Equipment Maintenance Manager

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, plan and execute Autonomous Maintenance, Preventive, Predictive Maintenance and TPM programme to reduce equipment failures and maintenance costs.
• Lead, manage, and develop the maintenance team, including engineers, supervisors, technicians and contractors. Supervise, train, and mentor team in technical skills, safety practices, and lean methodologies.
• Develop skill matrices for engineers, supervisors, and technicians, establish training and shift mechanisms, organize major-failure emergency response, and strengthen autonomous maintenance and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead root cause analysis and troubleshooting of recurring machine issues, implementing long-term strategy for improvement opportunities.
• Work with external contractors and vendors for specialised maintenance work, major repairs and machines performance improvement
• Develop data-driven maintenance plans and optimize spare parts inventory based on usage trends and failure patterns.Monitor and analyse maintenance-related data to identify trends and opportunities for optimisation.
• Implement and manage machine maintenance and repair procedures to improve maintenance efficiency
• Analyze machine performance data, focusing on Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with company safety standards and applicable regulations. Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with permit-to-work and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Prepare & manage CAPEX, maintenance budgets and inventory control, including procurement of materials, spare parts stock levels and equipment
• Maintain comprehensive maintenance records, equipment logs and documentation for compliance and future reference
• Provide regular reports and performance dashboards to management, highlighting key insights and progress on improvement actions.
• Any other duties as assigned by immediate superior from time to time.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Mechatronics, or related field).
• At least 10 - 15 years of experience in maintenance management, with a proven track record in overseeing complex maintenance operations. & 2-3 years of people management experience
• Solid understanding of semiconductor and automated testing equipment’s, maintenance practices, and machine tool performance.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Able to interpret PLC, engineering drawings, electrical diagrams and OEM technical documentation.
• Must have hands-on Engineering and Maintenance experience in automation manufacturing