What a Maintenance Manager Does

Last updated: 2025-04-23

The Maintenance Manager ensures the upkeep of assets, machinery, equipment, the workplace, and other work equipment. They are responsible for ensuring that equipment is regularly maintained.

What a Maintenance Manager Does

Maintenance Manager Job Description

Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Organization

  • Creating and updating preventive maintenance plans for machinery, equipment, and buildings
  • Ensuring regular inspections, servicing, and overhauls of equipment
  • Coordinating planned shutdowns and maintenance windows

Operational Troubleshooting and Emergency Response

  • Quick response to breakdowns, troubleshooting and diagnostics
  • Organizing repairs, communicating with production and other departments
  • Maintaining records of faults and interventions

Maintenance System and Documentation Management

  • Maintaining technical operational documentation, equipment plans, and inspection reports
  • Ensuring records of interventions and equipment history

Ensuring Safety and Compliance with Regulations and Legal Requirements

  • Adhering to Health and Safety (H&S), fire, and environmental regulations in maintenance
  • Preparing for and participating in inspections and audits
  • Fulfilling legal obligations in the field of technical maintenance

Spare Parts and Material Management

  • Managing spare parts inventory
  • Cooperating with purchasing in ordering and selecting suppliers
  • Optimizing consumption and costs

Optimization, Analyses, Reports and Optimization

  • Maintaining statistics on equipment failure rates and availability
  • Evaluating maintenance effectiveness (e.g., OEE, MTTR, MTBF)
  • Suggesting process improvements and cost optimization

Maintenance Team Management

  • Leading a team of technicians, electricians, locksmiths, and other maintenance workers
  • Assigning tasks, scheduling shifts and capacity
  • Training, evaluating, and developing subordinates

How Aptien Helps Maintenance Managers in Their Work

  • Aptien, as asset management software, simplifies your work as a maintenance manager in one place and in one environment.

Maintenance Schedule Planning

Maintaining an Overview of Completed Asset Maintenance

Team and Maintenance Staff Management

Managing External Maintenance Technicians

  • The maintenance manager manages the work of external technicians using an extranet