Senior Maintenance and Facilities ManagerPosition Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled, strategic, and hands-on Senior Maintenance & Facilities Manager to lead the reliability, maintenance, and facilities operations for a printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication facility. This is a senior leadership role responsible for building a world-class, proactive maintenance and reliability program while overseeing the total operational efficiency, upkeep, and compliance of our buildings, grounds, and specialized production equipment.
Beyond day-to-day operations, you will serve as a key strategic partner in a significant operational transformation - establishing the systems, discipline, and structure that move the facility from reactive to proactive maintenance. You will mentor and elevate the existing maintenance team and align infrastructure with long-term business growth and technology roadmaps.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:- Establish and lead comprehensive Preventive (PM) and Predictive (PdM) maintenance programs across high-tech PCB fab equipment (plating/electroless lines, CNC drillers/routers, DES lines, exposure/imaging units, AOI, lamination, wastewater treatment).
- Implement foundational reliability practices currently absent - including FMEA (Failure Mode & Effects Analysis), asset criticality frameworks, root-cause analysis (RCA), and PM optimization - using reliability data to drive maintenance and capital decisions.
- Own and mature the CMMS; ensure disciplined work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and close-out. Establish accurate documentation of all maintenance activities, including outside-vendor/OEM work.
- Mentor, guide, and elevate the existing maintenance team and supervisor. Expand critical competencies (e.g., LOTO) across the team to eliminate single points of knowledge and build resilience.
- Establish storeroom control, stocking strategy, and critical spare-parts management to minimize MTTR.
- Oversee facility subsystems - HVAC, cleanrooms (ISO classification / Class 10k/100k), DI/RO water purification, chemical delivery, compressed air, and industrial wastewater treatment.
- Manage the building envelope, grounds, security, and fire protection/life-safety systems; oversee interior and exterior facility upkeep and remediation.
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations (EPA, OSHA, NJDEP) for hazardous waste, chemical handling, cleanliness standards, and workplace safety, in partnership with the environmental team.
- Align facilities and maintenance capability with long-term business objectives; plan and execute facility modifications and expansions for new technology and volume scaling.
- Formulate and manage the maintenance/facilities budget with rigorous documentation. Prepare itemized business cases and ROI analyses for capital investments, ensuring spending is tied to budgeted plans and proper approval processes.
- Identify energy-efficiency and waste-reduction opportunities to lower operational costs.
- Align facilities and maintenance capability with long-term business objectives; plan and execute facility modifications and expansions for new technology and volume scaling.
- Formulate and manage the maintenance/facilities budget with rigorous documentation. Prepare itemized business cases and ROI analyses for capital investments, ensuring spending is tied to budgeted plans and proper approval processes.
- Identify energy-efficiency and waste-reduction opportunities to lower operational costs.
Required Education, Skills, and Experience: - Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering, Facilities/Reliability Management, or a closely related technical field (equivalent advanced technical experience considered).
- 6-8 years in maintenance and reliability leadership within a high-tech manufacturing environment, with 8+ years preferred. Direct experience in semiconductor fab or PCB fabrication strongly preferred. What matters most is a demonstrated track record of building reliability programs (FMEA, criticality, RCA, PM optimization) and leading teams through a reactive-to-proactive maintenance shift.
- Demonstrated experience implementing reliability programs (FMEA, criticality analysis, RCA, PM optimization). CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional) or equivalent is a strong plus.
- Proven experience leading and developing maintenance teams and external contractors, ideally through an operational transformation or reactive-to-proactive maintenance shift.
This position description represents a summary of the major components and requirements of the outlined job. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned or required as business needs dictate. Questions regarding this description should immediately be addressed to the department manager or to Human Resources.
