Senior Manager, Protective Coatings and Maintenance
manufacturing › Maintenance · M4 — M4 — Director · Management
Senior manager overseeing multiple coatings and maintenance teams, budgets, and supplier relationships across a plant or region.
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What this role is
Senior manager overseeing multiple coatings and maintenance teams, budgets, and supplier relationships across a plant or region. At the Director (M4) level, the role owns a function or department, strategic priorities and cross-functional alignment, and drives function-level results. Leads managers; sets direction for the function.
What this level does
- Oversee maintenance across multiple departments, lines, or a large site, aligning maintenance strategy with plant production and business objectives where downtime could jeopardize output commitments
- Set the strategic direction for preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs and standardize CMMS practices and reliability methods across sections
- Engage senior plant and operations leaders on maintenance strategy, capital budgets, and equipment reliability roadmaps
- Direct the introduction of predictive/condition-based maintenance capabilities (vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis) and continuous-improvement/Lean initiatives across the maintenance organization
- Manage multiple maintenance managers and supervisors, owning the consolidated maintenance budget and workforce-capability plan
- Knowledge applied
- Sets maintenance strategy for multiple sections aligned to plant/business objectives; standardizes reliability methods.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves strategic issues where downtime could jeopardize production; introduces predictive/condition-based and Lean programs.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Engages senior plant and operations leaders on functional strategy and capital budgets; manages multiple managers.
- Typical experience
- 8–10+ years with complex, multi-team maintenance-organization leadership.
Skills at this level
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Program Management
- — Plans and directs preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance schedules for production equipment, using vibration analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasonic testing, and oil analysis to anticipate and prevent equipment failures.
- Equipment Troubleshooting & Repair Oversight
- — Directs the diagnosis and repair of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic faults on conveyor systems, pumps, motors, HVAC, and production machines, prioritizing interventions to minimize production downtime.
- Multi-Disciplinary Technical Knowledge
- — Applies solid working knowledge of mechanics, electricity, hydraulics, pneumatics, and control systems to evaluate maintenance work and guide technicians across all trades.
- CMMS / Spare-Parts Inventory Management
- — Manages maintenance work orders and spare-parts and indirect-materials inventory through a computerized maintenance management system, setting reorder points and driving backlog reduction and data accuracy.
- System-Level Reliability Ownership
- — Owns the reliability of equipment systems rather than individual machines — analyzing failure patterns across the asset population and directing interventions that improve overall uptime.
- Cross-Functional Equipment Issue Resolution
- — Coordinates with Facilities, Quality, and Manufacturing Engineering on problem identification, troubleshooting, and resolution of production equipment issues.
- Equipment Engineering & Capital Evaluation
- — Contributes to equipment engineering design evaluations and capital-replacement decisions, assessing aging or unreliable assets for repair-versus-replace and total-cost-of-ownership.
- Team Coaching & Technician Development
- — Trains and mentors junior technicians and line employees in maintenance procedures and safe operation of equipment, building qualified crews.
- Predictive-Maintenance Systems & IoT Analytics
- — Designs predictive/condition-based maintenance systems by analyzing datasets from IoT-instrumented equipment and applying machine learning to anticipate equipment failures.
- Continuous Improvement / Lean Maintenance
- — Applies Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement techniques to maintenance workflows to reduce downtime, waste, and cost while sustaining quality.
- Maintenance Safety & Compliance
- — Enforces routine safety checks and safe-operation standards during maintenance work, maintaining clean work areas and compliance-oriented maintenance reporting.
- Maintenance Strategy & Policy Formulation
- — Sets maintenance and reliability strategy and formulates policies that standardize methods and drive innovation and technology integration across the maintenance organization.
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