Maintenance Manager

Position:
Maintenance Manager – Manufacturing Operations

Company: American Bath Group (ABG)

Reports To: Plant Manager

American Bath Group (ABG) is a leading North American manufacturer of bathware products serving residential, multifamily, hospitality, and e-commerce channels. ABG operates more than 35 manufacturing facilities and 15 distribution locations across North America and is a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners.

ABG operates with a founder-led, execution-driven culture built around measurable performance, operational accountability, and disciplined growth.

At the plant level, leaders are given:

• Real authority and ownership
• Direct visibility into performance outcomes
• Exposure to multi-line manufacturing operations
• Advancement pathways across a multi-plant network

This is a performance environment. Leaders who deliver results are given runway.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for building, stabilizing, and advancing a reliability-centered maintenance function that directly impacts plant uptime, throughput, safety, and cost control.

This is a Builder–Operator role.

The plant runs.

The maintenance structure must mature.

This leader will transition the department from reactive firefighting to structured, preventive, data-driven execution — embedding accountability, planning discipline, and technical leadership into daily operations.

This is not a facilities role.

This is operational ownership of equipment reliability and production continuity.

Within 12–18 months, this leader must:

• Increase planned vs. reactive maintenance ratio
• Improve equipment uptime and reduce unplanned downtime
• Implement structured preventive maintenance scheduling
• Establish CMMS discipline and data integrity
• Improve response time to critical breakdowns
• Strengthen parts inventory control and cost management
• Build a stable, skilled maintenance team with clear accountability
• Improve cross-functional coordination between Maintenance and Production

Success equals reliability + predictability + cost control + team stability.

Year one critical success factors include:

• Establish daily maintenance planning rhythm
• Reduce chronic repeat failures
• Improve breakdown response structure
• Improve PM compliance rate

• Move from reactive to structured preventive planning
• Build asset-level maintenance schedules
• Improve root cause problem-solving rigor
• Implement downtime tracking and visibility

• Drive CMMS adoption and data accuracy
• Improve spare parts management and inventory controls
• Develop frontline technicians
• Create skill redundancy and cross-training
• Lead with visible floor presence
• Enforce safety and compliance discipline
• Hold clear performance expectations and accountability

• Not a facilities-only maintenance role
• Not a “call the vendor” coordinator position
• Not a theoretical reliability engineer disconnected from the floor
• Not a desk-only planner
• Not a leader who tolerates reactive chaos

This role fails when maintenance remains reactive, data is ignored, or performance conversations are avoided.

Behavioral Profile:

• Floor-present and technically credible
• Calm under production pressure
• Structured and systems-oriented
• Direct and clear communicator
• Low ego, high accountability
• Data-driven and metrics-aware
• Willing to escalates appropriately

Operating Tempo:

• Daily maintenance planning meetings
• PM compliance tracking
• Immediate correction of repeat failures
• Structured coordination with Production
• Clear communication of downtime impact

• Maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing
• Direct supervision of hourly maintenance technicians
• Experience improving uptime and reducing downtime
• Preventive maintenance program implementation
• CMMS experience
• Mechanical and electrical troubleshooting knowledge

• Multi-shift maintenance leadership
• PLC troubleshooting exposure
• Root cause analysis tools (5 Whys, Fishbone)
• Budget management responsibility
  
  Lean or reliability improvement exposure

• Full plant P&L ownership
• Multi-site leadership
• Bathware industry experience…