Facility Technical Maintenance Manager
Worksite Location: South Bend, IN
Salary: $130-180/yr base salary plus annual bonus
Benefits: Comprehensive benefit offerings to include medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, accident insurance, and 401(k) with company match
Roles & Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy
- Manage, mentor, and develop site engineers and technical staff.
- Participate in plant strategy, planning, and improvement initiatives.
- Support site culture focused on safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a key advisor to the Plant Manager and a member of the site leadership team.
- Lead chemical process improvement, troubleshooting, and manufacturing support to maintain and improve production consistency, safety, and throughput.
- Implement process controls, standard operating procedures, and best practices across product lines.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise to resolve issues and optimize unit operations.
- Support R&D and Commercial teams with new product trials, scale-ups, and customer applications.
- Provide technical support to Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service for product inquiries and customer satisfaction.
- Work closely with the Plant Engineer and Maintenance team to improve equipment reliability and uptime.
- Support root cause failure analysis and corrective action programs.
- Guide preventative and predictive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime.
- Identify opportunities to improve technician skills, maintenance planning, and contractor utilization.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field required.
- 5+ years of process engineering, operations, or technical leadership experience in manufacturing; composites, polymer, chemical, or batch processing strongly preferred.
- 3 + years proven project management and process improvement experience.
- Strong mechanical/equipment troubleshooting capability.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
About Versique
Versique: /ver-seek/?adj. being both versatile and unique; n. a high-performance recruiting firm specializing in executive leadership search, direct hire, and interim hiring solutions.?
Versique Executive, Professional, & Interim Recruiting is a locally owned and operated hiring and placement firm based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. With specialized practice areas across our three divisions, Versique delivers tailored expertise to a wide range of industries. What sets us apart is our team of recruiters—seasoned professionals who have worked in the very fields they now hire for, providing unmatched industry insight and connections.
We believe people are more than resumes—they are transformative, unlocking the potential for organizational growth and success.
Versique is proud to be an award-winning company, earning recognition on the?Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and the?Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal's Fast 50 list for 2023. We are also consistently recognized as a?Star Tribune Top Workplace and were named a?Best Place to Work in 2022 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
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Versique is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.
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