Director of Plant Maintenance

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.