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Maintenance Manager
Vulcan Elements
Benson, USA
Manager
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago
Full Job Posting
Responsibilities
- Maintenance Organization and Skilled Trades Leadership
- Build and lead the maintenance craft and trades team for assigned manufacturing areas, including staffing, shift and on-call coverage, span of control, technician assignments, and day-to-day floor leadership.
- Recruit, onboard, qualify, and develop skilled trades personnel, including industrial maintenance technicians, electricians, mechanics, millwrights, and other crafts required by the equipment base.
- Establish trade qualification matrices, cross-training plans, progression expectations, and practical competency standards so technicians can safely and independently support assigned equipment.
- Coach frontline supervisors, leads, and technicians on work quality, troubleshooting discipline, ownership, communication, and effective coordination with Operations and Engineering.
- Maintenance Execution and Area Ownership
- Own maintenance execution for assigned production areas, ensuring planned, corrective, and emergent work is prioritized and completed safely, efficiently, and to an appropriate technical standard.
- Coordinate daily maintenance priorities with Operations, Planning & Scheduling, Reliability, Engineering, and Production leadership, balancing production needs with preventive maintenance and equipment health.
- Ensure equipment breakdowns are rapidly assessed, the appropriate trades and resources are deployed, repairs are technically sound, and equipment is verified before return to service.
- Manage the balance of preventive, predictive, corrective, and improvement work to control backlog, reduce repeat failures, and protect equipment availability without creating unnecessary maintenance burden.
- Coordinate technicians, contractors, OEM support, parts, tools, permits, and production access for major repairs, shutdowns, and other work requiring cross-functional execution.
- Startup, Commissioning and Equipment Readiness
- Partner with cross functional engineering and design teams to establish equipment PMs, lubrication and inspection routines, critical spares, special tools, maintenance documentation, and initial job plans.
- Identify maintainability, access, serviceability, spare-parts, and recurring equipment issues during commissioning and drive closure before they become embedded operating constraints.
- Establish clear maintenance turnover and area-ownership practices so technicians understand equipment boundaries, escalation paths, maintenance standards, and responsibilities at startup.
- Safety, Reliability and Continuous Improvement
- Set the standard for safe maintenance execution, including LOTO, electrical safety, hot work, confined-space entry, elevated work, rigging, stored-energy control, and other hazards associated with industrial maintenance.
- Ensure maintenance procedures, permits, job plans, pre-job reviews, and field execution are appropriate to the risk and complexity of the work being performed.
- Drive high-quality maintenance practices that improve equipment condition and reduce repeat failures, including precision installation, proper alignment and assembly, inspection discipline, and effective post-maintenance verification.
- Partner with Reliability and Engineering resources on recurring equipment losses, root-cause investigations, condition-based maintenance, and equipment improvements; ensure corrective actions are translated into field execution and standard work.
- Maintain organized, professional maintenance shops, tool-control practices, staging areas, and housekeeping standards that support efficient and safe craft execution.
- Work Management, CMMS and Resource Control
- Establish strong CMMS discipline for the assigned areas, including accurate work requests, labor and parts history, failure coding, completion notes, preventive-maintenance compliance, and timely work-order closeout.
- Manage area performance using practical maintenance KPIs such as schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog age, response and repair time, repeat failures, overtime, contractor usage, and equipment-related downtime.
- Manage maintenance labor, contractor support, tools, consumables, and area maintenance spending within plan; work with Planning, Stores, Reliability, and Procurement to ensure critical parts and external resources are available when needed.
Qualifications
- 8+ of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing, process, or similarly equipment-intensive environment, including three or more years leading maintenance technicians, skilled trades, or craft teams.
- Skilled trade apprenticeship, technical diploma, journeyman credential, military technical training, or equivalent hands-on industrial maintenance experience; demonstrated trade and maintenance leadership capability is more important than an engineering degree for this role.
- Strong practical knowledge of maintaining complex manufacturing equipment, including mechanical systems and industrial electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, material-handling, automated, or other production equipment relevant to the assigned area.
- Demonstrated ability to organize and deploy multi-craft maintenance resources across planned work, equipment breakdowns, shutdowns, and competing production priorities.
- Strong command of industrial maintenance safety and work-control practices, including LOTO and safe execution of higher-risk maintenance activities.
- Experience using a CMMS and applying preventive maintenance, work planning, backlog management, troubleshooting, root-cause problem solving, and maintenance performance metrics in a production environment.
- Preferred
- Experience supporting startup, commissioning, major equipment installation, or expansion of a new manufacturing operation, including direct engagement with equipment OEMs and contractors.
- Experience in advanced materials, automotive, machining, metals, battery, semiconductor, aerospace, or other manufacturing environments with complex automated equipment and strong uptime, quality, and safety requirements.
- Physical and Environmental Requirements
- The position requires regular presence on the production floor and the ability to navigate all areas of the facility. Candidates must be able to climb stairs, stand and walk for extended periods, and work in environments that may be hot, humid, or noisy. The role also requires the use of personal protective equipment, including respirators, and adherence to all applicable safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. Employees must be able to complete required fit testing, wear appropriate PPE for the duration of assigned tasks, and respond safely to changing conditions within the production environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred
About Vulcan Elements
Manufacturing
Vulcan Elements manufactures rare earth magnets for electric vehicles and defense applications, supporting domestic supply chain security and advanced manufacturing.
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