
Maintenance Manager
Evonik · Lafayette, IN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A management reliability role at Evonik (chemicals) in Lafayette, IN.
- They ask for
- 15+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- SAP
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
How this role compares
Against 21 other live reliability postings in Indiana.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 5+)
Typical $121k–$154k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 59%
- Root cause 23%
- Lean 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
Pulled from the posting text. If it's not listed here, the posting didn't say.
How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Reliability team at Evonik
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: Evonik in Lafayette
7 other open roles at this site.
- Senior Process Engineer · Process · Senior
- Maintenance Electrician · Reliability · Technician
- Process Engineer · Process
- Principal Process Engineer · Process · Senior
- Utilities Plant Engineer · Production
- Senior Automation Engineer - SIS · Controls · Senior
Full description from EvonikAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Lead the Maintenance organization through workforce and workload planning, performance management, coaching, succession planning, employee development, and alignment to shared objectives.
- ◆Develop and execute short-, mid-, and long-term maintenance strategies aligned with site, business line, customer, asset, and investment priorities, while overseeing preventive, corrective, emergency, and project maintenance for safe, reliable, high-quality 24/7 operations.
- ◆Drive equipment reliability, mechanical integrity, troubleshooting, system improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce cost and increase productivity.
- ◆Ensure maintenance activities meet cGMP, engineering standards, ESHS requirements, company policies, documentation practices, and inspection-readiness expectations, while reinforcing a strong safety culture through contractor safety, training, hazard reporting, PPE, and safe work practices.
- ◆Manage maintenance operating budgets, expense and capital plans, headcount, contracts, material purchases, schedules, quality, and plant operability within delegated authority.
- ◆Oversee maintenance and construction contractors and vendor relationships, ensuring external resources meet safety, quality, cost, service, and performance expectations.
- ◆Monitor and act on KPIs—including preventive maintenance completion, emergency response, training, overtime, spending, compliance actions, and service delivery—and partner with Production, Laboratories, Utilities, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Purchasing, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve equipment and documentation issues and meet customer needs.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in an applicable engineering discipline with at least seven years of maintenance experience preferred; 15 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the degree and experience combination.
- ✓10 years of supervisory experience preferred—preferably leading a large manufacturing organization with 24/7 shift coverage.
- ✓10 years of experience in a cGMP-regulated environment preferred.
- ✓Demonstrated leadership and managerial capability in coaching, performance management, succession planning, workload management, employee development, and aligning teams to shared objectives.
- ✓Broad knowledge of plant design, production operations, maintenance and project management, equipment reliability, mechanical integrity, and applicable policies and standards.
- ✓Proven ability to analyze problems, troubleshoot equipment and systems, resolve issues proactively and reactively, and deliver continuous improvement results.
- ✓Strong interpersonal, influencing, conflict-resolution, cross-functional collaboration, oral and written communication skills, with close attention to detail and disciplined documentation practices.
- ✓Strong working knowledge of SAP, performance metrics, planning tools, and maintenance systems, plus experience managing contractors, budgets, capital and expense plans, and customer service priorities in a safe, compliant manufacturing environment; prior department experience is preferred.
Your Application
To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal . Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html .
Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Show full description ↓Show less ↑
What we offer
At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.
Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!
Find out more about the many benefits we offer
https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html
Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik
https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html
Supervises activities of maintenance supervisors within a single service department on multiple shifts to ensure the effective, timely provisions of quality services. Maintenance activities can range from janitorial, caretaker, manual maintenance work, carpentry, painting and plumbing.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager
Aaron Mroczkowski [C], Emma Martinez [C]
Company is
Evonik Corporation
