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Maintenance Manager

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Hybrid
Houston, TX
Senior level
Hybrid
Houston, TX
Senior level
Leads maintenance operations for a fulfillment center, managing technicians and maintenance area leadership. Oversees preventative and reactive repairs, equipment reliability, downtime response, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, capital projects, procurement, budgets, vendor performance, and KPI measurement. Requires extensive experience leading warehouse or factory maintenance teams and working with material handling equipment. Schedule flexibility, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and travel as needed are required.
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Job Description

Chewy is seeking a Maintenance Manager at our Houston, TX. Fulfillment Center! We are looking for someone to lead a Maintenance Team responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of general warehouse assets and production equipment such as conveyor systems, industrial automation systems, inventory storage solutions, and powered industrial trucks. In this role you will coordinate the management of a team of technicians, directly handle a minimum of one Maintenance Area Manager, partner closely with Chewy Operations and other customer teams, and leverage third-party vendors for outstanding maintenance work! If this sounds like you, are you ready to join the Pack?
What you'll do:
  • Command a team responsible for the reliability and performance of general warehouse assets and production equipment in an e-commerce fulfillment center.
  • Apply data to measure and grade the performance of your team.
  • Handle high severity downtime events and lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  • Lead preventative and reactive equipment repairs.
  • Influence continuous improvement projects that target key performance indicators such as injury rates, equipment uptime, mean time to repair, and system capacity.
  • Initiate Capital Expenditure projects in support of high-level building and network projects.
  • Direct maintenance procurement activities, coordinating expenses to ensure metrics are met or exceeded within the prescribed budget.
  • Partner with internal and external Team Members to achieve business objectives and observe third party vendors performing work for Chewy.

What you'll need:
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience leading maintenance or operations teams in a warehouse or factory.
  • 5+ years of experience working with material handling equipment such as conveyors and powered industrial trucks.
  • Experience using information systems and data to measure and improve key performance indicators.
  • Ability to provide a high level of customer service to a variety of cross-functional partners.
  • Ability to simultaneously support multiple high priority projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to work a schedule that may include weekends, nights, and holidays.
  • Ability to travel as needed.

Bonus:
  • Master's Degree.
  • Experience maintaining electromechanical material handling systems.
  • Experience maintaining industrial control systems.
  • Experience maintaining electrical systems.
  • Competence using a computerized maintenance management system.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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