Senior Director of Field Maintenance
industrial_energy_operations › Field Maintenance · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive leader overseeing all field maintenance operations, strategy, and management teams across multiple regions or business units.
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What this role is
Senior executive leader overseeing all field maintenance operations, strategy, and management teams across multiple regions or business units. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Oversees field maintenance across multiple functions or divisions through senior managers, setting the long-term strategy that shapes the organization's maintenance and equipment-reliability posture
- Defines multi-year direction on predictive maintenance, mobile-workforce technology and the technician career and certification framework, with effects on long-term company success
- Negotiates with executives and top-tier customers on critical maintenance and service-availability matters, acting as a policy influencer for contractual reliability commitments
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional problems where maintenance strategy intersects fleet capital, workforce planning, safety governance and customer-service economics
- Establishes the enterprise governance, safety and performance standards that all field maintenance departments operate within, holding senior managers accountable to division-wide outcomes
- Knowledge applied
- Sets long-term field-maintenance strategy spanning multiple functions or divisions, shaping the enterprise's reliability, workforce and technology direction.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional problems where maintenance intersects capital, workforce and customer economics, with long-term effect on company success.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and top-tier customers on critical maintenance and reliability matters as a policy influencer.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of deep leadership across maintenance departments or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Reading technical documentation and schematics
- — Reads and interprets technical instructions, safety and service manuals, and company policies, and works with electric/electronic and hydraulic system schematics, wiring diagrams and equipment service manuals to guide diagnosis and repair decisions across the team.
- Preventive and routine maintenance programs
- — Establishes and oversees schedules for cleaning, lubricating and servicing equipment and vehicles, ensuring routine preventive-maintenance tasks are completed on interval to sustain equipment uptime.
- Root-cause analysis of equipment failures
- — Observes devices in operation and dismantles them to locate the underlying cause of recurring or critical failures, then decides corrective repair, replacement or procedure change to prevent reoccurrence.
- Advanced troubleshooting and break-fix diagnosis
- — Diagnoses errors and technical problems on complex and critical equipment, testing and isolating faults across electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems and determining the proper repair solution.
- Maintenance data trend analysis
- — Uses advanced maintenance technologies and CMMS data to collect equipment-performance data, observe reliability trends and make recommendations that reprioritize preventive-maintenance programs.
- CMMS work-order management
- — Uses a Computerized Maintenance Management System to dispatch callouts, track work-order completion, monitor preventive-maintenance backlog and close out field job reports for the team.
- Field dispatch and callout coordination
- — Assigns and prioritizes customer callouts and preventive routes for mobile technicians working out of field service trucks, balancing scheduled maintenance against unplanned emergencies and coverage constraints.
- Technician coaching and technical training
- — Coaches technicians and customer staff on safe operation, maintenance best practices and procedures for new equipment installations, raising the technical capability and consistency of field work.
- Field service safety and compliance oversight
- — Ensures technicians follow safety manuals and procedures during on-site installation, repair and testing, and sets maintenance policy that keeps the function compliant with safety and contractual standards.
- Truck stock and spare-parts logistics
- — Coordinates with parts and dispatch to maintain equipment and spare stock in company vehicles so technicians arrive at customer sites equipped for scheduled and emergency maintenance.
- Maintenance budget and fleet management
- — Owns the operating budget, service-truck fleet and spare-parts investment for field maintenance, balancing coverage, cost and equipment-availability outcomes.
- Predictive maintenance strategy
- — Directs adoption of advanced maintenance technologies and analytics to shift the function from reactive break-fix toward trend-driven predictive maintenance across teams and territories.
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