Facilities Maintenance Manager

Maintenance & Facilities Manager

Location: Clarksville, TN

Compensation: $140,000–$150,000 base salary + 15% target bonus

Relocation: Generous relocation assistance available

PTO: Three weeks to start, with potential flexibility based on experience

Position Overview

An established manufacturer is seeking a Maintenance & Facilities Manager to lead maintenance, facilities, and reliability operations at a large manufacturing plant.

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.

The company’s identity will be shared during confidential discussions with qualified candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Compensation & Opportunity

• $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.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for a confidential conversation.