Maintenance Engineering Manager

Location: Albany, NY

Salary: $ USD Annually – $ USD Annually

Description: Judge Direct Placement is seeking a Maintenance & Engineering Manager in the Albany, NY area! They will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of the company’s equipment and facilities by effectively managing a team of multi-craft technicians, planners, and administration personnel in the implementation and execution of maintenance programs and strategies.

• Lead a plant maintenance team-including planners, parts room coordinators, and multi-craft technicians-in planning and executing machine and system maintenance activities.
• Create and implement maintenance strategies for equipment, process systems, and facilities to improve uptime and reduce overall maintenance costs.
• Partner with plant leadership and operations teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize maintenance needs.
• Perform root cause analyses and failure mode investigations to resolve equipment and production system reliability issues.
• Work with Maintenance and Engineering Management to develop, update, and optimize preventive maintenance procedures and schedules.
• Establish and maintain accurate reliability metrics to monitor performance, track improvements, and ensure long-term sustainability.
• Provide technical guidance to maintenance technicians to support rapid resolution of downtime events and reliability concerns.
• Design and deliver training programs, skill‑progression paths, and development curriculum for maintenance technicians.
• Build and oversee a comprehensive maintenance program aligned with business needs and focused on maximizing equipment performance.
• Enhance existing PM/PdM programs to increase equipment uptime and minimize unplanned outages.
• Use CMMS and data‑analysis tools to support maintenance planning and ensure accurate documentation of equipment performance and maintenance history.
• Supervise maintenance personnel to ensure timely, high-quality completion of work.
• Develop and manage maintenance and MRO budgets, including planning, inventory strategy, and scheduling of maintenance activities.
• Ensure adherence to safety regulations and foster a strong safety culture within the maintenance team.
• Identify and manage requirements for spare parts, supplies, and materials inventory.
• Enforce OSHA safety standards by providing training on proper and safe operating procedures.
• Contribute to the creation of manuals, instructions, and training materials; train staff on new procedures and methods.
• Respond to emergency maintenance situations as needed, including those occurring outside normal working hours.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Reliability Engineering, a related field
• 10 years of equivalent maintenance management experience in an automated industrial setting.
• 5 years experience with industrial controls programming and/or troubleshooting (Allen Bradley/Rockwell preferred)

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