Job Ref: # 6256870
Date Posted: 8/27/2026
Location: Buena Park, California
Salary (USD): $110 - $130
Description
The Facilities & Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance and facilities function for a fast-paced aerospace manufacturing operation. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for equipment reliability, facility systems, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, team development, contractors, and maintenance planning.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- 5+ years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
- Previous leadership experience managing maintenance, facilities, electrical, or mechanical technicians
- Working knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, drives, sensors, and industrial controls
- Experience troubleshooting and repairing production equipment in an active manufacturing environment
- Proven experience developing and managing preventive maintenance programs
- Ability to diagnose equipment failures and perform root-cause analysis
- Experience managing maintenance priorities, contractors, vendors, and service providers
- Ability to read and interpret schematics, equipment manuals, drawings, and technical documentation
- Experience with a CMMS, work-order, or maintenance tracking system
Nice-to-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Experience with CNC equipment such as Haas, Doosan, Brother, or similar
- Experience with die-casting, foundry, furnace, trim-press, or heavy industrial equipment
- PLC, motor controls, VFD, sensors, and electrical controls troubleshooting
- Facilities experience with HVAC, compressed air, ventilation, plumbing, cooling, and utilities
- Welding, fabrication, rigging, equipment installation, relocation, or commissioning experience
- Experience managing spare parts inventories and capital improvement projects
- Knowledge of LOTO, machine guarding, electrical safety, hot work, and contractor safety
- Trade school, apprenticeship, military technical training, industry certification, or associate/bachelor's degree
Responsibilities
- Lead, schedule, coach, and develop the maintenance and facilities team
- Troubleshoot and repair CNC, die-casting, presses, and other manufacturing equipment
- Manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime
- Oversee facility systems, utilities, contractors, vendors, and service providers
- Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts, service contracts, and capital projects
- Track downtime, PM completion, repeat failures, maintenance costs, and other KPIs
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and EHS to support production and maintain a safe workplace
Work Environment
Hands-on manufacturing environment requiring regular walking, standing, climbing, bending, kneeling, and working around industrial machinery. Ability to use hand tools, power tools, meters, and diagnostic equipment and lift/carry materials up to 50 lbs. PPE is required.
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