Manager Maintenance at Caterpillar in Mapleton, IL

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Career Area: Manufacturing Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. Your Work Shapes the World Whether it is groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With 100 years of legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce, Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customers’ needs. Join us. The Mapleton Foundry is one of the largest in the United States and home to the largest core making machine in the world! Working at the foundry is hard work that demands focus and safety, quality, and commitment to helping our customers build a better world. With over 800 employees at the foundry, we are looking for someone who can support process development projects for the continuous improvement of safety, quality, velocity and cost of manufacturing. Role Definition: This position is responsible for providing leadership to a multi-skilled maintenance workforce, driving a culture of safety, accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement while ensuring maintenance execution supports foundry production objectives and business performance goals. What you will do: · Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities across the foundry, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment and facilities. · Develop, prioritize, and coordinate work plans for maintenance employees and contractors, ensuring maintenance activities are executed effectively and aligned with production requirements. · Review, audit, and validate maintenance work performed by technicians and contractors to ensure quality workmanship, adherence to standards, and effective resolution of equipment issues. · Drive daily maintenance execution by providing direction, coaching, and oversight to off-shift Section Managers, ensuring leadership expectations, priorities, and business objectives are consistently communicated and achieved across all shifts. · Monitor and improve key maintenance performance metrics, including safety performance, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, equipment availability, asset reliability, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), backlog management, and departmental goals. · Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities for equipment failures, implementing corrective actions that improve reliability and reduce unplanned downtime. · Promote and enforce a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all company, regulatory, and environmental requirements, including lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined space, hot work, and contractor safety procedures. · Manage maintenance resources, including labor, tools, equipment, contractor services, spare parts, and inventory, while ensuring resources are available to support operational needs. · Oversee maintenance budgeting and cost management activities, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize spending, and reduce maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability. · Ensure completion of required employee