Maintenance & Engineering Manager

Location: This position is on-site at our Fife, WA facility.

Position Summary:The Maintenance & Engineering Manager is a key leadership position that is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of maintenance, reliability, and engineering operations within the facility or organization.

This role ensures optimal equipment performance, safety and environmental compliance, and infrastructure reliability by developing and executing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The manager oversees a team of technicians, engineers, and/or contractors, ensuring efficient resource allocation and effective problem-solving to minimize downtime and enhance productivity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintenance & Engineering:


* Promote a safety-first culture by ensuring a secure working environment for all employees.


* Ensure all maintenance activities comply with relevant safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, EPA).


* Facilitate annual EH&S audits and ensure compliance with safety regulations.


* Leverage CMMS to develop, implement, and oversee preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment uptime and asset life.


* Measure and analyze actual and predicted maintenance costs to determine priority of improvement initiatives.


* Conduct timely and competent root cause analyses.

Recommend and implement innovative, efficient, and effective corrective actions resulting in stable and capable processes.


* Manage maintenance resources and schedules; prioritize work to align with production needs and minimize disruptions.


* Lead the planning, budgeting, and execution of capital improvement projects, facility upgrades, and equipment installations and repairs.


* Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as equipment uptime, maintenance response time, and project completion; prepare regular reports for leadership.



* Analyze current workflows to identify optimization opportunities, focusing on waste reduction and cost savings.


* Conduct downtime, line balancing, motion, and manufacturing capacity studies; design product line layouts and route plans to improve efficiency.


* Lead cross-functional teams on continuous improvement projects, utilizing lean manufacturing principles, process control, automation, and capability enhancement.


* Maintain engineering changes, bills of materials, product routings, and manufacturing/process documentation.



* Ensure that engineering designs and project plans comply with safety, quality, and regulatory standards.


* Support vendor negotiations for spare parts, equipment purchases and/or leases, and service contracts.


* Oversee spare parts inventory to ensure availability while optimizing cost and storage space.


* Develop and uphold standard operating procedures (SOPs) and quality documentation related to engineering and ma...