Maintenance Manager

Location: Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area

This position will support the launch of a new manufacturing facility in the southwest Birmingham metropolitan area.

• Manage the plant Maintenance Department, including maintenance supervisors, skilled trades, tooling, equipment, and facility activities, ensuring effective support across all operating shifts.
• Provide leadership, coaching, support, and performance feedback to maintenance supervisors and skilled trades employees, establishing clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to maximize equipment reliability, minimize unplanned downtime, and support uninterrupted JIT/JIS operations.
• Monitor equipment downtime and recurring failures, leading root-cause analysis and corrective actions to improve safety, quality, equipment reliability, productivity, and throughput.
• Implement continuous improvement and cost-saving initiatives utilizing Lean principles, while establishing a common, disciplined Lean maintenance organization.
• Support new program and equipment launches, including installation, commissioning, maintenance planning, production readiness, ramp-up, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Partner with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Controls Engineering, Quality, and other functions to resolve equipment issues and improve process capability and overall plant performance.
• Identify, implement, and institutionalize maintenance best practices, lessons learned, standardized work, and equipment reliability improvements.
• Manage and control department attendance, labor and maintenance costs, spare-parts inventories, contractors, tooling, capital projects, and the maintenance budget.
• Maintain a safe, organized, and professional work environment, ensuring adherence to 5S standards, applicable quality requirements, and all Inteva policies and procedures.