Maintenance Manager
Permanent
About Heraeus Electro-Nite
How do steel makers save energy and become more sustainable? How do foundries become more efficient and optimize their processes? Heraeus Electro-Nite (HEN) provides solutions for the molten metal industry. We lead the market with our innovations since the 1950s. As a global company with 25 locations and approximately 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to the sustainable growth of our teams and sites.
Heraeus Electro-Nite, headquartered in Houthalen (Belgium), is part of the Heraeus Group. The Technology Group delivers world-class quality in the areas of Precious Metals, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics and Industrials. As one of the top 10 family-owned companies in Germany, Heraeus employs around 15,100 employees in 40 countries.
Your role and responsibilities:
- Job Summary - We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead and develop our maintenance team in a high-tech manufacturing environment in Hartland, Wisconsin. This role will be responsible for building a structured, proactive maintenance program that improves equipment reliability, supports safe and efficient production, and reduces unplanned downtime. The ideal candidate is a hands-on people leader who can strengthen preventive maintenance, work-order planning, CMMS utilization, and performance tracking while partnering closely with production, engineering, and outside contractors.
- Safely and productively maintain all production equipment to ensure its consistent and optimum working order to meet production needs.
- Maintain and improve the building's structure, facility equipment/machinery and systems.
- Manage and coordinate activities of the maintenance team and outside contractors by implementing and utilizing a structured work order system.
- Develop, implement, and manage a preventive maintenance and inventory program which will reduce machine breakdowns and downtime.
- Establish KPI metrics and use them to measure maintenance and machine performance, make informed decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
- Work with the engineering team and production supervisors on new and existing equipment and a variety of other capital improvement projects.
What is required for this role:
- Experience in an equivalent role.
- Associate or bachelor's degree in industrial maintenance, electrical, mechanical or related engineering discipline.
- A talented, effective leader with experience building and motivating a maintenance team and creating a structured workflow system and cross training program.
- Has successfully implemented a CMMS.
- Has established maintenance KPI metrics and used them to drive continuous improvement.
- Has managed both internal employees and external contractors.
- Has automated manufacturing experience.
- Background in electrical, mechanical, HVAC, tool and die, machining, pneumatics, electronics, gas, metal fab, welding, and hydraulics.
- Building and grounds maintenance experience.
- Experience with managing assets, capital improvements and engineering projects.
- SAP experience
What about you?
If you have further questions, please contact hen_globalrecruitment@heraeus.com or visit our website at jobs.heraeus.com. We look forward to receiving your documents by reference code 59905 via our online application portal.
ReqID: 59905