Job DescriptionEssential Responsibilities

• Safety & Compliance: Ensure site compliance with local, state, federal, and corporate EHS requirements; manage permits, inspections, and corrective actions; champion LOTO, machine guarding, confined space, and electrical safety; lead incident investigations and root cause analysis. Ensure that all compliance standards are maintained, and regulatory maintenance is executed.

• Maintenance Strategy: Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs (PM/ PdM) from concept to completion to reduce equipment breakdowns; maintain critical spares strategy; manage asset lifecycle planning, equipment availability improvements, and uptime targets.

• Facilities Management: Oversee building/grounds, utilities (HVAC, compressed air, water, steam, power), and site services; manage janitorial, landscaping, waste/recycling, snow removal, and space planning.

• Utilities & Energy: Monitor and optimize energy usage; lead utility cost reduction, demand management, and sustainability initiatives; coordinate shutdowns and start-ups safely and efficiently; promote and implement energy cost saving projects

• Work Planning & Execution: Lead planning and scheduling (weekly work plans, backlog control); manage work orders, PM compliance, and execution quality; ensure effective use of CMMS.

• Budget & Cost Control: Forecast and manage OPEX/CAPEX budgets and monitor throughout the year (OCPH & CAR).; track spend against plan; develop business cases for upgrades; support technical negotiation of vendor contracts; drive maintenance costs per asset while sustaining availability.

• Contractors & Vendors Management: source, qualify, and manage service providers; enforce safety and quality standards; coordinate onsite work permits and supervision; ensure on-time delivery of services.

• Continuous Improvement: apply FLIGHT DECK tools (5S, TPM, standard work, visual management, Kaizen) to reduce downtime, improve MTBF/MTTR, and increase schedule adherence; implement availability engineering practices and RCAs.

• Asset Data & Documentation: maintain accurate asset registry, drawings, SOPs, PM task lists, and compliance records; ensure CMMS data integrity and reporting.

• People Leadership: lead and develop the facility & maintenance team setting specific goals, coach performance, build skills (electrical, mechanical, controls, HVAC), and foster a safety-first, customer-driven culture.

• Stakeholder Support: partner with Operations and Quality for planned outages, new equipment installation, and process changes; support NPI and capacity expansions; communicate status, risks, and recovery plans

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.

• Proven experience in Facilities Management in a complex plant environment and in a matrix organization

• CMMS (e.g., Maximo, SAP PM, etc.), MS Office/Excel, maintenance planning & scheduling, reliability analytics, contractor management.

• Experience with TPM, Kaizen, RCA, FMEA, and condition-based maintenance; demonstrated use of KPIs to drive performance

• Strong knowledge of, Italian Safety Law and local codes, environmental regulations; permit-to-work and LOTO expertise

• Leadership, communication, problem solving, vendor negotiation, cross-functional collaboration, time management

• Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes and provide efficient solutions

• Ability to handle diverse activities/projects simultaneously

• English and Italian fluent

• Work Visa, in accordance with local regulation

Desired Characteristics

• Aerospace, automotive, heavy industrial, or regulated manufacturing environment.

• Finance principles knowledge (Avio Aero and GE Aerospace)

What we offer

Smart working and work life-balance

Avio Aero, when possible, promotes remote work and encourages a good, healthy and satisfying work-life balance. We value our employees’ wellbeing; hence we offer a variety of improvement programs aimed to preserve anyone’s psychological safety and daily needs.

Total Rewards

At Avio Aero, we understand the importance of Total Rewards. As a new joiner to Avio Aero we are pleased to offer the following welcome benefit plan:

• Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme.

• Flexible benefits platform.

• GE Aerospace share plan.

• Life and injury insurance.

• Private medical cover.

• Employee assistant program.

• Employee special awards (service and recognition).   

• Local special agreements and discounts.

• English and languages training for you and one member of your family.

• Technical, Leadership and development trainings.

Inclusion & Diversity

Avio Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are strongly committed to maintain an inclusive and diverse environment. Every employment decision is taken regardless to national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, etc.

We are not all the same. Just be Yourself AvioAero!

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