Facilities and Manufacturing Support Manager

The posting

The Facilities and Manufacturing Support Manager provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for Apache Stainless’ facilities, manufacturing infrastructure, maintenance systems, equipment reliability, and assigned manufacturing support functions. This position ensures that facilities and equipment remain safe and reliable and that approved new parts and changes are translated into accurate manufacturing information and released through the ERP system in time to support production. The role leads Maintenance personnel and manufacturing support employees responsible for CNC programming, nesting and for ERP change processing and new-part BOM and MOM setup. The manager leads capital and infrastructure projects, manages departmental resources, and works across Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Purchasing, IT, and Finance. The position combines leadership and process ownership with hands-on support when needed to meet production commitments.

Leadership and Cross-Functional Support

· Lead, coach, and develop Maintenance personnel and assigned technical resources; establish clear priorities, responsibilities, training expectations, and performance standards.

· Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to identify and implement practical opportunities that improve reliability, workflow, capacity, ergonomics, quality, and operating efficiency.

· Support automation and technology initiatives by helping evaluate infrastructure requirements, installation risks, maintainability, utilities, controls, and long-term support needs.

· Promote employee involvement in identifying facility, maintenance, safety, and process concerns, and ensure recommendations are evaluated and addressed through a defined prioritization process.

· Communicate project status, maintenance risks, resource needs, and performance trends to leadership and affected departments.

Safety and Environmental Risk Management

· Work closely with the Safety team to identify facility and equipment hazards, implement effective controls, and support safe work practices for employees and contractors.

· Ensure facility and maintenance activities comply with applicable environmental, safety, building, fire, and other regulatory requirements.

· Support environmental programs involving waste management, spill prevention, air or water controls, chemical storage, energy use, and required inspections or records.

· Maintain contractor safety, qualification, insurance, access, and performance expectations.

· Identify facility-related business continuity risks and develop response or mitigation plans for critical equipment failures, utility interruptions, weather events, and other operational disruptions.

· Support emergency preparedness, response planning, and recovery activities related to facilities and utilities.

Budgets and Facility Services

· Develop and manage departmental operating and capital budgets; monitor spending, forecast needs, and report significant variances.

· Select, coordinate, and evaluate contractors, service providers, and suppliers using appropriate technical, safety, quality, service, and cost criteria.

· Oversee facility-service programs such as cleaning, grounds, snow removal, pest control, waste handling, building access, and other contracted services.

· Negotiate service agreements and maintain appropriate schedules for inspections, certifications, and recurring maintenance.

Management Systems and Performance

· Establish, maintain, and report meaningful performance measures for maintenance, facility services, projects, budgets, and asset reliability.

· Use data, employee input, maintenance history, risk, and business priorities to improve work methods and allocate resources effectively.

· Develop and maintain procedures, work instructions, records, and controls needed to support the Business Management System.

· Participate in audits, corrective actions, management reviews, and risk-based planning when facilities, equipment, environmental controls, or maintenance processes are involved.

· Keep current on technologies, regulations, and practices affecting manufacturing facilities, reliability, automation, energy management, and infrastructure.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance measures will be established based on business priorities and may include:

· Preventive maintenance completion and schedule compliance

· Unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures

· Maintenance backlog, response time, and work-order quality

· Capital project safety, schedule, budget, and acceptance performance

· Maintenance and facility spending compared with budget

· Utility consumption, waste, and facility operating-cost trends

· Contractor performance and completion of required inspections

· Closure of identified safety, compliance, reliability, and infrastructure risks

· On-time completion of new-part setups and approved changes against agreed production need dates

· Manufacturing support backlog volume, age, and change-request turnaround time

· First-pass accuracy of BOMs, MOMs, CNC programs, and nesting files

· Production delays and rework attributable to incomplete or incorrect manufacturing information

· Material utilization and scrap associated with nesting and programming

Qualifications

Education and Experience

· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Facilities Management, Operations Management, or a related field preferred. Equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience will be considered.

· Five or more years of progressive experience in manufacturing facilities, industrial maintenance, engineering, reliability, or capital project management preferred.

· Two or more years of supervisory or team-leadership experience preferred.

· Experience in metal fabrication, welding, custom manufacturing, automated equipment, or similar industrial environments is preferred.

· Experience implementing or administering a CMMS, asset-management system, preventive maintenance program, or reliability program is preferred.

· Experience managing contractors, capital budgets, equipment installations, and facility modifications is strongly preferred.

· Experience with CNC programming, CAD/CAM, laser or other sheet-metal nesting software, and SolidWorks or comparable 3D CAD tools is strongly preferred.

· Experience creating and maintaining ERP part records, BOMs, MOMs or routings, and processing engineering changes in a manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.

Knowledge and Skills

· Working knowledge of industrial facilities, manufacturing equipment, utilities, building systems, and maintenance practices.

· Ability to translate operational needs into practical scopes, priorities, budgets, schedules, and action plans.

· Strong project-management, problem-solving, organizational, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

· Ability to lead employees, manage competing priorities, and coordinate work across departments without losing accountability.

· Clear professional communication with employees, leadership, contractors, suppliers, and regulatory contacts.

· Working knowledge of applicable environmental and workplace-safety requirements; ability to identify when specialized expertise is required.

· Comfort using business software, CMMS platforms, Microsoft 365 tools, dashboards, and data to manage work and communicate results.

· Ability to interpret engineering drawings, understand fabrication sequences, and verify consistency among drawings, programs, manufacturing methods, and ERP records.

· Ability to prioritize urgent production-support needs while sustaining maintenance, facilities, and capital-project responsibilities; willingness and ability to perform hands-on ERP processing when needed.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

· Work is performed in office, manufacturing, maintenance, utility, outdoor, and construction environments.

· Must be able to safely access manufacturing and facility areas, including areas requiring stairs, ladders, or work around operating equipment, with reasonable accommodation as applicable.

· May be required to respond outside normal business hours to significant facility, utility, safety, or equipment events.

· Required personal protective equipment and site safety rules must be followed.

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