Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading a rotational shift maintenance team to safely and reliably execute maintenance activities that support plant operations. This position provides frontline leadership, coaching, mentoring, and workforce development to maintenance technicians while driving safety, reliability, productivity, and continuous improvement initiatives. The Maintenance Manager partners with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Reliability, and other departments to ensure maintenance activities are executed efficiently, effectively, and in alignment with business objectives. This role is accountable for developing team capability, supporting succession planning, and fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates and promotes an uncompromising commitment to safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
• Leads, coaches, mentors, and develops a rotational shift maintenance team to achieve safety, reliability, productivity, and performance objectives.
• Establishes clear performance expectations and provides ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance management to support employee growth and accountability.
• Identifies workforce capability gaps and develops training, qualification, and development plans to enhance technician skills and readiness.
• Supports talent development, succession planning, and career progression initiatives within the maintenance organization.
• Oversees workforce planning activities, including staffing, scheduling, recruitment, onboarding, employee development, and disciplinary actions.
• Drives a culture of ownership, teamwork, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Partners with Maintenance Planners, Reliability, Engineering, and Operations teams to prioritize, schedule, and execute maintenance activities.
• Ensures maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews maintenance performance metrics, KPIs, and reliability data to identify improvement opportunities and drive sustainable results.
• Participates in incident investigations, root cause analyses, layered safety audits, and corrective action implementation.
• Supports shutdown, turnaround, and capital project planning and execution activities.
• Oversees maintenance-related budgets and controls costs while maintaining equipment reliability and operational effectiveness.
• Ensures the accuracy of SAP maintenance records, notifications, work orders, labor reporting, and material transactions.
• Collaborates with Engineering, Procurement, and Reliability teams to optimize spare parts strategies and inventory management.
• Develops, reviews, and maintains maintenance procedures, standard operating procedures, work instructions, training materials, and management of change documentation.
• Monitors equipment performance, maintenance effectiveness, and emerging risks to proactively address reliability concerns.
• Builds strong working relationships across departments to facilitate communication, problem solving, and alignment of maintenance priorities.
• Promotes and reinforces ArcelorMittal values, leadership expectations, and a positive team culture.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of industrial maintenance experience in a heavy industrial, manufacturing, steel, mining, petrochemical, power generation, or similar production environment.
• Minimum 3 years of leadership experience overseeing maintenance personnel, contractors, or maintenance-related projects.
• Strong hands-on mechanical maintenance background with experience supporting rotating equipment, conveyors, material handling systems, pumps, compressors, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics, bearings, and power transmission equipment.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex mechanical equipment failures and leading root cause analysis efforts.
• Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices.
• Experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, backlog management, and shutdown/turnaround execution.
• Experience using SAP PM or a comparable computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Knowledge of industrial safety requirements, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), confined space entry, hot work permitting, mobile equipment safety, and contractor management.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, mentor, and develop maintenance personnel while driving accountability, safety, reliability, and performance expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across operations, maintenance, engineering, and reliability functions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to analyze maintenance metrics, equipment history, and reliability data to support continuous improvement efforts.