Maintenance Manager

ABOUT ENGINEERED PRODUCTS

At Engineered Products, our mission is to maximize space efficiency and redefine material handling and storage solutions. As a privately held company with more than 70 years of industry experience, we have earned the trust of businesses nationwide by delivering customized storage solutions tailored to their unique needs.

We foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and empowerment where every employee contributes to our success by building strong relationships, approaching challenges with optimism, and embracing continuous learning and collaboration.

Position: Maintenance Manager

Reports To: Plant Manager

Department: Maintenance

Location: Easley, South Carolina

Direct Reports: Maintenance technicians, Controls Technician, and Tooling Department personnel

Position Summary

The Maintenance Manager is the single, hands-on leader accountable for plant maintenance, equipment reliability, and the Tooling Department at Engineered Products. The position directly supervises maintenance, controls, and tooling personnel; there is no separate Maintenance Supervisor. Working in partnership with the Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Continuous Improvement, this role ensures that machines and production tooling safely and reliably meet established manufacturing process requirements.

The Tooling Department provides day-to-day production support for all punch/stamping and structural steel roll-form tooling. The Maintenance Manager owns tooling readiness, inspection, preventive service, adjustment, repair, refurbishment, and toolroom resources. Manufacturing Engineering retains technical ownership of manufacturing processes, tooling design requirements, engineered modifications, and process validation.

Primary Responsibilities

Maintenance & Tooling Department Leadership

• Lead, schedule, coach, and evaluate maintenance technicians, controls resources, and tooling personnel; establish work priorities, coverage, skills development, and accountability.
• Own daily maintenance and tooling execution, balancing emergency breakdowns, planned production support, scheduled preventive maintenance, and toolroom workload.
• Coordinate production windows, breakdown response, shift handoffs, vendors, tooling support, and planned shutdowns with Production; align long-term equipment and process improvements with the Senior Manufacturing Engineer.
• Manage department spending, outside services, critical spare parts, tooling consumables, and procurement recommendations within approved authority.
• Maintain a visible work backlog, clear escalation paths, and timely communication of equipment and tooling constraints.

Hands-On Plant Maintenance & Equipment Reliability

• Lead diagnosis and repair of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic failures on roll formers, stamping/punch presses, press brakes, lasers, weld cells, conveyors, finishing equipment, and plant utilities.
• Direct PLC/HMI/VFD, safety circuit, sensor, encoder, and servo troubleshooting; partner with the Controls Technician for programming changes and advanced automation work.
• Oversee precision mechanical work, alignments, drives, bearings, lubrication systems, fabrication, and machine repair; provide hands-on technical support when needed.
• Own the Tractian CMMS: asset records, work orders, PM scheduling, failure history, backlog, labor/cost capture, and closure quality.
• Own investigations and corrective actions for equipment- or tooling-condition failures, using downtime trends, repeat-failure analysis, 5-Why/RCA, MTTR and MTBF. Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering when root cause is related to process parameters, setup design, or tooling design.

Punch, Stamping & Roll-Form Tooling Management

• Lead the Tooling Department responsible for production support of all punch/stamping dies and roll-form tooling, including tool condition, readiness, repairs, adjustments, and preventive care.
• Direct tooling personnel in diagnosing and correcting worn or damaged punches/dies, stripping problems, alignment, roll tracking, roll-set condition, and other tooling-related mechanical problems. Partner with Manufacturing Engineering on profile variation, dimensional issues, or operating-parameter changes.
• Provide urgent in-process tooling repair and tool-change support while coordinating with Production. Production owns setup execution; Manufacturing Engineering owns setup methodology, standard work, and SMED/changeover improvements.
• Establish tool identification, condition/status tracking, inspection criteria, maintenance records, storage, preservation, and scheduled servicing for punches, dies, roll sets, and related components.
• Manage the repair/replacement pipeline for worn or damaged tooling, including outside grinding, machining, heat treating, and specialist tooling vendors as needed.
• Implement approved tooling repairs, refurbishment and modifications in partnership with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality. Manufacturing Engineering owns new tooling design specifications, process parameters, engineering changes, and process-capability validation; Maintenance & Tooling owns execution, condition, serviceability, and production readiness.
• Track tooling-related downtime, recurring quality issues, maintenance cost, and tool life to identify corrective actions and replacement needs.

Operating Interfaces & Decision Rights

• Maintenance Manager: accountable for machine health, repair priorities, maintenance safety, scheduled PMs, spare parts, toolroom staffing, tooling condition, and repair/refurbishment execution.
• Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Continuous Improvement: accountable for process specifications and settings, standard work, roll-form/punch process capability, SMED/changeover methods, tooling design requirements and approved engineering changes.
• Production: accountable for operating equipment, routine line setup and changeover execution, production scheduling, and timely defect/breakdown reporting.
• Quality: accountable for product acceptance criteria, inspection disposition, and quality-system requirements; partners with Engineering and Maintenance to verify corrective-action effectiveness.
• For mixed process/equipment problems, jointly triage the issue; assign one corrective-action owner, record handoffs, and require Engineering approval before changing controlled process parameters or tooling designs.

Safety, Projects & Cross-Functional Support

• Own execution of maintenance safety practices including lockout/tagout, electrical safe work, guarding, hot work, and contractor controls; support OSHA and NFPA 70E requirements.
• Support capital equipment installation, relocation, machine guarding, and commissioning. Manufacturing Engineering leads production requirements, process qualification and validation; the Maintenance Manager leads maintainability reviews, installation support, maintenance documentation, training, and spare-parts readiness.
• Partner with Production, Quality, and the Senior Manufacturing Engineer when defects involve machinery or tooling. Confirm mechanical/tooling condition is restored, while Engineering approves changes to process settings, tooling design, or validated manufacturing methods.
• Maintain an organized, safe maintenance shop and toolroom with effective 5S and parts/tool storage practices.

Equipment & Process Coverage

Roll-form lines and roll sets; punch and stamping presses, dies, and punches; CNC press brakes; laser cutting systems; welding/fabrication cells; wet paint and powder systems; ovens, pretreatment, conveyors; compressors, chillers, dust/fume collection, hydraulics, pneumatics, and material handling; PLC/HMI, drives, motors, and industrial electrical controls.

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of progressive industrial maintenance experience, preferably in metal fabrication, stamping, or roll forming; prior responsibility for directing personnel and coordinating plant maintenance work.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a small hands-on technical team while personally resolving complex plant equipment problems.
• Strong mechanical and industrial electrical troubleshooting, including 480V three-phase systems, schematics, VFDs, hydraulics, pneumatics, and safe work practices.
• Practical understanding of punch/stamping dies and roll-form tooling, including tool wear, alignment, preventive service, and production troubleshooting; ability to direct experienced tooling personnel.
• Experience using a CMMS for preventive maintenance, work management, and reliability improvement; disciplined documentation and prioritization.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, and external tooling/equipment suppliers.

Preferred

• Toolroom or tool-and-die leadership in a metalworking manufacturing operation.
• PLC/HMI troubleshooting familiarity (Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens or similar); advanced PLC programming is not required if supported by a Controls Technician.
• Experience with laser cutting welding automation, press brakes, paint/powder equipment, and plant utilities.
• Technical diploma, associate degree, or equivalent extensive industrial maintenance/tooling experience; familiarity with TPM, 5S, RCA, and equipment capital projects.

Measures of Success - First 12 Months

• Safety: documented LOTO/electrical-safe-work compliance, timely hazard closure, and effective near-miss follow-through.
• Reliability: reduced maintenance-caused downtime and repeat equipment/tooling failures against baseline; improved MTTR/MTBF for critical assets. Plant OEE is a shared measure, not an independently owned maintenance target.
• Preventive maintenance: at least 95% on-time completion of scheduled PMs, with periodic effectiveness review rather than completion alone.
• Tooling: improved readiness and tool repair turnaround; lower downtime caused by punch/die and roll-form tooling condition; complete service/condition histories and fewer repeat tooling failures.
• Execution: accurate Tractian work orders, controlled backlog, improved repair planning, critical-parts availability, and measurable employee skills development.
• Cost and quality: reduced avoidable emergency purchases and repeat repairs; documented post-repair checks confirming machinery and tooling condition, with Production/Engineering/Quality verification of product conformance as applicable.

Physical & Work Environment

Regular shop-floor work, standing/walking, bending and reaching; occasional climbing and handling of items up to 50 lb. consistent with safe lifting procedures. Work around manufacturing machinery, high-voltage equipment, industrial noise, and hot/cold conditions. PPE required; overtime or off-hours response may be needed for critical production issues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Engineered Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.