Senior Manager, Maintenance

DescriptionDriven 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 PURPOSEThe 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 DUTIESMaintenance Leadership and Execution * Lead Maintenance across all shifts to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and ensure effective response to production needs. * Establish clear accountability and performance expectations for Maintenance Managers/Supervisors, mechanics, leads, planners, and support roles. * Drive consistent execution through structured shift handoffs, escalation protocols, issue tracking, and follow-up. * Ensure resources are effectively allocated to preventive maintenance, planned work, troubleshooting, breakdown response, and reliability improvements. * Lead routine performance reviews focused on downtime, PM compliance, schedule completion, repeat failures, and open actions.CMMS, Planning, and Work Management * Own site CMMS adoption, data integrity, and work management standards, including work order creation, prioritization, planning, execution, and closeout. * Partner with the Planner/Scheduler to optimize labor loading, job readiness, parts availability, backlog management, and schedule compliance. * Ensure accurate asset history, failure coding, labor reporting, parts usage, and maintenance documentation. * Use CMMS data to identify trends, recurring failures, PM gaps, and reliability improvement opportunities. * Increase planned versus reactive work while protecting production-critical and reliability-focused activities.Preventive Maintenance and Reliability * Own PM performance and continuously improve preventive maintenance effectiveness and schedule adherence. * Optimize PM programs by eliminating low-value activities and aligning tasks with equipment condition and failure modes. * Partner with Engineering and OpEx to address chronic downtime through root cause analysis and corrective action. * Implement predictive and condition-based maintenance practices where appropriate. * Drive improvements in equipment uptime, MTTR, MTBF, and repeat failure reduction.Team Leadership and Capability * Lead, coach, and develop Maintenance leaders to strengthen ownership, accountability, technical capability, and communication. * Establish expectations for response time, work quality, PM completion, schedule adherence, and escalation. * Conduct performance reviews, coaching, development planning, and succession planning for direct reports. * Support hiring, onboarding, cross-training, and skill development across the Maintenance organization. * Promote visible floor leadership and a culture of safety, urgency, teamwork, technical e