Technical Manager - Maintenance & Tooling

Looking to take on a leadership role? Join our team as the Technical Manager, leading both Plant Maintenance and Die Maintenance across our two-plant Valley City campus. This position is responsible for ensuring safety excellence, equipment reliability, and precision tooling performance in a high-volume automotive environment producing tailor-welded blanks. The Technical Manager provides leadership and direction to a team of approximately 30 skilled trades employees, including maintenance technicians and tooling specialists, while fostering collaboration with Production, Quality, and Engineering. This role is critical to delivering uptime, quality, and continuous improvement while living out the TWB Philosophy.

Responsibilities

• Lead with safety : Champion LOTO compliance, NFPA 70E / arc-flash standards, and Class 4 laser safety in partnership with EHS.
• Oversee daily maintenance and tooling operations across both plants, ensuring coverage for a three-shift / five-day schedule and engagement after hours as needed.
• Drive equipment reliability : Improve press and laser cell availability, reduce unplanned downtime, and ensure PM compliance and backlog health.
• Manage die readiness for changeovers, enforce preventive maintenance intervals, and maintain dimensional capability for weld integrity and TWB first-pass yield.
• Plan and schedule maintenance activities, including plant shutdowns and contractor coordination; support installation / commissioning and project execution.
• Monitor and influence R&M performance and MRO inventory (including critical spares) to support uptime.
• Develop and mentor team members-including leads and apprentices-to build technical depth and leadership capability.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Quality to support continuous improvement initiatives, SMED, and root cause analysis; ensure clear communication across shifts and departments.
• Maintain accurate CMMS data (work orders, failure codes, BOMs) and ensure effective use of reliability tools and processes.

Desired Experience

Work Model

Our Philosophy

TWB values people, collaboration, and operational excellence. This position is critical to driving technical leadership and cultural transformation within our plant. We are looking for a maintenance minded leader who can inspire, execute, and develop a world-class team.