Job Description
Maintenance & Facilities Manager
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Location: Clarksville, TN
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Compensation: $140,000–$150,000 base salary + 15% target bonus
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Relocation: Generous relocation assistance available
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PTO: Three weeks to start, with potential flexibility based on experience
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Position Overview
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An established manufacturer is seeking a Maintenance & Facilities Manager to lead maintenance, facilities, and reliability operations at a large manufacturing plant.
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This senior leadership position focuses on developing people, setting maintenance strategy, managing budgets, and improving plant performance. The manager will oversee a large technical team across multiple shifts, with responsibility for both production equipment and facility infrastructure.
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The company’s identity will be shared during confidential discussions with qualified candidates.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Lead and develop maintenance and facilities personnel across multiple shifts, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and performance expectations.
- Set plant maintenance and reliability strategies that improve equipment availability, asset life, safety, and operating costs.
- Oversee preventive and predictive maintenance, maintenance planning, root-cause analysis, spare-parts management, and CMMS utilization.
- Direct maintenance support for production equipment, including automated machinery, robotics, conveyors, presses, CNC equipment, and electrical and mechanical systems.
- Manage facility infrastructure and utilities, including electrical distribution, HVAC, compressed air, boilers, chillers, water systems, and fire protection.
- Manage an approximately $10 million maintenance and facilities budget, including operating expenses, contractor services, inventory, and utilities.
- Track and improve uptime, downtime, PM compliance, MTTR, MTBF, and maintenance costs.
- Partner with engineering and operations on equipment installations, facility improvements, and capital planning.
- Ensure adherence to safety and environmental requirements, including lockout/tagout, machine safety, electrical safety, and contractor safety.
- Lead coordinated responses to major equipment failures, utility interruptions, and facility emergencies.
- Identify opportunities to improve energy efficiency, reliability, and resource utilization.
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Required Qualifications
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- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Facilities Management, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of maintenance management or leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Previous responsibility for at least 50 direct reports.
- Experience overseeing both production equipment maintenance and industrial facility infrastructure.
- Experience managing an annual budget of at least $6 million.
- Working knowledge of PLCs, controls, and industrial automation; programming expertise is not required.
- Strong understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment reliability, industrial utilities, and CMMS systems.
- Demonstrated ability to develop teams, delegate effectively, establish strategy, and lead a large operation.
- Experience supporting maintenance operations across multiple shifts.
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Preferred Qualifications
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- Leadership experience in a large, complex manufacturing plant.
- Demonstrated improvements in uptime, maintenance costs, safety, and equipment reliability.
- Experience with facility upgrades, equipment installations, and capital project coordination.
- Background leading continuous-improvement and energy-efficiency initiatives.
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Compensation & Opportunity
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- $140,000–$150,000 annual base salary.
- 15% target annual bonus.
- Generous relocation assistance.
- Three weeks of starting PTO, with potential flexibility based on experience.
- Opportunity to shape maintenance strategy and develop a large technical organization.
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Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for a confidential conversation.