align priorities, establish accountability, and ensure consistent execution of the facilities maintenance and planning process.
• Establish the planning and scheduling operating model, including work identification, prioritization, planning standards, schedule governance, outage readiness, and backlog management expectations.
• Own maintenance planning and facilities performance measures, including schedule compliance, backlog health, safety work order completion, outage readiness, emergency work reduction, contractor performance, and planning effectiveness.
• Own schedule discipline by protecting the frozen maintenance schedule and ensuring changes are properly reviewed, justified, approved, and escalated when required.
• Govern break-in work, priority changes, and schedule exceptions to ensure decisions are made at the appropriate leadership level and are based on safety, asset risk, production impact, and business need.
• Lead the management of facility infrastructure, buildings, grounds, utilities, and site support systems to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation.
• Prioritize building and grounds work based on employee safety, operational continuity, asset condition, production impact, and long-term facility reliability.
• Promote a proactive facilities maintenance culture focused on hazard elimination, planned work, preventive maintenance, housekeeping, and infrastructure reliability.
• Hold teams accountable for addressing required prerequisites before scheduled work begins, including labor, parts, tooling, permits, equipment access, facility access, contractor readiness, LOTO requirements, EHS requirements, and production coordination.
• Manage the facilities maintenance backlog, ensuring building, grounds, infrastructure, and safety-related work orders are properly reviewed, prioritized, and completed.
• Monitor schedule compliance and lead review of systemic causes of schedule disruption, including planning gaps, resource constraints, parts delays, equipment availability issues, contractor delays, and facility access limitations.
• Lead planning and of facility outages, utility shutdowns, infrastructure repairs, and contractor-supported work.

Proven to Perform.

From the edges of space to the bottoms of ocean, our materials are proven to perform -- and so is our team. We're hiring high performers as proven as our products. Join us.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance, operations, or a related industrial manufacturing role preferred.
• Experience in heavy manufacturing, forging, metals, foundry, steel, aerospace manufacturing, or similar equipment-intensive operations strongly preferred.
• Experience with CMMS systems and maintenance backlog/work-order management.
• Experience leading in a union-represented manufacturing environment preferred.

Essential Skills

• Ability to understand production requirements and translate them into maintenance priorities and equipment availability requirements.
• Working knowledge of industrial maintenance practices, preventive/predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, and work management systems.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Ability to prioritize work based on safety, equipment risk, facility risk, production impact, asset condition, resource availability, and business-critical needs.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced manufacturing environment.

We thrive when the expectations are great, and the barriers are high. We're solving the world's most difficult challenges through materials science. Our advanced, integrated process technologies and proven performers give us a tremendous competitive advantage. When customers systems need to fly higher, dig deeper, stand stronger, and last longer -- anywhere on, above or below the earth -- ATI is proven to perform.

*It is ATI's policy to not provide immigration sponsorship for any of the company's positions.

ATI and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.