Maintenance Manager

The Role

Maintenance Manager | García Plant — Maintenance & Reliability Area
The purpose of this role is to lead the evolution of the Maintenance and Reliability system at García Plant, driving the transformation toward a proactive, digital, and value-oriented organization.
This role directly contributes to business objectives by ensuring the safety, availability, and reliability of assets at the lowest sustainable cost.

What You’ll Do (Key Impact Areas)

• Maintenance Strategy and Transformation: Lead the comprehensive Maintenance and Reliability strategy, ensuring safety, performance, and optimal cost throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Technical Execution and Digitalization: Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies. Strengthen Planning & Scheduling, backlog management, and planned shutdowns. Drive effective use of CMMS/EAM and maintenance digitalization to convert data into actionable decisions.
• Reliability and Continuous Improvement: Apply reliability methodologies such as RCM, RCA, FMEA/FMECA, and criticality analysis. Develop Condition Monitoring and Precision Maintenance capabilities (vibration, thermography, ultrasound, lubrication, and process variables).
• Resource and Budget Management: Strategically manage OPEX, CAPEX, MRO, contractors, and specialized suppliers.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Operations, EHS, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and corporate teams to enhance asset performance.
• Organizational Development: Strengthen supervision, reliability engineering, planning, automation, and technical skills across the maintenance organization.

What Success Looks Like

• Operational KPIs and Performance: Sustainable improvement in Availability, MTBF, MTTR, Maintenance Downtime, PM Compliance, Schedule Compliance, backlog, and maintenance cost.
• Strategic Results: Establish a world-class maintenance organization with planned and predictive processes that increase reliability and asset availability at the lowest sustainable cost.
• Key Behaviors: Act as a trustworthy, data-driven leader promoting safety, disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and cross-functional teamwork.

Core Competencies

• Transformational leadership and strategic vision.
• Systems thinking and technical-financial perspective.
• Analytical capacity and data/risk-based decision-making.
• Execution discipline and focus on results.
• Effective communication and cross-functional influence.
• Talent development and team management.
• Resilience, ethics, and integrity.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electromechanical, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• 12–15 years of progressive experience in industrial maintenance and/or reliability engineering.
• 5–8 years of experience in leadership roles.
• Preferably experienced in continuous processes, heavy manufacturing, metallurgy, mining, chemical, energy, or other high-complexity industrial environments.
• Proven experience transforming maintenance organizations from reactive to preventive and predictive models.
• Advanced knowledge of RCM, RCA, FMEA/FMECA, TPM, asset management, Planning & Scheduling, and Condition Monitoring.
• Proficiency in CMMS/EAM systems (IBM Maximo, SAP PM, Infor, or equivalents).
• Experience managing OPEX/CAPEX budgets, projects, and contractors.
• Familiarity with Asset Management principles under ISO 55000.
• Advanced English.

Work Model and Travel

• Location: García, Nuevo León.
• Work Schedule: Monday – Thursday from 6 am to 4 pm, on Friday 6 am – 12 pm.
• Work Model: On-site at García Plant.
• Travel Frequency: Occasional (for supplier visits or corporate functions).

Our Commitment to You

• Opportunity to lead the transformation toward world-class maintenance standards.
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative work environment.
• Leadership development and technical training programs with high-performance recognition.
• Focus on professional growth, innovation, and continuous learning.

About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). 

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