Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager leads all maintenance functions within a high-volume steel processing facility, providing the leadership, technical direction, and strategic oversight required to maximize equipment reliability, employee safety, production availability, regulatory compliance, and cost-effective plant performance.

The role directs and develops maintenance personnel and is accountable for preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance across production equipment, material-handling systems, utilities, and facility infrastructure. Working closely with Plant Management, Operations, Engineering, Safety, Purchasing, and other functions, the Maintenance Manager reduces unplanned downtime, improves asset performance, strengthens maintenance discipline, controls maintenance cost, and supports continuous improvement and capital investment priorities.

• Lead, supervise, coach, mentor, and develop maintenance technicians and other maintenance personnel.
• Establish clear expectations for safety, workmanship, productivity, accountability, response time, and equipment reliability.
• Coordinate maintenance coverage across multiple shifts and ensure timely support for production needs and equipment emergencies.
• Support hiring, onboarding, technical training, cross-training, performance development, and succession planning for maintenance employees.
• Build team capability through structured troubleshooting practices, standard work, and continuous skills development.
• Manage maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, backlog control, and work execution for preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance.
• Coordinate planned maintenance with Operations to minimize production disruption and improve schedule compliance.
• Ensure maintenance work is properly scoped, documented, executed to established standards, and closed out in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate equipment records, maintenance history, drawings, manuals, technical documentation, and repair information.
• Review recurring failures and implement permanent corrective actions that address root causes rather than repeated temporary repairs.
• Drive reliability, availability, maintainability, and lifecycle performance of steel processing and material-handling assets.
• Oversee installation, operation, relocation, modification, commissioning, maintenance, and repair of new and existing production equipment.
• Apply root cause analysis and structured problem-solving methods to significant, chronic, or repetitive equipment failures.
• Provide maintenance leadership and technical support for equipment including cut-to-length lines, levelers, industrial shears, coil-handling systems, overhead cranes and hoists, conveyors, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, motors, gearboxes, bearings, variable-frequency drives, PLC-controlled machinery, electrical distribution and control systems, CO2/fiber laser systems, compressors, and facility utilities.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance strategies based on equipment criticality, condition, OEM recommendations, failure history, and operational requirements.
• Use condition-monitoring technologies when appropriate, including vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, ultrasonic inspection, and related predictive tools.
• Monitor PM completion and effectiveness and revise maintenance tasks as equipment condition and operating requirements change.
• Ensure effective use of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for assets, work orders, PM schedules, labor, parts usage, equipment history, and maintenance costs.
• Use CMMS data to identify trends, improve work-order quality, manage backlog, and support maintenance and…