Maintenance Manager - Cement

Role: Maintenance Manager - Cement

Location: Multiple Options

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all mechanical, electrical, and preventive maintenance activities across the cement plant to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations
• Lead daily maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution for kilns, mills, crushers, conveyors, fans, pumps, baghouses, and other plant equipment
• Manage a team of maintenance supervisors, mechanics, electricians, and contractors
• Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime and improve equipment reliability
• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment failures quickly to minimize production interruptions
• Partner with production, operations, and reliability teams to coordinate maintenance work and shutdown planning
• Monitor maintenance KPIs such as downtime, MTBF, MTTR, work order completion, and maintenance costs
• Oversee spare parts inventory, critical spares strategy, and maintenance purchasing to support plant uptime
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including lockout/tagout and confined space procedures
• Support and manage major shutdowns, rebuilds, and capital projects
• Review equipment condition, identify root causes of recurring failures, and drive long term corrective actions
• Manage maintenance budgets, labor utilization, contractor performance, and cost control
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure maintenance work is performed in accordance with company standards
• Maintain accurate maintenance records in the CMMS/EAM system and drive disciplined work order management

Requirements:

• Must have 10+ years maintenance experience, cement plant experience preferred
• Must have 5+ years management/supervisory experience
• Must have a degree, mechanical engineering preferred
• Must be a US citizen or Green Card holder