{"id":3975928,"url":"https://alion.io/job/magna-maintenance-manager-3","title":"Maintenance Manager","company":{"id":94374,"name":"Magna","domain":"magna.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/magna-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":338,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.672,"repost_share":0.012,"time_to_fill_p50_days":49,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Battle Creek, 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":"2026-11-09T18:04:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T05:50:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Job descriptions may display in multiple languagesbased on your language selection.\nWhat we offer:\nAt Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.\nGroup Summary:\nCosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.\nJob Responsibilities:\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nLead maintenance activities across all three shifts through the department leadership.\nFollow the Magna Employee Charter and Operational Principles.\nSafety and Compliance\nPromote and practice “safety first” by immediately addressing hazards, defective equipment and unsafe conditions in the department, on the manufacturing floor and at workstations.\nAddress unsafe work practices through training or progressive discipline, as appropriate.\nEnsure required training, licenses, reports and documentation are completed and maintained for lockout/tagout (LOTO), fall protection, cranes, booms, 5S, fire exits, waste, personal protective equipment (PPE), confined spaces, forklifts, incident reporting and bloodborne hazards.\nEnsure maintenance team members attend required daily and weekly safety and shift communications and receive safety-related training promptly.\nSupport plant accident and incident investigations. Ensure investigations involving maintenance team members are completed in full and submitted to HSE within 24 hours of the incident.\nReliability and Preventive Maintenance\nOwn a dynamic, risk-based preventive maintenance program. Define asset-specific tasks, frequencies, acceptance criteria, labor and parts using equipment condition, failure history and manufacturer recommendations. Protect maintenance windows with Production, audit work quality and convert findings into corrective work orders.\nApply predictive and condition-based maintenance according to asset criticality, including oil analysis, hydraulic fluid cleanliness, vibration monitoring, thermography and leak monitoring where appropriate. Maintain accurate asset records, maintenance plans and work histories in MaintenX, and schedule corrective work before failure.\nLead structured root-cause analysis for major and recurring failures. Assign owners and due dates, verify corrective-action effectiveness and incorporate lessons into maintenance standards, spare-parts strategies and training. Prioritize permanent solutions over repeated temporary repairs.\nPartner with Production on operator equipment care, abnormal-condition reporting and clear boundaries between operator care and skilled maintenance. Improve housekeeping, lubrication and early defect detection; reduce energy losses, fluid leaks and resource waste. Partner with Engineering and Quality on controlled return to production after significant repairs, including required safety and process checks.\nTeam Leadership and Development\nLead through department leadership on all shifts with urgency, safe work practices and attention to quality and production priorities. Build a motivated team through clear expectations, coaching, recognition, employee involvement and visible leadership; encourage technical curiosity, knowledge sharing and ownership of improvements.\nMaintain a skills matrix and individual development plans. Provide OEM and hands-on training, mentoring, cross-training, apprenticeship opportunities and competency verification. Equip every shift with calibrated diagnostic tools, current schematics, troubleshooting guides, software access and technical support.\nConduct performance evaluations according to company requirements. Promote the Open Door Process without reprisal, effective communication and fair treatment.\nPlanning and Investment\nLead daily maintenance reviews and documented shift handovers covering equipment condition, breakdowns, risks and recovery ownership. Maintain a prioritized MaintenX backlog and weekly schedule with job plans, parts, resources and production access confirmed. Establish escalation and after-hours coverage with accountable leadership through recovery and handover.\nAssess equipment condition and execute a prioritized, multiyear restoration and modernization roadmap. Define target conditions for safety, reliability, process capability, maintainability and obsolescence risk. Prepare operating and capital budgets, shutdown scopes and project justifications; manage cost, schedule, contractors and acceptance criteria through verified closure.\nReport project status and equipment risks, drive continual improvement, and establish and improve productivity, quality, environmental, health and safety goals. Adhere to customer requirements, the Business Operating System and company policies. Perform other assigned job-related duties.\nPurchasing and Spare Parts\nPartner with Purchasing and the crib team to optimize spare parts using asset criticality, equipment bills of material, consumption, lead times and failure consequences. Establish critical-spares lists, minimum/maximum levels and reorder points; improve inventory accuracy, storage, preservation and repairable-component management. Reduce stockouts, obsolescence and emergency purchases without compromising availability.\nApprove purchases within delegated authority, verifying technical suitability, need, quality, warranty and lifecycle cost. Standardize components where practical and establish dependable supplier, repair and OEM support. Optimize consumables usage and cost without compromising safety, quality or equipment condition.\nTechnology and Launch Readiness\nEvaluate and pilot advanced technologies through practical business cases and defined success criteria. Partner with technical experts to validate benefits, train users and sustain adopted solutions within approved safety, cybersecurity and company requirements.\nReview reliability, maintainability, accessibility, component standardization and lifecycle support before equipment purchase. Verify launch readiness through technical documentation, spare parts, PM plans, technician training, software backups, warranty provisions and closure of acceptance issues.\nMaintain controlled electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic drawings, equipment histories, PLC/HMI/robot program backups and restoration procedures. Manage equipment changes with Engineering and authorized specialists through review, documentation and validation. Maintain contingency plans for critical failures and obsolete controls.\nMeasures of Success\nAgree scorecard definitions, establish verified baselines and set annual improvement targets. Review results with the team and act on gaps. Maintain detailed metric definitions and supporting measures in the operating scorecard; assess overall equipment effectiveness jointly with Production and Engineering.\nMachine uptime: Improve equipment availability and reduce unplanned downtime, repair duration and recurring breakdowns.\nPM effectiveness: Demonstrate failure prevention through work-quality audits and reduced repeat failures-not simply scheduled-task completion.\nConsumables cost: Optimize usage and cost against budget and production volume without compromising safety, product quality or equipment condition.\nSpare-parts management: Ensure critical-parts availability, improve inventory accuracy and reduce stockouts, emergency purchases and obsolete inventory.\nTeam morale: Build engagement and motivation through development, recognition, involvement and constructive feedback; monitor confidential team feedback, retention and development participation.\nOptional opportunity-International visibility and best-practice sharing: For a manager interested in broader exposure, this role offers the opportunity, subject to business needs and management approval, to represent Cosma Casting Michigan at international Magna events and technical forums. Showcase the plant’s maintenance innovations and proven best practices, exchange ideas with peers across the Magna network, and bring valuable learning back to the team. This is an optional development opportunity, not an essential duty or a requirement to present at events.\n\nQualifications\nDemonstrated maintenance leadership in high-pressure die casting or a comparably complex automated manufacturing environment, with a practical understanding of die casting cell equipment and utilities.\nDemonstrated ability to improve reliability through preventive maintenance, structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and technician development.\nStrong people leadership skills: build positive working relationships, coach and motivate teams, make timely decisions and lead by example with a constructive attitude.\nClear written and verbal communication; ability to prepare and interpret reports, instructions, procedures and guidelines, and present information to management, team members, suppliers and customers.\nAbility to prioritize and schedule competing demands, meet deadlines, maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion and tact.\nUnderstanding of how maintenance performance affects product quality and customer satisfaction. Ability to work flexible hours as needed.\nEducation, Skills and Experience\nHigh school diploma, GED or equivalent experience preferred. Journeyman status preferred.\nStrong equipment diagnostic skills and working knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, mechanical power transmission, electrical systems and electronics, robotics, and schematics and blueprint reading.\nTechnical knowledge of HPDC equipment, shot and clamping systems, furnaces, vacuum, die spray, thermal control, automation, trim presses and utilities sufficient to lead qualified specialists and make sound maintenance decisions.\nWorking knowledge of gas, MIG and TIG welding processes sufficient to plan work and supervise qualified specialists; hands-on welding proficiency is not a required qualification for this management role.\nWorking knowledge of preventive maintenance procedures, OSHA regulations and the National Electrical Code.\nWorking knowledge of CMMS administration, maintenance planning and scheduling, asset criticality, spare-parts management, budgeting and capital project execution.\nAbility to use required business and maintenance software, interpret reliability data, establish practical improvement priorities and communicate equipment risks and recovery plans.\n\nWork Environment\nWork takes place in office and manufacturing environments, including a plant floor characterized by temperature extremes and loud noise.\nPerform essential functions on the plant floor and in meetings with employees across departments, management, customers and suppliers, with reasonable accommodations as appropriate.\nOther Considerations\nThis job description outlines the role’s primary responsibilities. As business needs evolve, the team member may also be asked to support other job-related activities in collaboration with their leader or manager.\nThe duties under Essential Duties and Responsibilities describe the position’s fundamental job functions. Preferred qualifications and the optional international development opportunity are not essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nSome requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other team members.\nRequirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities, except where identified as preferred or optional. 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