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Job Title: Maintenance Manager
Location: Auburn, IN.
Job Type: Onsite
Reporting to: Plant Manager
Company Overview: FXI is a leading producer of foam innovation in the Bedding, Furniture, Industrial, Home & Office, Healthcare, and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers. Our products include finished goods, sub-assemblies, services, and raw materials for OEMs, fabricators, and retailers. You will find FXI's foam innovations inside, around, and under yourself in countless applications. Everywhere foam goes, FXI's innovations lead the way! Won't you join us?
Job Summary
This position leads the Maintenance function, providing proactive, predictive, and reactive maintenance support for all production equipment and facility infrastructure. Responsible for creating maintenance schedules and ensuring that work is completed on time and to standard. Improves site operational effectiveness by increasing equipment reliability, reducing unplanned downtime, and extending mean time between failures (MTBF), while delivering projects on time and on budget. Drives Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ensures that Health, Safety, and Environmental requirements are met. Leads, mentors, and develops the maintenance team, sets technical best practices, and establishes standard policies and procedures. Champions continuous improvement and modern manufacturing principles by identifying deficiencies and recommending changes to training, working practices, and processes, and uses data and digital tools to guide maintenance decisions.
Key Responsiblities
- Manages capital projects, including defining scope, specifications, design, cost, and milestones, and oversees installation, commissioning, start-up, and debugging of new equipment for the production process.
- Coordinates and manages work performed by outside contractors and vendors, including safety compliance and quality of work.
- Responds effectively to emergencies, unplanned problems, and equipment failures, and leads root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
- Adapts maintenance tools, procedures, and strategies, including preventive and condition-based (predictive) maintenance, to improve equipment utilization, reliability, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), while monitoring and controlling maintenance costs.
- Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services, following manufacturer instructions and established procedures, and requesting specialized service as needed.
- Works with vendors to source parts and evaluate cost-effective alternatives to OEM parts, designs and tests improved parts, and upgrades obsolete or unsupported electronics and controls to improve equipment functionality and reliability.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and direction to shift technicians in all aspects of their work, including skills development, cross-training, and succession planning.
- Serves as a key resource for safety-related issues, with the goal of meeting or exceeding OSHA requirements for a safe workplace, including lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and electrical safety.
- Leads continuous improvement efforts using lean manufacturing and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles.
- Manages the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), ensuring accurate work orders, asset records, and preventive maintenance plans, and uses maintenance data and KPIs to prioritize work and support decisions.
- Manages the maintenance budget and MRO spare parts inventory, ensuring critical spares are available while controlling carrying costs.
- Reviews documentation changes to engineering prints and to maintenance and manufacturing work instructions for quality, ensuring that proper manufacturing and engineering practices are followed.
- Participates as a functional member of new product development teams, ensuring appropriate design controls, providing technical assistance, and ensuring that validation activities are completed.
- Participates in and leads safety initiatives and drives FXI’s safety culture throughout the facility.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related discipline; an equivalent combination of work experience, training, and/or education may be considered.
- Must possess a minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing shop floor experience.
- Must have prior project management experience.
- Must have demonstrated machine and equipment troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis.
- Must have knowledge of lean manufacturing concepts, continuous improvement, and problem-solving methodologies.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, manufacturing software, SAP, and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
- Basic working knowledge of PLCs (preferably Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation) sufficient to support troubleshooting and diagnostics; PLC programming is not required.
- Preferred: working knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies (e.g., vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis) and maintenance data analytics.
Total Rewards:
We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Basic and optional life insurance
- Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tuition assistance
- Flexible spending accounts
Our Commitment to a Diverse Workforce: FXI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FXI does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or based on any individual’s membership in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We support workplace diversity. We strongly believe that diversity contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
FXI is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FXI via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of FXI. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by FXI as a result of the referral or through other means.
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