Senior Maintenance Manager

Essential duties and responsibilities: Maintenance execution. Accountability for mechanical and electrical maintenance across the site, and for the equipment availability that flows from it. Planning and scheduling. A disciplined work management process: schedules that hold, work that's planned and kitted before it starts, a backlog that's managed. Reliability. The strategy that keeps failures from happening: PM optimization, condition monitoring, defect elimination, and root cause analysis on what matters. Spares and materials. Critical spares strategy and storeroom discipline so parts are on the shelf when the schedule needs them. People and safety. A department led through managers, spanning maintenance execution, planning, reliability, and materials. You'll develop leaders, not just run crews, with safety leadership befitting a metallurgical processing environment. Budget. Maintenance spend across labor, materials, and contractors. Skills, knowledge, and abilities: Engineering degree or trade background with equivalent senior experience 10+ years in maintenance and reliability in heavy industry, such as mining, mineral processing, smelting, cement, or similar continuous-process environments A track record of building proactive, planned maintenance organizations, and the specifics to back it up Experience leading through managers and building leadership capability, not just technical teams Strong grounding in work management, reliability engineering, and shutdown execution Safety leadership in industrial environments Calm, direct, and able to hold a standard while bringing a team along Why this role: Battery recycling is a young industry and this is its largest operation. You'd be building the maintenance function that sets the benchmark for it, with real scale, a clear mandate, and leadership that knows what good looks like and will back you to get there. The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.