Maintenance Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. PPG scores B on the Alion truth index.
PPG is hiring a Maintenance Manager to join the team at our Fort Wayne, Indiana Plant. You will report directly to the Plant Manager and supervise a team of 2-4 maintenance technicians.
Key Responsibilities
- Confers with management, engineering, quality control, customers and employees to coordinate activities and resolve problems.
- Confers with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within departments or between departments; confers with management to achieve budget goals.
- Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments, and maintenance operations to meet needs of facility. Calculates labor and equipment requirements, resolves racking and tooling issues, reads and analyzes charts, work orders, or production schedules to determine maintenance needs.
- Hands-on maintenance duties are required and expected.
- Trains new employees and demonstrates equipment operations or work procedures to new employees or assigns employees to experienced workers for training; recommends corrective actions.
- Inspects materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions; interprets specification, blueprints, job orders, and company policy and procedures for employees
- Monitors and patrols entire facility and enforces safety and environmental regulations.
- Monitor gauges, dials, tools, and other indicators to ensure operators conform to necessary standards.
- Ensures preventative maintenance is completed; maintains maintenance records and updates metric system on a timely basis. eMaintenance knowledge helpful.
- Requisitions materials, supplies, equipment parts, repair services; maintains accurate inventory and controls inventory flow.
- Utilizes electronic tracking system for all purchases to ensure budgetary compliance. ePro knowledge helpful.
- Working knowledge of TS 16949.
- Attends and participates in all needed meetings.
- Large portion of the duties are EHS related most maintain timeliness with actions.
Qualifications
- Associates degree in related field and 5+ years of experience OR 7+ years of experience in lieu of degree
- Maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Previous people leadership experience
- Purchasing/ accounting code experience
- Experience having EHS responsibilities such as supporting audits, permit compliance and hazardous waste management.
- Automotive or Coatings experience is preferred
About us:
PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD ®
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