This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

You have deep knowledge of and experience with maintaining manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Maintenance Manager, you are a leader who is willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

You own the strategic planning of the assigned maintenance department. You provide leadership within the maintenance organization and lead the organization’s engineers, supervisors and technicians. Responsible for the area budget and headcount resources. Advise the team on completing projects and programs within boundaries of quality, time and budget. Based on significant technical and managerial expertise, creates a strategy and structure to improve asset availability for the department. Provides technical direction to staff and cultivate an environment of creativity and innovation in completing departmental responsibilities and goals.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to build products with the customer's needs top-of-mind. We establish relationships with each other to get work done.

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds.

We provide opportunities for you to continue to learn through training, and support for advanced degrees. Growth from role to role or level to level is encouraged and is supported by management to ensure employees are consistently engaged with their work.

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing strategic planning leadership by setting strategies and priorities based upon anticipation and application of industry trends and emerging technologies.

• Creating and maintaining an environment where team members experience personal and professional growth and become a more self-directed team.

• Using broad knowledge and experience in cross-functional activities, to coordinate and direct activities of teams and individual contributors to ensure asset reliability and availability.

• Creating and implementing effective strategies to improve maintenance metrics, personnel knowledge and skills, ultimately increasing asset availability.

• Increase the effectiveness of internal and external resources (business unit and cross-business unit) to meet departmental objectives.

• Advising on the implementation of new technologies to increase asset availability. Provide leadership to ensure adequate resources are available to complete all departmental responsibilities.

• Drive the site wide culture as it relates to equipment reliability

• Sustain a clean and safe work area using 6S principles.

• Learn, understand and apply thorough quality standards, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree required. Concentration in Engineering Field, preferably. (i.e. Mechanical, Electrical Controls, Mechatronics, Automation)

• 8 or more years of relevant technical experience. Several years of technical management experience including cross-functional teams, resource and budget management.

• Must possess a proven understanding of maintenance management (e.g. technical knowledge, maintenance metrics and computerized maintenance management systems) and show knowledge of related fields within the maintenance department.

• Ability to establish annual business plans which anticipate trends, technical, and financial conditions.

• Possess thorough understanding of Preventive Maintenance Programs and how to establish in a multi-layered manufacturing facility

• Demonstrate understanding of business drivers, customer needs and process improvement.

• Proven record of management/leadership effectiveness.

• A strong ability to negotiate and improve effectiveness of resources and influence others internally and externally.

• Understand safety and quality requirements. Be able to read and comprehend documents and engineering drawings.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $104,000 - $143,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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