Maintenance Manager

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IPSC provides operations, maintenance, management, and power support services to the US Power Generation Industry across the United States. Our team is comprised of experts from diverse backgrounds of technical fields, including power operations, engineering, asset management, as well as finance, human resources, administration, safety and environmental. With this diverse background coupled with extensive years of employee experience, IPSC provides exceptional operations, maintenance, management, and development expertise to a variety of power assets.

IPSC has a career opportunity for a Maintenance Manager for the Plant Maintenance department located at our Pacific Ultra Chinese Station (PUCS) plant in Jamestown, CA. The salary range for this position is $140K - $160K annual base salary, depending on skills and experience.

The Maintenance Manager – Maintenance is responsible for the safe, reliable, and cost‑effective execution of all mechanical and Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) maintenance activities at an 18 MW biomass‑fueled power plant. This role is centered on a systems‑based maintenance philosophy within a continuous‑process environment and is accountable for preventive and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance workflow management, planned outage execution, spare parts and warehouse management, and long‑term plant reliability improvement.

• Maintenance Strategy & Systems Approach
  Develop and continuously improve a plant‑wide maintenance strategy aligned with reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM) principles. Establish standardized processes for planning, scheduling, execution, documentation, and post‑work review.
• Plant Budget and Reporting
  Assist in the preparation of the Annual Budget. Assist in the preparation of capital upgrades. Monitor Maintenance Budget and provide variance input on a monthly basis.
• Personnel Management
  Direct Maintenance Technicians’ daily activities. Ensures safe work practices and procedures are observed. Maintain a productive and motivated staff through sound human resource management and the enforcement of personnel policy. Ensure work group activities are performed on time and within budget through effective planning, organizing, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities and utilization of resources. Set high and challenging productivity and quality standards for self and work group;
  
  encourage new ideas and work methods to lower costs and increase productivity, quality and safety. Clearly assign responsibility for tasks and decisions and manage expectations of others.
• Mechanical & E&I Maintenance Oversight
  Direct all mechanical maintenance activities including boilers, turbines, fuel and ash handling systems, pumps, fans, valves, and balance‑of‑plant equipment. Direct all E&I maintenance activities including DCS, PLCs, instrumentation, analyzers, electrical distribution, motors, generators, and protection systems.
• Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Programs
  Develop and maintain robust preventive maintenance (PM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) programs using vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and condition‑based monitoring. Optimize maintenance intervals based on equipment condition and data.
• Maintenance Workflow & CMMS Management
  Own the maintenance workflow from work request through closeout. Ensure accurate prioritization, planning, scheduling, documentation, and asset history within the CMMS. Use data to manage backlog and performance KPIs.
• Planned Outage Planning & Execution
  Lead planning and execution of planned outages. Develop outage scopes, schedules, and resource plans. Perform critical path method (CPM) analysis…