Repair & Maintenance Manager

Repair & Maintenance Manager

Lead repair and maintenance operations to ensure assets, equipment, facilities, and operational infrastructure are safe, reliable, cost-effective, and available to support business needs. This role manages internal maintenance teams and third-party workshop partners, drives repair quality and turnaround time, and improves maintenance performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance for operational assets, equipment, tools, and facilities.
• Manage and develop technicians, mechanics, supervisors, and external workshop partners to achieve safety, quality, productivity, and service targets.
• Establish maintenance SOPs, inspection standards, work-order controls, and repair-quality requirements.
• Manage third-party workshops through SLAs, performance reviews, audits, escalation processes, and corrective-action plans.
• Monitor asset availability, downtime, turnaround time, first-time-fix rate, repeat repair rate, preventive-maintenance compliance, backlog, and cost per repair.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement improvements to reduce downtime, rework, and cost.
• Plan manpower, tools, spare parts, consumables, and vendor capacity to maintain operational readiness.
• Control maintenance budgets, repair quotations, parts usage, invoices, warranties, and vendor claims.
• Coordinate with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Procurement to prioritize repairs and minimize operational disruption.
• Maintain maintenance records and provide regular performance, risk, and improvement reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Automotive Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–7 years of experience in repair, maintenance, workshop, fleet, automotive, manufacturing, or technical operations, including 2–3 years in a supervisory or managerial role.
• Experience managing third-party workshops, repair vendors, service centers, or maintenance partners.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, spare-parts management, vendor management, and SLA governance.
• Strong leadership, analytical, communication, budget-control, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and maintenance, work-order, CMMS, ERP, or fleet-management systems.

Preferred

• Experience in EV, motorcycle, automotive, mobility, logistics, manufacturing, or field-service operations.
• Familiarity with Lean, Kaizen, 5S, TPM, or continuous-improvement practices.