Facilities Maintenance Manager

Overview

Element Materials Technology is seeking a Facilities Maintenance Manager to oversee planned and unplanned maintenance activities across our South Windsor testing facility. This role supports our Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection (FPI), Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI), Ultrasonic Testing (UT/IUT), and chemical etching operations.

The Facilities Maintenance Manager will lead a small maintenance team, coordinate external vendors and contractors, and work closely with department supervisors and key stakeholders to maintain safe, reliable, and efficient facility operations. A key expectation of this role is to improve equipment uptime and reliability by developing and executing effective preventive maintenance programs, reducing unplanned equipment failures, and minimizing production downtime through proactive maintenance planning.

This position reports directly to the General Manager.

Salary: $80,000- $90,000/yr DOE

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Management: Plan, coordinate, and oversee preventive, scheduled, and emergency maintenance across facility equipment, testing cells, and infrastructure.
• Team Leadership: Manage and support a small maintenance team, prioritizing workloads and ensuring timely completion of maintenance activities.
• Vendor Coordination: Schedule and coordinate outside contractors, service providers, and equipment vendors, including onsite support, repairs, and service visits.
• Facility Systems: Support facility infrastructure and troubleshoot maintenance issues involving equipment, utilities, and building systems.
• Safety and Compliance: Follow established safety procedures when working around or handling hazardous materials. Complete required training and ensure compliance with applicable facility safety requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with department supervisors, operations personnel, and other stakeholders to prioritize maintenance needs and minimize production downtime.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring maintenance issues, improve preventive maintenance practices, and implement solutions to improve equipment reliability and facility performance.

Skills / Qualifications

• Experience in facilities maintenance, industrial maintenance, equipment maintenance, or a related field.
• Experience leading or coordinating a maintenance team is preferred.
• Strong organizational, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with electrical systems, plumbing, and HVAC systems is highly desirable.
• Experience coordinating contractors, vendors, and outside service providers.
• Ability to prioritize planned maintenance while responding effectively to urgent repair needs.
• Ability to work safely around industrial equipment and hazardous materials; required training will be provided.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with supervisors, employees, and management.
• Ability to work in an industrial testing and chemical processing environment.

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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