Maintenance Quality & Standards Manager

KNAPP North America

Maintenance Quality & Standards Manager leading maintenance execution quality and safety in warehouse automation. Ensuring compliance with established standards and processes across multiple sites.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeKennesaw • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Maintenance Quality & Standards Manager is the enterprise owner of maintenance execution quality, safety standards, cleanliness standards, reporting discipline, and audit readiness across all sites.
Ensure that maintenance and safety processes designed by Continuous Improvement (CI) are consistently applied, enforced, measured, and sustained.
Conduct routine and unannounced site audits to verify adherence to quality, safety, and cleanliness standards.
Score and benchmark sites on cleanliness, PM compliance, safety adherence, and maintenance discipline.
Audit accuracy and consistency of work order documentation, asset data integrity, backlog management, safety-related documentation, and PM closeout.
Develop and maintain standardized dashboards and a monthly reporting cadence covering quality and safety indicators.
Coach technicians and supervisors on maintenance quality standards, safe execution, root cause thinking, and preventive maintenance maturity.
Facilitate cross-site knowledge sharing and best practice adoption related to maintenance quality and safety.
Validate continuous inspection and audit readiness (fire, safety, facility audits, OEM recommendations).
Identify maintenance-related quality and safety risks and support corrective action plans to mitigate recurrence.
Own and publish maintenance quality and safety scorecards across all sites. Identify underperforming locations and lead corrective action and improvement plans in partnership with operations and site leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Operations, Safety, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, operations, or safety leadership
Demonstrated experience with CMMS systems, PM programs, audits, and performance reporting
Strong working knowledge of maintenance best practices, safety standards, 5S, RCA, and preventive/predictive maintenance concepts
Proven ability to influence without direct authority and coach teams across multiple sites
Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
Authorization to work in the U.S.
Passport or ability to obtain passport

Benefits

Comp & perks

2 remote days per week
Half day Fridays
A beautiful new, state-of-the-art, office complex in Kennesaw, GA
Industry competitive compensation
Great benefits with better than average employer contributions, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short & Long Term Disability and more!
401k with a very generous employer match and no vesting!
Paid Vacation & Holidays
Profit Sharing
Paid Parental Leave
Subsidized Daycare
Tuition Reimbursement
Pet Insurance
Subsidized food delivery
Monthly celebrations
Quarterly employee events
Corporate Social Responsibility including recycling, sustainability and volunteering

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Hard Skills & Tools

CMMS systemsPM programsauditsperformance reportingmaintenance best practicessafety standards5Sroot cause analysis (RCA)preventive maintenancepredictive maintenance

Soft Skills

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