Senior Manager, Maintenance

Driven by a commitment to research, quality, and service, PDI provides innovative products, educational resources, training, and support to prevent infection transmission and promote health and wellness. Encompassing three areas, our Healthcare, Sani Professional and Contract manufacturing divisions, we develop, manufacture, and distribute leading edge products for North America and the world. We have several locations across the US and are looking for new Associates to join our team! 

POSITION PURPOSE 

The Senior Manager, Maintenance is responsible for leading the site Maintenance organization across all shifts. This role provides leadership for maintenance execution discipline, preventive maintenance performance, CMMS adoption, supervisor accountability, shift-to-shift continuity, and equipment reliability improvement. 

The role is accountable for ensuring Maintenance remains focused on equipment reliability, technical health, PM execution, repeat failure elimination, and rapid response to production-critical issues. The Senior Manager, Maintenance will drive a culture of accountability, communication, standard work, and data-driven decision-making across the Maintenance team. 

This position plays a key role in sustaining a system-driven, three-shift reliability organization and ensuring daily maintenance behaviors align with the site ownership model. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES 

Maintenance Execution Leadership 

• Lead Maintenance execution across all shifts to improve reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and strengthen response discipline.
• Establish clear expectations for Process and Packaging Maintenance Manager/Supervisors, mechanics, lead mechanics, planner, and support roles.
• Drive daily execution discipline through structured shift reporting, escalation adherence, issue tracking, and follow-up.
• Ensure Maintenance resources remain focused on production-critical equipment reliability, PM execution, technical troubleshooting, and repeat failure elimination.
• Lead daily and weekly Maintenance reviews focused on downtime, break-ins, PM adherence, schedule completion, repeat issues, and open action closure.
• Build consistency across all three shifts by strengthening communication, handoffs, work standards, and leadership routines.

 

CMMS Ownership and Work Management Discipline 

• Own site Maintenance CMMS adoption, data accuracy, and long-term sustainment.
• Establish expectations for work order creation, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, and documentation.
• Drive accurate asset history, failure coding, labor reporting, parts usage, and completion notes.
• Partner with the Planner/Scheduler to improve weekly and monthly maintenance planning, labor loading, schedule compliance, and PM visibility.
• Ensure CMMS data is used to identify trends, repeat failures, PM effectiveness gaps, and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Lead change management for CMMS adoption across Maintenance Supervisors, technicians, production partners, and support teams.

 

Preventive Maintenance and Reliability Performance 

• Own PM execution performance, PM schedule adherence, and continuous improvement of preventive maintenance effectiveness.
• Drive PM optimization by eliminating low-value tasks, improving task quality, and aligning PMs to actual failure modes.
• Partner with Engineering and OpEx to identify chronic downtime drivers and support corrective action plans.
• Lead Maintenance participation in RCA, repeat failure elimination, and reliability improvement routines.
• Support implementation of predictive and condition-based maintenance practices where appropriate.
• Maintain focus on equipment technical health, uptime improvement, MTTR reduction, and MTBF improvement.

 

Supervisor Accountability and Team Leadership

 

• Lead, coach, and develop Maintenance Supervisors to strengthen shift-level ownership, accountability, and communication.
• Set clear performance expectations for shift execution, response time, work quality, PM completion, schedule adherence, and escalation discipline.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching discussions, and development planning for direct reports.
• Build leadership capability across the Maintenance organization by reinforcing standard work, feedback discipline, and problem-solving behaviors.
• Promote a culture of safety, urgency, teamwork, technical excellence, and accounta