Manager, Metals Maintenance

Job-ID: 17674; Location(s): McPherson KS 

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of the Metals Maintenance department, including supervising, training, and scheduling maintenance personnel. Developed and implemented departmental policies, procedures, and preventive maintenance programs to improve efficiency, equipment reliability, and safety. Managed departmental budgets, controlled costs, and allocated resources to support operational goals. Coordinated maintenance activities to minimize downtime, ensure timely repairs, and maintain regulatory compliance. Collaborated with vendors, contractors, and cross-functional departments to support efficient operations, ensure timely maintenance services, and consistently deliver exceptional customer service and operational excellence

What You'll Do:

Management

• Manage, select, train, motivate, review, coach, develop and retain a high-performance team.
• Provides leadership, direction, and oversight for multiple highly technical teams within the Metals organization, driving collaboration, operational excellence, and the successful delivery of business objectives.
• Identifies key members of the team and develops succession plans accordingly. 
• Works with minimal supervision and is responsible for making an established range of decisions, escalating to the director when necessary.
• Conduct timely and accurate employee performance evaluation; address performance issues as needed.
• Analyzes, defines, prioritizes, communicates, and manages workload for staff based on business priorities, ROI and schedule.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures and intra-departmental communications; maintain managerial relationships by encouraging and providing a timely, two-way flow of information between subordinates, management, and user groups.
• Participate in operational meetings as required or necessary.
• Manages all aspects of team performance, including execution, resource optimization, talent development, and continuous process improvement to support organizational success.
• Motivate staff to improve quality of work performed and provide training and development opportunities as needed.
• Ensure compliance in Health, Environment & Safety/Quality in all areas of operations; ensure company policies and guidelines, as set forth in the Corporate Human Resources Policy manual are followed; maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Assist with the development of the departmental budget; approve and manage expenditure; forecast short and long-range budgeting needs; ensure expenditure is aligned with approved budget.
• Develop organizational strategies, analysis, and recommendations for corrective maintenance department; ensure objectives align with organizational objectives; continually evaluate existing processes to determine areas of improvement.
• Develop processes for follow-up; ensure team provides excellent customer service.
• Initiates, guides, manages and implements continuous improvement initiatives within all areas of responsibility using tools like Lean Six Sigma.

Budget

• Build and manage the annual budget for the department including headcount.
• Assists with purchasing necessary equipment, licenses, and services for department.

Equipment Maintenance

• Develops, implements, and manages strategic oversight of comprehensive preventive and corrective maintenance programs for high-complexity metals production equipment. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering, operations, reliability, and maintenance teams to establish standardized maintenance strategies, optimize equipment reliability and lifecycle performance, minimize downtime, and drive continuous improvement in asset management and operational excellence.
• Helps develop predictive maintenance strategies while aligned with the reliability team.
• Meets with cross-functional teams to identify issues, problems or concerns; gather feedback; determine or recommend appropriate corrective action; follow up to ensure customer quality and satisfaction.
• Manages all aspects of repair activities, projects, high-complexity equipment maintenance, work orders, daily operations, and inventory requirements. Ensures work is completed safely, efficiently, and within established specifications while maintaining accurate documentation, inspection records, and compliance with operational standards.
• Manages work order process for all corrective and preventative maintenance; recommend improvements and gather required data for metric development.
• Provides project management, analysis, and consulting using industry best practices and methodologies.  
• Oversee project management for complex metals equipment initiatives, coordinating domestic and overseas contractors, vendors, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution, timeline adherence, and alignment with operational objectives.
• Reviews manufacturers’ service manuals, usage schedules and records of maintenance; develops system and checklist metrics to determine optimum frequency of preventive maintenance of all equipment, machinery and tools; maintain equipment manuals, equipment warranties and tool inventories.
• Studies production and operation schedules and works with manufacturing teams to determine when planned maintenance would least interfere with operations.
• Plans and coordinates parts and equipment to quickly and efficiently perform preventive maintenance with the least disruption to manufacturing.

Research and Reporting

• Develops and implements a proactive maintenance program by compiling and evaluating maintenance operations data related to process operations and equipment
• Determines operating efficiency and effectiveness and makes recommendations regarding continued maintenance versus replacement.
• Help develop OEE measurements with the manufacturing team and develop strategy for improvement.
• Develops, manages, and communicates recurring project performance metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and workload reporting, while overseeing the collection, analysis, and reporting of maintenance metrics to monitor Metals equipment performance, optimize operational efficiency, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Defines and leads the development of reporting solutions, including informational reports and interactive dashboards that support strategic decision-making, operational visibility, and performance monitoring.

Cost Tracking

• Manages costs of personnel, parts, and supplies to be used during scheduled maintenance; maintains tracking system of time and costs involved with repairing equipment; submits purchase requests to Purchasing; obtains proper coding and documentation; follows-up to ensure schedule is maintained and up to date.
• Manages cost tracking in SAP for maintenance and coordinates these activities with manufacturing to make sure costing is accurate for work performed.
• Maintains records of planned and completed maintenance; inputs maintenance and machine shop’s time in excel spreadsheet by job and cost center to track costs; updates maintenance metrics based on priority of each job.
• Coordinates with Purchasing any necessary items required to perform maintenance on equipment, machinery, and tools.

Other

• Perform additional duties as needed.
• Attend meetings as required or assigned
• Will be required to attend occasional, local off-site meetings and, as needed, operate a motor vehicle for business purposes. Reasonable accommodations will be considered.
• Will be required to travel up to 20% of the time.
• May be required to work after hours and on weekends

Safety

• Address Safety at Group/Staff Meetings – Managers should ensure that each time a group meeting is held to discuss work and/or production a safety topic should be mentioned and/or emphasized.  Managers will consistently put Safety in the forefront of daily tasks and make it a part of the culture.
• Weekly Inspections – Managers will inspect their areas at least once per week to identify safety concerns and report any hazards to maintenance for repair or if possible, correct themselves.
• Department MSDS – The Manager should remain aware when a product changes or new products are being used in their department.  When a product changes or a new product is introduced, the manager should ensure that the department receives an MSDS for that product so that it can be updated in their department’s MSDS binder.
• Safety Initiatives – Managers shall present to the Safety Manager, once per quarter, a recommendation to improve safety and/or get employees to take a more proactive role in their own safety or within the department.
• Documentation – Managers shall keep detailed records demonstrating their fulfillment of their safety responsibilities.  Their director will examine these records as part of their annual performance appraisal.
• Safety Attitude – Managers shall encourage and maintain a Safety Culture within the company through leading by example and ensuring their staff has the tools and knowledge necessary to work safely.

What We're Looking For:

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to lead, manage, delegate, improve and motivate high performance teams in support of business enablement
• Possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to develop these skills in others within their group
• Ability to lead and work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to develop and articulately present ideas in a user-friendly language
• Demonstrated proficiency as a self-motivated professional
• Demonstrated ability to understand and adhere to proper change control policies and practices
• Significant ability to discuss, understand and recommend business processes and be able to map the as-is and to-be process with process modeling tools
• Experience, proficiency and desire to lead and manage improvements and projects
• Knowledge of computer software programs including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, and Helpdesk ticketing systems as well as backend solutions (server platforms, virtual platforms, network and routing solutions, cloud-based solutions, etc...)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Effective interpersonal skills and relationship-building skills
• Good decision making and time management skills
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot process and systems
• Ability to work under the pressure of and meet deadlines
• Ability to read and understand technical manuals and procedural documentation
• Effectively operate within a multi-tasking environment
• Ability to use discretion in the handling of confidential data
• Ability to translate objectives and targets into effective measures of operational performance
• Ability to perform with superior service, reflecting a positive company image while sustaining a positive attitude with those you interact with; always going above and beyond to help others out, regardless of their position or department
• Ability to adhere to the highest standards of quality and professionalism while continuously performing at a very high level

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or related filed, preferred AND
• 5-7 years of Management experience preferred OR 7-10 years of Maintenance experience, with manager responsibilities

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Wondering if you should apply? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Viega, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box in the qualifications section, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have ina the future.

Total Rewards Package:

Compensation

• Base: $114,000 - $149,000 annually, based on specific compensable factors including, but not limited to education, work experience, and geographic market.
• Bonus: This role will be eligible for participation in a discretionary annual bonus program, pursuant to which an employee may be awarded a percentage of their salary based on the company’s performance and their own individual performance.

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, Telehealth, Dental, and Vision coverage, including infertility treatment, weight management, and physical therapy.
• Wellness Program, including wellbeing platform, wellness challenges, WorkLife Navigator services, EAP, and mental health resources.
• HSA with company contribution.
• Health Care and Dependent Care FSA options.

Financial Security

• 401(k) plan with up to 7.5% total employer contribution, including an automatic 3% company contribution plus a competitive tiered match.
• Employer-paid Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Employer-paid Life and AD&D insurance, with additional voluntary coverage options.
• Voluntary benefits including legal, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.

Growth & Time Off

• Up to $10,000 annually in tuition reimbursement, with an option for fully funded degree programs through Colorado Technical University.
• 22 days PTO.
• 9 company holidays plus 2 paid Volunteer Days.
• Professional development opportunities designed to help employees continue building their careers. 

Your contact person:

Christopher Welsh  -  christopher.welsh@viega.us - +1 620 798-9019 

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