

Maintenance Manager $125-140k/year
Aerotek
Posted Friday, January 16, 2026
Posting ID: JP-005773782
Job Title: Maintenance Manager $125-140k/year
WILL OFFER RELOCATION
Job Description
The Maintenance Manager will oversee and manage all maintenance activities and projects to ensure minimal business disruptions and optimal resource utilization. The role involves defining and implementing maintenance procedures and standards, while ensuring compliance with relevant policies and regulations.
Responsibilities
- Plan, prioritize, schedule, and manage maintenance activities and projects to address breakdowns and malfunctions.
- Define and implement maintenance procedures and standards.
- Monitor the cost-effectiveness of activities to optimize resources, prioritize spending, and achieve reliability and safety standards.
- Plan and monitor equipment maintenance on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend new maintenance equipment and tools to enhance team capabilities.
- Ensure maintenance tools and devices are kept and maintained orderly.
- Participate in the implementation and integration of safety procedures in maintenance activities.
- Ensure compliance with standards and relevant policies and regulations.
- Prepare work orders and monitor progress against estimates.
- Evaluate, select, and manage contractor relationships to minimize costs and ensure satisfactory service standards.
- Liaise with managers throughout the organization to coordinate scheduled maintenance activities with their operations.
- Monitor employee performance, ensuring proper training and cross-training.
- Administer personnel functions, including recruiting, job description reviews, salary classifications, and personnel selection and placement.
Essential Skills
- Maintenance management experience.
- Proficiency with SAP.
- Leadership and supervision skills.
- Troubleshooting capabilities.
- Experience as a maintenance technician.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Excellent command of both oral and written local language and English.
- Good command of an additional language is beneficial.
- 4 to 7 years of experience in maintenance management.
- Prior experience in a supervisory position.
Why Work Here?
Enjoy great benefits and a robust 401k plan, making this opportunity both rewarding and financially secure.
Work Environment
The role is based in a plant yard environment within a mineral plant. The conditions can be cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Wathena, KS.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $125000.00 - $140000.00/yr.
Health Dental Vision 401k
Workplace TypeThis is a fully onsite position in Wathena,KS.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Jan 30, 2026.
About Aerotek:
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.