Director - Maintenance Services

The Director - Maintenance Services is a senior maintenance leader responsible for maintenance strategy, planning, scheduling, execution, and continuous improvement across client’s recirculating aquaculture facility. This role is accountable for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs; work management discipline; maintenance performance reporting; and safe, reliable execution for critical facility and process assets.

Reporting directly to the COO, this position partners closely with Operations, Production, Engineering, Water Quality, Facilities, and Procurement to maximize equipment reliability, uptime, safety, and cost effectiveness while protecting fish health and production continuity. Success in this role requires strong technical competence, disciplined planning and scheduling, and the ability to build a high-performance maintenance culture grounded in measurable results.

• 10+ years of progressive maintenance, reliability, plant engineering, or technical operations experience in industrial processing, aquaculture, food manufacturing, utilities, water or wastewater, refrigeration, or similar continuous-process environments required.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or related field preferred. An equivalent combination of technical training and relevant experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated expertise in preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance methodologies and in building disciplined maintenance work-management systems.
• Strong experience with maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS administration, and maintenance of KPI development and management.
• Technical competency with HVAC, industrial chilling and refrigeration support systems, pumping, piping, valves, motors, rotating equipment, and industrial utility systems.
• Ability to lead reliability and root‑cause efforts, prioritize competing work, and improve asset performance in a fast‑paced operating environment.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence outcomes and drive execution through others.

• Safety is a core value to client; this role leads by example to drive an accident and injury free workplace.
• Lead maintenance services and support utility systems, establishing standards, priorities, and execution discipline across the facility.
• Develop and implement a maintenance strategy that balances reliability, responsiveness, cost control, biosecurity, safety, and production continuity.
• Solve problems to root cause and drive continuous improvement.

• Establish and continuously improve preventive maintenance programs for mechanical, electrical, and utility assets using OEM recommendations, operating experience, and failure history.
• Implement and manage predictive maintenance technologies and practices such as vibration analysis, thermography, oil or lubricant condition monitoring, ultrasound, motor condition diagnostics, performance trending, and inspection‑based condition monitoring as appropriate.
• Ensure corrective maintenance is prioritized, planned, executed, and closed out with appropriate documentation, root‑cause follow‑up, and lessons learned.

• Own industry‑leading maintenance planning and scheduling processes, including job‑planning quality, weekly scheduling, outage coordination, materials readiness, backlog control, and labor productivity.
• Maintain an effective CMMS and work‑management process covering work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, history capture, and work‑order closure.
• Improve wrench time and schedule compliance by ensuring work packages include scope, labor, parts, permits, tools, safety requirements, and estimated duration.

• Develop and report maintenance and work‑management KPI dashboards including PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog aging, wrench time, mean time between failures, mean time to repair, emergency work, repeat failures,…