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.