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Maintenance Operations Manager
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About this role

Position Summary: The Maintenance Facility Manager is accountable for driving Maintenance Quality Management (MQM) excellence within an automotive manufacturing facility. This role ensures safe, reliable, and standardized maintenance execution that maximizes equipment availability, supports production stability, and reduces lifecycle costs. The manager establishes clear maintenance ownership, enforces standards, and uses data-driven KPIs to continuously improve asset performance and facility reliability.

Benefits: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Team Member Benefits | Staff & Management

Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30AM-3:30PM & weekends as needed

Responsibilities:

1. Maintenance Strategy & Asset Ownership

  • Establish clear asset ownership and accountability for all equipment and facility systems
  • Deploy and sustain Reactive and Planned Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance, Focused Improvement, and Early Equipment Management
  • Define and maintain equipment maintenance standards, PM content, and critical asset strategies
  • Ensure maintenance plans align with asset criticality, risk, and production impact

2. Planned, Predictive & Preventive Maintenance Execution

  • Lead execution of standardized PM and PdM programs with a strong focus on schedule compliance and quality
  • Ensure PMs are optimized, documented, and continuously improved based on failure data and root cause analysis
  • Drive first-time quality in maintenance work to prevent repeat failures
  • Reduce reactive maintenance through disciplined planning and scheduling

3. Maintenance Quality & Standard Work

  • Implement and enforce maintenance standard work, job plans, and procedures
  • Ensure maintenance tasks are performed safely, consistently, and to defined quality standards
  • Conduct routine audits of PM execution, job quality, and documentation
  • Use MQM audits and assessments to identify gaps and drive corrective actions

4. Reliability, KPIs & Continuous Improvement

  • Own and review maintenance KPIs, including:
    • PM Compliance
    • Schedule Adherence
    • MQM (Maintenance Quality Management) initiatives
    • Maintenance Cost per Unit
    • Drive continuous improvement processes
  • Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and focused improvement activities for chronic failures
  • Use data from CMMS, downtime tracking, and audits to drive sustained reliability improvements

5. Collaboration with Operations (TPM Integration)

  • Partner with client facility team to support Autonomous Maintenance, operator care, and basic equipment condition standards
  • Clearly define maintenance vs. operator responsibilities
  • Support training for operators and technicians aligned to TPM maturity
  • Participate in daily management, tier meetings, and reliability reviews

6. Safety, Compliance & Risk Management

  • Ensure maintenance work complies with EHS requirements, lockout/tagout standards, and regulatory expectations
  • Eliminate safety risks through standardized work, training, and risk-based maintenance planning
  • Support internal and external audits (safety, quality, environmental)

7. People Development & Maintenance Culture

  • Develop maintenance leaders and technicians through training, coaching, and skills assessments
  • Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and proactive maintenance
  • Align performance expectations to MQM and TPM behaviors, not just output
  • Promote collaboration with Human Resources/ TA teams to meet staffing contractual requirements
  • Develop and maintain progressive staff development and accountability to promote growth and or corrective action

8. Planning, Scheduling & CMMS Discipline

  • Ensure effective work identification, planning, scheduling, and execution processes
  • Enforce accurate CMMS data, including asset hierarchies, work history, and failure coding
  • Use CMMS as the system of record for maintenance planning, execution, and analysis

9. Budget, Spares & Lifecycle Cost Control

  • Manage maintenance budgets with a focus on cost control through reliability, not deferred maintenance
  • Identify and promote self-preformed TAG (Temporary Agreement) opportunities
  • Establish critical spare parts strategies aligned to asset risk
  • Support lifecycle cost optimization and capital planning decisions

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 3-4 years in maintenance leadership or facility management
  • Strong working knowledge of TPM, MQM, and reliability-centered maintenance
  • Experience leading CMMS-driven maintenance programs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Automotive manufacturing experience (assembly, paint, stamping, powertrain)
  • TPM or MQM implementation experience
  • Lean Manufacturing certification or equivalent experience
  • CMRP or similar maintenance certification

Key Competencies (ABM-Aligned)

  • Maintenance ownership mindset
  • Discipline in standard work and execution
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Strong cross-functional leadership
  • Continuous improvement and coaching capability

Other facts

Tech stack
Maintenance Quality Management,Reliability-Centered Maintenance,TPM,CMMS,Data-Driven Decision Making,Continuous Improvement,Root Cause Analysis,Safety Compliance,Budget Management,Asset Ownership,Preventive Maintenance,Collaboration,Coaching,Planning,Scheduling,Documentation

About ABM US

ABM is one of the world’s largest providers of integrated facility, engineering, and infrastructure solutions. Every day, our over 100,000 team members deliver essential services that make spaces cleaner, safer, and efficient, enhancing the overall occupant experience.

ABM serves a wide range of market sectors including commercial real estate, aviation, education, mission critical, and manufacturing and distribution. With over $8 billion in annual revenue and a blue-chip client base, ABM delivers innovative technologies and sustainable solutions that enhance facilities and empower clients to achieve their goals. Committed to creating smarter, more connected spaces, ABM is investing in the future to meet evolving challenges and build a healthier, thriving world. ABM: Driving possibility, together.

For more information, visit www.ABM.com

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Facilities Services
Founding Year: 1909

What you'll do

  • The Maintenance Operations Manager is responsible for driving maintenance quality management excellence and ensuring safe, reliable, and standardized maintenance execution. This includes establishing maintenance ownership, enforcing standards, and using data-driven KPIs to improve asset performance.

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