VP of Plant Maintenance
industrial_energy_operations › Plant Maintenance (Energy/Mining) · E1 — E1 — Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive responsible for the maintenance strategy and operational reliability of engine rooms and nuclear plant equipment across the organization's facilities.
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$169,459 USD
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What this role is
Executive responsible for the maintenance strategy and operational reliability of engine rooms and nuclear plant equipment across the organization's facilities. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.
What this level does
- Lead the complete plant maintenance and engineering function through maintenance Directors/Superintendents, taking accountability for all maintenance functions necessary to ensure efficient plant operations including manufacturing and utility services
- Direct, schedule, and control all plant engineering/maintenance activity to obtain optimum efficiencies from equipment, utilities, and overall facilities, improving performance across Safety, Quality, and Reliability
- Own the integrated maintenance process for the site — establishing and administering an effective predictive/preventative maintenance program, work-order procedures, and optimized parts inventory through the CMMS
- Develop and execute the plant's 3-year maintenance capital plan, preparing capital appropriation requests, developing competitive equipment/service bids, releasing purchase-order contracts, and controlling project funds within the site budget
- Interface with plant operations executives and major equipment/service vendors on downtime, reliability commitments, and modernization of aging assets; oversee facility designs executed by third-party engineering firms
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deep functional maintenance and plant-engineering knowledge — integrated PM/PdM programs, CMMS-driven work management, utilities/HVAC and power-distribution systems, and mechanical/electrical/hydraulic troubleshooting — to set the maintenance strategy for one complete site or sub-function.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Sets functional maintenance strategy requiring detailed knowledge of the plant's assets; solves problems such as chronic reliability losses and capital-versus-repair trade-offs on aging site equipment.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Interfaces with other plant executives and major equipment/service vendors; leads maintenance through Directors and Superintendents.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of maintenance/plant-engineering and management experience, typically progressing from certified/ticketed craft specialist and site PM-program ownership to running a plant's maintenance function and capital plan.
Skills at this level
- Integrated Predictive/Preventative Maintenance Program Design
- — Establishes and administers a plant-wide maintenance system spanning predictive and preventative regimes, work-order procedures, and optimized parts inventory, so equipment, utilities, and facilities run at optimum efficiency.
- Maintenance Capital Portfolio Planning
- — Builds and controls the multi-year maintenance capital plan — preparing capital appropriation requests, developing competitive equipment/service bids, releasing purchase-order contracts, and controlling project funds against downtime and reliability targets.
- Plant Reliability & Asset Lifecycle Strategy
- — Sets the capital-versus-repair and renewal-versus-run doctrine for aging plant, power-distribution, HVAC, and mechanical/hydraulic assets, driving measurable Safety, Quality, and Reliability performance across the asset lifecycle.
- CMMS-Driven Work Management
- — Governs the Computerized Maintenance Management System as the backbone of work-order flow, fault notification and trouble-call logging, PM scheduling, and reliability record accuracy across the maintenance organization.
- Cross-Domain Maintenance Troubleshooting Oversight
- — Directs resolution of electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions across the plant, drawing on certified/ticketed craft-specialist depth to set standards for how faults are diagnosed and repaired with minimum line downtime.
- Third-Party Engineering & OEM Project Governance
- — Oversees facility and equipment designs executed by external engineering firms and OEMs for expansion and maintenance capital projects, exercising project management and reconciling their designs with in-house reliability and lifecycle standards.
- Utilities & Facilities Uptime Management
- — Takes accountability for the availability of utility services, power-distribution systems, and HVAC alongside production machinery, ensuring the whole installed plant remains operational and cost-effective.
- Maintenance Regulatory & Environmental Compliance
- — Navigates jurisdictional regulatory issues affecting mining/energy operations and balances operational efficiency against safety and environmental responsibility across the sites in scope.
- Maintenance Organization Leadership
- — Provides engineering guidance and leadership through Directors, Superintendents, and VPs — supervising and coaching leaders, completing performance reviews, and delegating production and reliability tracking to subordinate leaders.
- Plant Technology & Modernization Assessment
- — Stays current on technology related to plant operations and recommends equipment/processing-system modifications and replacement, deciding where new predictive and asset-renewal technology reshapes maintenance practice.
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