# Program Manager, Maintenance **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Ashville, Ohio **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $114,000-$152,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5287995007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/program-manager-maintenance-176946c5-603/ ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The Maintenance Program Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining standardized industrial maintenance practices across manufacturing operations. **Responsibilities** ### Maintenance Governance & Standardization - Develop, deploy, and maintain standardized industrial maintenance policies, procedures, and operating practices across manufacturing locations. - Establish minimum requirements for preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance, documentation, and equipment reliability. - Guide local management teams in establishing foundational maintenance practices and organizational disciplines. - Develop and maintain maintenance governance frameworks, including defined roles, responsibilities, accountability, and escalation protocols. - Support consistent implementation of maintenance standards while accommodating program-specific operational requirements. ### Maintenance Auditing & Performance Management - Conduct periodic assessments of local maintenance organizations to evaluate operational maturity, procedural compliance, and organizational effectiveness. - Establish standardized maintenance audit criteria, assessment scorecards, and corrective action tracking. - Evaluate compliance with established maintenance KPIs, including equipment availability, MTTR, MTBF, PM compliance, schedule adherence, and maintenance backlog. - Audit maintenance documentation, equipment records, PM procedures, spare parts practices, and work-order management. - Identify organizational and operational gaps, develop corrective action plans, and monitor progress toward closure. - Establish consistent reporting practices and performance reviews across manufacturing programs. ### Organizational Development & Scalability - Partner with local leadership to assess maintenance staffing requirements based on equipment complexity, asset criticality, production demands, and operational maturity. - Support the development of scalable maintenance organizational structures aligned with business growth. - Establish standardized maintenance roles, responsibilities, and technical competency expectations. - Assist local management teams with workforce planning, organizational readiness, and resource allocation. - Develop maintenance organizational maturity models and deployment roadmaps for new and expanding manufacturing operations. - Support maintenance readiness assessments during new equipment installations, production ramp-ups, and facility expansions. ### Training, Competency Development & Career Pathing - Develop standardized technical training frameworks and competency matrices for maintenance personnel. - Establish skill requirements and proficiency expectations across maintenance technician, specialist, and leadership positions. - Partner with local management and training organizations to identify technical capability gaps and establish development plans. - Develop structured career progression pathways, including technician advancement, specialization, and leadership development. - Support technical onboarding, qualification, and certification programs. - Establish mechanisms to evaluate training effectiveness and verify demonstrated technical competency. - Promote knowledge sharing and technical best practices across manufacturing locations. ### Maintenance Systems & Process Development - Support the implementation and standardization of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS). - Establish requirements for asset hierarchies, equipment master data, maintenance plans, work-order documentation, and maintenance history. - Develop standardized processes for spare parts management, inventory controls, equipment criticality, and single-point-of-failure assessments. - Support the development of preventive and predictive maintenance programs based on equipment risk and operational requirements. - Establish maintenance documentation standards, including OEM manuals, technical procedures, equipment records, and maintenance instructions. - Partner with site teams to improve planning, scheduling, and maintenance execution. ### Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence - Identify systemic maintenance performance gaps and coordinate improvement initiatives across manufacturing operations. - Promote reliability-centered maintenance principles and data-driven maintenance decision-making. - Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and root cause analysis for recurring equipment failures. - Support implementation of Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and other operational excellence methodologies. - Establish mechanisms for sharing lessons learned, proven practices, and technical improvements across sites. - Track improvement initiatives and quantify their impact on equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and maintenance effectiveness. ### Stakeholder Engagement & Program Execution - Serve as a central point of coordination between corporate maintenance leadership and local manufacturing organizations. - Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, EHS, Procurement, and business leaders to align maintenance capabilities with operational requirements. - Support the definition and deployment of maintenance service-level agreements (SLAs), performance expectations, and accountability structures. - Maintain program-level implementation plans, milestones, ownership assignments, and progress reporting. - Communicate organizational risks, capability gaps, and improvement opportunities to maintenance leadership. - Drive execution through influence, collaboration, and structured follow-up across geographically distributed teams. **Requirements** - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience considered. - 7+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, manufacturing engineering, equipment reliability, or maintenance operations. - Demonstrated experience developing or improving maintenance processes within complex manufacturing environments. - Strong understanding of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, reliability engineering, and maintenance performance metrics. - Experience with CMMS platforms, maintenance documentation, and work-order management. - Experience assessing maintenance organizational effectiveness and identifying operational improvement opportunities. - Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills. - Ability to influence local management teams and drive standardization without direct reporting authority. - Ability to travel to manufacturing locations as business needs require. **Benefits** - Highly competitive equity grants - Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - industrial maintenance - manufacturing engineering - equipment reliability - maintenance operations - CMMS platforms - maintenance documentation - work-order management ### Nice to have - Lean Manufacturing - Total Productive Maintenance - Six Sigma - reliability-centered maintenance - automated manufacturing equipment - robotics - industrial controls - complex electromechanical systems --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5287995007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)