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Maintenance Superintendent
Our client, a global automotive industry leading supplier is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent to lead maintenance activities at its manufacturing plant in Puebla. With more than 600 pieces of equipment, the operation requires a hands-on leader who can build a strong maintenance team, improve equipment reliability, and support uninterrupted production in a Just-in-Time/Just-in-Sequence (JIT/JIS) environment.
Leadership and team development are key priorities for this position, alongside technical experience with cutting and sewing equipment, and facilities maintenance.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Experience
Leadership and team development are key priorities for this position, alongside technical experience with cutting and sewing equipment, and facilities maintenance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance team, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and effective support across shifts.
- Manage preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for production equipment and plant facilities.
- Maintain the reliability of conveyor systems, seating assembly equipment, torque-controlled fastening tools, torque measurement systems, industrial sewing machines, and Lectra cutting machines.
- Respond quickly to equipment failures, coordinating troubleshooting and recovery to minimize disruption to JIT/JIS production and customer deliveries.
- Drive root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions to reduce recurring failures, downtime, and maintenance costs.
- Coordinate maintenance of building infrastructure, utilities, and support systems, including electrical distribution, compressed air, HVAC, and fire protection.
- Manage maintenance schedules, spare parts, critical equipment inventories, contractors, and departmental spending.
- Track equipment availability, preventive maintenance compliance, mean time between failures (MTBF), and mean time to repair (MTTR).
- Partner with Production, Engineering, Quality, and EHS on equipment improvements, new installations, launches, and safe maintenance practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electromechanical, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven maintenance leadership experience in automotive manufacturing, preferably in cut &sew operations with JIT/JIS delivery requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, develop supervisors and technicians, and manage priorities under production pressure.
- Hands-on knowledge of:
- Conveyor systems and automotive assembly equipment.
- Torque-controlled fastening, torque verification, and related measurement systems.
- Industrial sewing machines and Lectra cutting equipment.
- Facilities maintenance and industrial utilities.
- Experience managing a large equipment base, maintenance planning, spare parts, and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, with working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, and automation systems.
- Ability to work across departments and communicate clearly during equipment failures and production recovery.
Preferred Experience
- Combined experience in JIT/JIS assembly and soft trim cutting and sewing operations.
- Maintenance responsibility for a similarly sized operation with hundreds of pieces of equipment.
- Experience implementing TPM, reliability improvements, and structured technician development programs.