North America Maintenance Manager

Exotec designs and delivers advanced automation solutions that help global brands optimize warehouse performance while supporting warehouse teams across at every level. Our organization combines elegant mechanical design, resilient software and a deep understanding of logistics operations to solve our clients’ most complex challenges.
Working at Exotec means contributing to the systems used daily in warehouses. You'll collaborate with passionate colleagues who share knowledge, challenge ideas and work in a respectful environment that values the diversity of more than 1,000 ExoPeople around the world.
Here, your work moves from concept to production and into the hands of clients who rely on it each day. You’ll join a company where collaboration, excellence, and meaningful impact guide what's built next.
Your Role
Reporting directly to the Maintenance Director, you will be the operational leader for maintenance activities across approximately 14 customer sites throughout the United States and Canada. You will oversee Site Team Leaders and maintenance teams while helping Exotec scale its maintenance organization, standardize best practices, and build capabilities for supporting increasingly complex integrated automation solutions.
This is a highly visible role that will serve as the North American voice within our global maintenance organization and help shape how Exotec supports multi-vendor automated warehouse environments.
What You'll Do
Lead maintenance teams, site leaders, and technicians across multiple customer sites
Manage workload balancing and resource allocation across North America
Establish and deploy maintenance best practices across sites
Support recruiting, onboarding, training, and development of maintenance team members
Identify skill gaps and coordinate training and talent deployment between sites
Collaborate with Maintenance Engineering teams to improve service delivery and reliability
Partner with Deployment teams to ensure successful maintenance transitions for new sites
Define maintenance organization structures for newly commissioned locations
Support Safety, and operational teams regarding regional regulations and compliance requirements
Ensure adherence to EHS standards and safe working practices
Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the maintenance network
Manage vendor relationships, service providers, spare parts strategies, and escalation processes across multiple equipment suppliers
Act as a key point of coordination between customer sites, Exotec teams, and third-party equipment providers
Requirements
What We're Looking For
Required Experience
Minimum 5 years of maintenance leadership experience in highly automated industrial environments
Experience managing maintenance operations supporting automated distribution, logistics, fulfillment, or e-commerce systems
Multi-site maintenance leadership experience
Proven ability to drive consistency, governance, and operational discipline across geographically dispersed teams
Experience leading both internal maintenance teams and third-party service providers
Demonstrated success coaching, developing, and leading technical teams
Strong escalation management experience with equipment suppliers and external vendors
Professional proficiency in English
Able to travel approximately 50%
Available for occasional after-hours or weekend escalation support is a plus.
Integration & Automation Experience
We are specifically looking for candidates who bring experience from complex multi-vendor automation environments and can help Exotec continue its evolution as an integrated solutions provider.
Ideal candidates have managed maintenance operations involving multiple OEMs and automation technologies, including:
Conveyor systems
Sortation systems
Pallet transport systems
Packaging automation
Warehouse Control Systems (WCS)
Integrated material handling solutions
Experience gained within warehouse automation integrators or similar organizations is highly valued. Candidates from highly automated logistics operators managing multiple equipment providers are also encouraged to apply.
Benefits
Competitive compensation package, inclusive of salary and annual bonus
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
Generous vacation and time off policy
401(k) with company match up to 5%
Continuous opportunities for training and development in an international setting
Beautiful, new office space in midtown Atlanta

Work arrangement
No