{"id":3878238,"url":"https://alion.io/job/engineered-products-maintenance-manager","title":"Maintenance Manager","company":{"id":3869136,"name":"Engineered Products","domain":"engprod.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/engprod","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Paycor","truth_index":null},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Easley, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T17:21:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T10:53:03Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"ABOUT ENGINEERED PRODUCTS\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nPosition: Maintenance Manager\nReports To: Plant Manager\nDepartment: Maintenance\nLocation: Easley, South Carolina\nDirect Reports: Maintenance technicians, Controls Technician, and Tooling Department personnel\nPosition Summary\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nMaintenance & Tooling Department Leadership\nLead, schedule, coach, and evaluate maintenance technicians, controls resources, and tooling personnel; establish work priorities, coverage, skills development, and accountability.\nOwn daily maintenance and tooling execution, balancing emergency breakdowns, planned production support, scheduled preventive maintenance, and toolroom workload.\nCoordinate 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.\nManage department spending, outside services, critical spare parts, tooling consumables, and procurement recommendations within approved authority.\nMaintain a visible work backlog, clear escalation paths, and timely communication of equipment and tooling constraints.\nHands-On Plant Maintenance & Equipment Reliability\nLead 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.\nDirect PLC/HMI/VFD, safety circuit, sensor, encoder, and servo troubleshooting; partner with the Controls Technician for programming changes and advanced automation work.\nOversee precision mechanical work, alignments, drives, bearings, lubrication systems, fabrication, and machine repair; provide hands-on technical support when needed.\nOwn the Tractian CMMS: asset records, work orders, PM scheduling, failure history, backlog, labor/cost capture, and closure quality.\nOwn 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.\nPunch, Stamping & Roll-Form Tooling Management\nLead 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.\nDirect 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.\nProvide 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.\nEstablish tool identification, condition/status tracking, inspection criteria, maintenance records, storage, preservation, and scheduled servicing for punches, dies, roll sets, and related components.\nManage the repair/replacement pipeline for worn or damaged tooling, including outside grinding, machining, heat treating, and specialist tooling vendors as needed.\nImplement 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.\nTrack tooling-related downtime, recurring quality issues, maintenance cost, and tool life to identify corrective actions and replacement needs.\nOperating Interfaces & Decision Rights\nMaintenance Manager: accountable for machine health, repair priorities, maintenance safety, scheduled PMs, spare parts, toolroom staffing, tooling condition, and repair/refurbishment execution.\nSenior 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.\nProduction: accountable for operating equipment, routine line setup and changeover execution, production scheduling, and timely defect/breakdown reporting.\nQuality: accountable for product acceptance criteria, inspection disposition, and quality-system requirements; partners with Engineering and Maintenance to verify corrective-action effectiveness.\nFor 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.\nSafety, Projects & Cross-Functional Support\nOwn execution of maintenance safety practices including lockout/tagout, electrical safe work, guarding, hot work, and contractor controls; support OSHA and NFPA 70E requirements.\nSupport 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.\nPartner 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.\nMaintain an organized, safe maintenance shop and toolroom with effective 5S and parts/tool storage practices.\nEquipment & Process Coverage\nRoll-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.\nQualifications\nRequired\n7+ years of progressive industrial maintenance experience, preferably in metal fabrication, stamping, or roll forming; prior responsibility for directing personnel and coordinating plant maintenance work.\nDemonstrated ability to lead a small hands-on technical team while personally resolving complex plant equipment problems.\nStrong mechanical and industrial electrical troubleshooting, including 480V three-phase systems, schematics, VFDs, hydraulics, pneumatics, and safe work practices.\nPractical understanding of punch/stamping dies and roll-form tooling, including tool wear, alignment, preventive service, and production troubleshooting; ability to direct experienced tooling personnel.\nExperience using a CMMS for preventive maintenance, work management, and reliability improvement; disciplined documentation and prioritization.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, and external tooling/equipment suppliers.\nPreferred\nToolroom or tool-and-die leadership in a metalworking manufacturing operation.\nPLC/HMI troubleshooting familiarity (Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens or similar); advanced PLC programming is not required if supported by a Controls Technician.\nExperience with laser cutting welding automation, press brakes, paint/powder equipment, and plant utilities.\nTechnical diploma, associate degree, or equivalent extensive industrial maintenance/tooling experience; familiarity with TPM, 5S, RCA, and equipment capital projects.\nMeasures of Success - First 12 Months\nSafety: documented LOTO/electrical-safe-work compliance, timely hazard closure, and effective near-miss follow-through.\nReliability: 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.\nPreventive maintenance: at least 95% on-time completion of scheduled PMs, with periodic effectiveness review rather than completion alone.\nTooling: 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.\nExecution: accurate Tractian work orders, controlled backlog, improved repair planning, critical-parts availability, and measurable employee skills development.\nCost 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.\nPhysical & Work Environment\nRegular 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.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nEngineered Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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