Job Description

Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour

Job description:

Job Summary

The Assistant Maintenance Manager supports the Maintenance Manager in leading day-to-day maintenance operations, facilities upkeep, equipment reliability, preventive maintenance execution, safety compliance, and continuous improvement within a fast-paced distribution center environment. This role provides front-line leadership to maintenance supervisors, leads, technicians, vendors, and support partners to ensure material handling equipment, building systems, utilities, grounds, and related assets operate safely, efficiently, and reliably. The Assistant Maintenance Manager helps drive work order completion, CMMS accuracy, downtime reduction, technician development, and timely response to operational maintenance needs.

Responsibilities

• Support preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for material handling equipment, conveyors, automation, dock equipment, building systems, utilities, grounds, and other facility assets. Coordinate daily priorities, assign work, monitor completion, and escalate equipment or building issues as needed.
• Monitor CMMS activity, downtime reports, PM compliance, parts usage, and KPI trends to identify recurring issues, support root-cause analysis, improve maintenance standards, and recommend corrective actions to the Maintenance Manager.
• Coach, train, and support maintenance leads, technicians, CMMS coordinators, and assigned team members. Help reinforce expectations, support shift coverage, assist with performance feedback, and build technical capability through hands-on development and cross-training.
• Reinforce a safe, compliant, and audit-ready work environment by supporting OSHA, company safety standards, lockout/tagout, hot work, powered industrial equipment, contractor safety, housekeeping, and ergonomic practices. Assist with inspections, hazard follow-up, corrective actions, and safety communication.
• Support vendor coordination, parts inventory, service requests, repair priorities, project execution, and maintenance reporting. Provide clear updates to the Maintenance Manager.

Experience

• 3+ years of progressive maintenance, facilities, reliability, manufacturing, distribution center, automated warehousing, or similar industrial maintenance experience.
• 1+ year of lead, supervisory, project coordination, or shift leadership experience preferred, including experience guiding maintenance technicians, contractors, vendors, or cross-functional work groups.
• Experience using a CMMS, completing or coordinating preventive maintenance tasks, troubleshooting equipment issues, supporting spare parts control, and documenting work activity preferred.

Pay & Benefits

• $40-50/hr
• 401k Match
• Annual Bonuses
• Stock Guarantees

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance

Work Location: In person