Senior Manager, Maintenance Program

Senior Manager, Maintenance Program

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Does the thought of joining one of the fastest-growing, privately held data center companies sound exciting to you? Do you enjoy collaborating with team members to drive and operate some of the industry's leading and most innovative infrastructure solutions?

At Aligned Data Centers, not only do we celebrate success across our platform, we celebrate the very teams that drive and support that success! Our culture is founded in passion, engineered from innovation, and driven by the pursuit of operational excellence. We are a company dedicated to driving positive change in the industry through continuous data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability.

We realize not only is providing a comprehensive benefits package important, but we also provide a generous 401k match with immediate vesting, free membership to Gympass which provides our employees a rich health and wellness benefit and competitive time off plan. Giving back and having fun is important to our team whether it be serving our communities or employee and customer events.

Our Aligned DNA is what makes us unique and successful!

As part of our exciting growth, we are currently searching for a Senior Manager, Maintenance Program.

The Senior Manager, Maintenance Program is the enterprise owner of Aligned's maintenance strategy, governance, cost optimization, and execution consistency across all data center markets. This role establishes and enforces a standardized, scalable maintenance framework that improves PM and CM quality, strengthens QA/QC rigor, ensures CMMS data integrity, and delivers measurable OpEx reductions.

This position provides direct leadership to Regional Maintenance Program Managers and serves as the single accountable authority for maintenance standards, vendor alignment, and program performance, while partnering with Construction, Platform Delivery, Risk & Reliability, and Operations to ensure long-term asset reliability and growth readiness.

This role will be based hybrid out of one of our designated Aligned Data Centers locations.

As Senior Manager – Maintenance Program, you will:

• Own and maintain the company wide maintenance strategy, governance model, standards, and policies.
• Develop, publish, and maintain standardized SOWs, PM templates, task lists, and frequencies across all sites.
• Drive alignment with industry best practices, OEM guidance, and internal Runbook expectations.
• Govern CMMS standards, naming conventions, documentation requirements, and national data quality expectations.

• Oversee all national maintenance vendor contracts and lead rate card standardization efforts.
• Manage vendor consolidation strategy to reduce OpEx, unify scope baselines, and eliminate variability between markets.
• Lead contract negotiations, SOW validation, and national-level Q /Y  processes.
• Ensure vendor compliance with PM execution, documentation, QA/QC, and safety standards.

• Establish national QA/QC expectations for PMs, corrective maintenance, and vendor deliverables.
• Implement audit frameworks for completion quality, documentation integrity, and PM accuracy.
• Coordinate with Regional MPMs to ensure consistent implementation of corrective actions and risk mitigation measures.

• Own maintenance program analytics, including compliance dashboards, forecasting models, cost benchmarks, and performance trends.
• Establish metrics and KPIs for PM completion, missed PMs, CM accuracy, vendor performance, QA/QC, and risk indicators.
• Present maintenance performance insights to senior leadership.

• Partner with Platform Delivery, Commissioning, and Engineering during construction phases to ensure maintenance readiness.
• Define turnover requirements, initial PM buildouts, spare parts lists, and vendor onboarding sequencing.

• Provide direct guidance and oversight to Regional Maintenance Program Managers.
• Ensure regional execution aligns with national standards and enterprise reliability expectations.
• Partner with Risk & Reliability,…