Senior Manager, Plant Maintenance

Job Description
BASIC FUNCTION OF THE JOB:
Lead a high-performing Plant Maintenance organization to ensure the reliability, availability, safety, compliance, and optimal performance of all manufacturing equipment, automated production systems, utilities, facilities, and plant infrastructure at AO VSIP 1.
Provide strategic leadership for Equipment Maintenance and Facilities teams to drive asset reliability, business continuity, and operational excellence.
Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), lifecycle management, spare parts optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives to maximize equipment uptime and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
Modernize maintenance capabilities by adopting advanced technologies, automation, digitalization, AI-enabled predictive maintenance, smart diagnostics, and condition monitoring.
Build and develop team capabilities to support increasingly advanced manufacturing technologies and align maintenance practices with industry best practices.
Collaborate closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, contractors, equipment service providers, and suppliers to proactively manage asset risks, infrastructure readiness, technology upgrades, and long-term asset replacement strategies.
Build a scalable, future-ready maintenance organization that supports safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable operations while enabling business expansion, long-term growth, and manufacturing excellence
Leadership, Supervision & Organization Development
Build, lead, coach, and develop the Equipment Maintenance and Facilities teams to deliver stable and sustainable performance.
Ensure the maintenance organization is adequately staffed, trained, engaged, and empowered to maintain production equipment, utilities, facilities, and critical plant systems.
Execute performance management, employee development, succession planning, recruitment, coaching, and communication activities effectively and on schedule.
Foster a culture of open communication, accountability, safety, quality ownership, customer focus, and employee engagement.
Maintain clean, safe, and organized work areas while serving as a role model for ethics, professionalism, leadership, technical competence, and business performance.
Business Operations, Budget & Governance
Prepare and manage annual budgets for maintenance, spare parts, utilities, facility services, projects, and equipment replacement or upgrades.
Establish and monitor department KPIs, including OEE, equipment uptime, MTBF, MTTR, preventive maintenance (PM) compliance, utility availability, maintenance cost, energy consumption, and project delivery.
Ensure maintenance records, reports, performance metrics, and documentation are accurate, controlled, and submitted on time.
Ensure maintenance and facilities processes comply with ISO 9001, ISO 13485 (where applicable), ITAR/Export Compliance, SOX, Quality, EHS, and corporate procedures.
Review and continuously improve maintenance processes using Lean, Six Sigma, Process Value Chain, and continuous improvement methodologies to increase efficiency and reduce cycle time.
Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance & Reliability
Lead day-to-day maintenance activities for all manufacturing equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations with minimal downtime.
Develop, implement, and sustain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs for production equipment, automation systems, and supporting equipment.
Drive equipment reliability improvements using Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), MTBF, MTTR, OEE analysis, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), risk assessment, 5 Whys, and permanent corrective actions.
Optimize maintenance planning, work scheduling, maintenance system utilization, repair quality, and maintenance execution effectiveness.
Develop and implement spare parts strategies to ensure the availability of critical components while minimizing excess inventory and overstock.
Support new equipment selection, installation, qualification, handover, upgrades, capacity expansion, and equipment lifecycle replacement planning.
Facilities, Utilities & Site Infrastructure Management
Design, maintain, repair, and improve plant facilities, building infrastructure, utility systems, and production support equipment.
Ensure reliable operation of HVAC, chillers, cleanrooms, air compressors, vacuum systems, RO/DI water systems, wastewater treatment, HT/LT electrical systems, fire protection, BMS, and SCADA systems.
Maintain required environmental and utility conditions, including temperature, humidity, water quality, compressed air, vacuum, electrical power, fire safety, and environmental controls for production areas.
Manage contractors, vendors, consultants, and service providers for equipment installation, relocation, modification, preventive maintenance, calibration, inspection, and handover activities.
Ensure contractor work complies with technical specifications, building codes, safety requirements, manufacturer guidelines, statutory regulations, and approved schedules.
Maintain system documentation, operating procedures, work instructions, calibration schedules, shutdown checklists, security support, and housekeeping standards.
Educational Background
: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Automation, Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
Working Experience
10+ years of experience in maintenance, engineering, facilities, or a manufacturing support environment.
5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or maintenance organizations.
Experience in regulated manufacturing and cleanroom operations.
Experience managing utility systems, facility infrastructure, and production equipment.
Proven experience leading capital projects and managing contractors.
Strong knowledge of automation, PLCs, programming, and current industry best practices/market benchmarks.
About Us
Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us!
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