Maintenance Manager - Recycling Industry

Maintenance Manager
- Recycling Industry
- Base Salary to 110k/year
- Webb City, MO Our client, a well-established recycling company, is currently seeking a hands-on Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations for a busy industrial recycling facility. The Maintenance Manager will oversee a six-person maintenance team and be responsible for fleet maintenance, heavy mobile equipment, diesel trucks, hydraulic systems, stationary processing equipment, and related industrial machinery. This position requires hands-on mechanical experience and the ability to work alongside maintenance personnel while leading day-to-day maintenance operations.

• Lead and supervise daily maintenance operations for the yard, maintenance shop, fleet, heavy equipment, and stationary processing equipment
• Manage and train a team of six maintenance employees
• Establish and maintain preventive maintenance and equipment maintenance schedules for trucks, heavy equipment, hydraulic equipment, and stationary machinery
• Troubleshoot and diagnose mechanical, hydraulic, diesel, and operational equipment issues
• Oversee maintenance and repair of trucks, roll-off containers, trailers, material handlers, forklifts, skid steers, and other heavy mobile equipment
• Maintain and troubleshoot stationary processing equipment, including large industrial shears and ferrous balers
• Provide hands-on mechanical support, troubleshooting, and repair guidance to maintenance personnel
• Support welding and fabrication repairs associated with fleet, heavy equipment, and industrial machinery
• Manage maintenance costs and assist with the maintenance department budget
• Maintain inventory of critical spare parts and coordinate outside repairs and service vendors
• Oversee safe maintenance practices throughout yard and shop operations
• Identify maintenance and process improvements that increase equipment reliability, productivity, and uptime
• Work with operations leadership to prioritize repairs and minimize production and equipment downtime

• Proven maintenance management experience supporting heavy equipment and fleet operations within metal recycling or a similar industrial environment, including recycling, demolition, aggregate, quarry, mining, waste management, lumber, steel mills, concrete, asphalt, ready mix, or heavy equipment rental
• Experience managing maintenance involving heavy mobile equipment, hydraulic systems, diesel trucks, and welding/fabrication in a production-driven industrial environment
• Hands-on mechanical experience maintaining and repairing heavy equipment and stationary industrial machinery
• Hydraulic equipment maintenance and troubleshooting experience
• Previous maintenance leadership or supervisory experience
• Experience diagnosing mechanical, hydraulic, and operational equipment problems and determining appropriate repairs
• Experience leading maintenance personnel while providing hands-on equipment maintenance and troubleshooting support

• Base salary in the 100k - 110k/year range
• Comprehensive insurance benefits
• 401k
• Relocation assistance available (lump sum)