Senior Maintenance Manager

About Redwood Materials

We’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have. We run North America’s largest battery recycling operation, a continuous, heavy‑industrial plant built around rotary kilns, shredders, mills, and conveyors. The business depends on this plant running well, and maintenance is central to that.

• Maintenance execution:
  Accountability for mechanical and electrical maintenance across the site, and for the equipment availability that flows from it.
• Planning and scheduling: A disciplined work management process – schedules that hold, work that’s planned and kitted before it starts, a backlog that’s managed.
• Reliability:
  The strategy that keeps failures from happening – PM optimization, condition monitoring, defect elimination, and root‑cause analysis on what matters.
• Spare and materials:
  Critical spares strategy and storeroom discipline so parts are on the shelf when the schedule needs them.
• People and safety: A department led through managers, spanning maintenance execution, planning, reliability, and materials. You’ll develop leaders, not just run crews, with safety leadership befitting a metallurgical processing environment.
• Budget:
  Maintenance spend across labor, materials, and contractors.

• Engineering degree or trade background with equivalent senior experience.
• 10+ years in maintenance and reliability in heavy industry, such as mining, mineral processing, smelting, cement, or similar continuous‑process environments.
• A track record of building proactive, planned maintenance organizations, and the specifics to back it up.
• Experience leading through managers and building leadership capability, not just technical teams.
• Strong grounding in work management, reliability engineering, and shutdown execution.
• Safety leadership in industrial environments.
• Calm, direct, and able to hold a standard while bringing a team along.

Battery recycling is a young industry and this is its largest operation. You would be building the maintenance function that sets the benchmark for it, with real scale, a clear mandate, and leadership that knows what good looks like and will back you to get there.

The position is full‑time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.