Senior Manager, Plant Maintenance
industrial_energy_operations › Plant Maintenance (Energy/Mining) · M4 — M4 — Director · Management
Senior manager accountable for the maintenance and reliability of engine room and nuclear plant equipment across a facility or multiple sites.
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$167,689 USD
▲ +95.9% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior manager accountable for the maintenance and reliability of engine room and nuclear plant equipment across a facility or multiple sites. At the Director (M4) level, the role owns a function or department, strategic priorities and cross-functional alignment, and drives function-level results. Leads managers; sets direction for the function.
What this level does
- Manage maintenance across multiple plant sections or a critical function, holding responsibility for the yearly maintenance budget and its allocation
- Lead capital project planning and implementation for equipment replacement and plant improvements, aligning maintenance strategy with business objectives
- Direct data-mining efforts to establish reliability and uptime metrics, using them to set maintenance policy and prioritize investment
- Assist senior management with plant improvements and expansions, providing maintenance feasibility and cost input for major decisions
- Own safety incident investigations for the maintenance organization, driving corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence
- Knowledge applied
- Applies reliability engineering, capital planning, and budget management across multiple maintenance sections aligned to business objectives.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Sets strategic maintenance policies; decisions on capital projects and reliability metrics could jeopardize plant availability if wrong.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Engages senior plant leaders on maintenance strategy, capital, and expansion feasibility.
- Typical experience
- 8–10+ years with complex, multi-team maintenance organization leadership.
Skills at this level
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- — Establishes maintenance procedures covering planning, scheduling, material support, and analysis of cost and performance to keep plant equipment running efficiently and minimize downtime.
- Preventive and Corrective Maintenance Leadership
- — Directs the plant's preventive and corrective maintenance activities across power distribution, HVAC, and production equipment, coordinating routine servicing with breakdown repair to sustain uptime.
- Reliability and Uptime Analytics
- — Leads data-mining efforts to establish reliability and uptime metrics, analyzing production equipment to prevent unexpected downtime costs and identify improvement opportunities.
- Mechanical, Electrical and Hydraulic Troubleshooting
- — Diagnoses and resolves electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions on plant machinery and extraction/energy equipment such as turbines, guiding crews through repair while observing safety precautions.
- Maintenance Budget and Capital Project Management
- — Holds responsibility for the yearly maintenance budget and manages capital project planning and implementation for equipment replacement, plant improvements, and expansions.
- Mechanical Integrity and Safety Compliance
- — Ensures maintenance activities comply with mechanical integrity and preventive maintenance programs and leads safety incident investigations to identify root cause and prevent recurrence.
- CMMS Maintenance Management
- — Uses a Computerized Maintenance Management System to log trouble calls, track preventive maintenance completion, and record equipment fault history so maintenance and operator records stay accurate.
- Operations Monitoring
- — Watches gauges, dials, and indicators across plant equipment to confirm machines are functioning properly and to trigger maintenance intervention before failure.
- Maintenance Team Leadership and Development
- — Supervises and develops crews of maintenance technicians and mechanics, assigning work, coaching on procedures, and building the multi-disciplinary trade competency needed for energy/mining assets.
- Multi-Site Asset Strategy
- — Sets long-term maintenance and reliability strategy across multiple, often remote energy/mining sites, accounting for asset mobility and coordinating standards and capital programs across facilities.
- Process Improvement and Root Cause Analysis
- — Applies problem solving and process improvement to recurring equipment failures, identifying root causes and driving corrective/preventive actions that reduce downtime and cost.
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