Maintenance Coordinator

Mahle (Austria) · Ramos Arizpe, Mexico

About the role

Your Contribution

As a Maintenance Coordinator - Foundry, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of foundry equipment while leading a team of supervisors, technical support personnel, and maintenance technicians. You will drive a culture of accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence, ensuring maintenance activities effectively support production objectives and plant performance.

  • Lead and develop a maintenance organization consisting of supervisors, technical support personnel, and maintenance technicians.
  • Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of critical foundry equipment, including melting furnaces and related systems.
  • Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to minimize downtime and improve operational efficiency.
  • Drive a strong culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement throughout the maintenance organization.
  • Monitor and improve key maintenance performance indicators such as equipment availability, MTTR, MTBF, and downtime reduction.
  • Support production operations by ensuring timely resolution of equipment issues and effective resource allocation.
  • Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventories, external service providers, and maintenance-related expenditures.
  • Coach and develop supervisors, technicians, and technical staff to build organizational capability and succession plans.
  • Lead root cause analysis activities and implement sustainable corrective actions to improve equipment reliability.
  • Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Plant Leadership teams to achieve business objectives and operational targets.

Your Experience & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience leading maintenance teams within a manufacturing environment.
  • Proven experience supervising supervisors, technicians, or multi-level maintenance organizations.
  • Strong leadership, people development, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Experience driving maintenance KPIs, reliability initiatives, and continuous improvement programs.
  • Solid understanding of industrial maintenance systems, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automation equipment.
  • Experience managing maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, contractors, and external service providers.
  • Exposure to PLC-based equipment and industrial automation systems (Allen Bradley, Siemens, or similar) is preferred.
  • Experience in foundry, metalworking, heavy manufacturing, forging, thermal processing, or similar industrial environments is preferred.

Our Offer

We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities, attractive salary & extensive personal benefits. We encourage you to apply even if you don´t meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

After receiving your online application, the interview process will typically be, a screening call followed by Personal Interview(s).

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