Shop Manager
Detroit, MIFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Shop Manager oversees maintenance mechanics and shop workers, facilitating equipment maintenance and repairs, administrative activities, and general shop operations. The role supervises staff across shifts, supports hiring and employee development, and helps set maintenance and safety goals. It also manages parts and supply inventories, repair practices, order approvals, and coordination with terminal management to maximize regional equipment availability.
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Full job description
Ready To Go Further? Saia is a different kind of logistics and transportation company. We do things the right way. You‘ll see it in our commitment to our people, customers, and community. You‘ll feel it in the support you get on day one – from leadership and from your team. A job with Saia is packed with opportunity – from learning new skills and advancing to competitive compensation and great benefits. It's all here and it’s exactly what going further is all about.
Position Summary Manages maintenance mechanics and shop workers. Facilitates the maintenance and repair of equipment, oversees administrative activities, and directs general shop operations.
Major Tasks and Responsibilities
- Supervises maintenance shop staff across various shifts.
- Interviews candidates, trains new hires, and provides coaching and counseling to employees.
- Assists in setting shop goals for maintenance and safety programs.
- Oversees the management of parts, tires, and supply inventories.
- Instructs technicians on the proper use of diagnostic tools and computer software to assist in troubleshooting equipment.
- Ensures technicians use proper preventative maintenance and repair practices on equipment.
- Manages approvals and payment processing for internal and external orders.
- Communicates with terminal management to maximize regional equipment availability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field.
- 5+ years of equipment maintenance experience, including 3+ years of management experience.
- Factory training and certification in engine diagnostic software.
- Knowledge of TMW transportation software.
Benefits At Saia, your success is our success! That’s why we work hard to provide you with what you need to build an awesome career. We are committed to rewarding superior employee performance so that when you work hard, your achievements won’t go unnoticed.
Make Your Move At Saia, our people are the reason we’ve been successful for over a century in the industry. Together, we’ve created a positive culture that’s driven by our core values – like dignity and respect, a customer-first approach, safety and more. With hundreds of terminals across the country and growing, we’re always looking for more collaborative and motivated individuals to join our team. So, if you’re ready to put your career on a solid path, let’s go further.
Saia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,068 open Maintenance Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$99–130K/yr536 salary ranges
- US median$24–29/hr47 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Maintenance Manager jobs in Michigan and 1,068 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
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- Experience
- Maintenance Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (823 postings).
- Education
- 159 of the 1,068 open Maintenance Manager jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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