Manager,Steelmaking Maintenance Job Edmonton area,Alberta Canada,Maintenance/Cleaning

Manager, Steelmaking Maintenance

The Manager, Steelmaking Maintenance is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and reliability of mechanical and electrical maintenance within the steelmaking operations. This role ensures safe, efficient, and cost-effective maintenance execution to support production targets, equipment reliability, and operational excellence.

The role provides strategic and day-to-day leadership to maintenance teams, ensuring effective planning, scheduling, and execution of all maintenance activities, including preventative, predictive, and corrective work. The Manager is accountable for minimizing downtime, optimizing asset performance, and driving continuous improvement across the steelmaking area.

Responsibilities

Lead all mechanical and electrical maintenance activities within steelmaking, ensuring alignment with safety, production, and reliability objectives

Establish and enforce maintenance standards, procedures, and best practices to ensure consistent and high-quality execution

Provide leadership, direction, and performance management to maintenance supervisors, planners, engineers, and trades personnel

Ensure effective planning and scheduling of maintenance work, including prioritization of backlog based on risk, safety, and operational impact

Oversee preventative and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment uptime and extend asset life

Coordinate closely with operations to plan and execute maintenance activities with minimal disruption to production

Lead and support major shutdowns and outages, including scope development, resource planning, and execution oversight

Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to maintenance, including downtime, reliability, costs, and schedule compliance

Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing unplanned downtime and improving maintenance efficiency

Ensure effective use and optimization of the CMMS for work management, reporting, and data-driven decision-making

Collaborate with procurement and stores to ensure availability of critical spares and effective inventory management

Develop and manage the maintenance budget, including labour, materials, and contracted services, ensuring cost control and accountability

Support capital projects and equipment upgrades by providing maintenance input on design, maintainability, and lifecycle considerations

Ensure compliance with all safety regulations, company policies, and applicable standards, reinforcing a strong safety culture

Lead incident investigations related to maintenance activities and ensure corrective actions are implemented and sustained

Qualifications and Experience

Related education including but not limited to a Certified Engineering Technologist (CET), an Engineering degree or a Certified Journeyperson Millwright or Electrician

A Certified Reliability Maintenance Professional (CRMP) or Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) certification would be considered an asset.

Minimum of 7 years’ experience leading a maintenance department in a manufacturing environment

Experience in leading within a unionized environment is necessary to be successful in this role

Experience with overhead cranes is an asset

Experience in reliability and root cause analysis would be beneficial

Strong Microsoft Office skills

Strong time management skills, ability to plan appropriately, handle multiple tasks efficiently and work well under pressure

Strong work ethics, high level of enthusiasm and ability to excel in a flexible, fast-paced environment

Details

Full time, permanent, In-town opportunity

Days and hours of work are 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday, flexibility is required to accommodate for plant demand during shutdown, breakdowns, etc.

Employer paid benefits and pension contribution

Pre-employment Drug and alcohol testing and Criminal Record Check required

This posting will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.