Maintenance Manager

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:
Operations Manager

The work model for the role is:
Onsite, Richmond, VA

In this role, you will have the opportunity to leads the factory Maintenance team in the planning and implementation of initiatives that maintain and improve the reliability, effectiveness, and/or efficiency of equipment, technical infrastructure, production lines, and/or facilities. Each day, you will develop and implement equipment life cycle management procedures for optimizing costs and profitability. You will also showcase your expertise by developing and proposing improvement projects for processes and production lines to reduce both ordinary and extraordinary maintenance.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Proposing and managing the annual maintenance budget by monitoring the costs and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources and determining actions to cost issues as necessary.
• Defining maintenance policies and processes that drive maximum efficiency of equipment, production lines, and/or facilities.
• Developing and implementing life cycle management procedures for all new and existing equipment.
• Determining maintenance plans for new production lines and recommends methods to improve reliability, ongoing maintenance, and safety of equipment, in collaboration with the Engineering department.

• Bachelor degree in Electrical engineering (or related technical field) PLUS minimum 5 years of progressive experience in maintenance within a manufacturing setting OR Associate degree in electrical technology (or related technical field) PLUS 7 years related experience OR HS diploma/GED PLUS 9 years related experience.
• You are highly skilled in and you enjoy working with electrical equipment.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and schematics.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness troubleshooting experience
• Demonstrated leadership in maintenance with 3rd party providers.
• FIIX software experience
• SAP experience, preferred
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions.

The Division's ABB Ability Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affimative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

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ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affimative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

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