Maintenance Manager

Job Description

Job Description

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading and managing all maintenance activities within the chemical manufacturing facility to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of plant assets. This role provides direct leadership to Maintenance Mechanics, Instrumentation & Electrical (I&E) Technicians, and the Maintenance Planner. The Maintenance Manager is accountable for maintenance-related Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) performance, equipment reliability, maintenance budgeting, and maintenance activities that impact product quality and regulatory compliance.

The position drives a proactive maintenance culture focused on reliability, continuous improvement, cost optimization, and operational excellence while ensuring compliance with all company policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Compliance: Promote and maintain a strong safety culture within the maintenance organization, ensuring employees and contractors comply with site safety requirements.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with all EHS policies, OSHA regulations, Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements, environmental permits, agency requirements, company standards, and applicable laws.
• Lead maintenance participation in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Management of Change (MOC), incident investigations, risk assessments, audits, training, observations, and corrective actions.
• Maintenance & Reliability Leadership: Develop and execute maintenance strategies that improve equipment reliability, plant availability, asset utilization, and overall asset performance.
• Lead preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-centered maintenance programs based on chemical-industry best practices.
• Ensure effective maintenance planning and scheduling, proper work documentation in the CMMS, and timely completion of required inspections, testing, and certifications.
• Establish and monitor reliability metrics, including equipment uptime, Mean Time Between Failure, Mean Time To Repair, preventive maintenance compliance, schedule compliance, asset utilization, and maintenance cost.
• Lead root cause analyses for significant equipment failures, implement sustainable corrective actions, and conduct asset criticality assessments to support risk-based maintenance strategies.
• Review plant equipment and systems to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and resolve problems, and identify reliability and efficiency improvements.
• Team Leadership: Provide direction, coaching, performance management, and clear objectives for the Maintenance Supervisor, I&E Supervisor, Maintenance Planner, and maintenance personnel.
• Develop workforce capability through training, mentoring, succession planning, and current operating and training procedures.
• Manage staffing, scheduling, and contractor resources; support interviewing, hiring, work assignment, performance appraisal, recognition, discipline, complaint resolution, and other supervisory responsibilities.
• Foster effective two-way communication and collaboration among maintenance, operations, engineering, quality, EHS, and other departments.
• Budget & Cost Management: Develop and manage the annual maintenance operating budget and contractor services.
• Manage spare-parts, maintenance-supplies, and equipment inventory strategies to balance reliability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Prepare reports, analyze data, and implement cost-saving and efficiency initiatives through reliability improvements and maintenance projects.
• Product Quality & Operational Excellence: Partner with operations and quality teams to investigate and resolve maintenance-related quality issues and identify equipment conditions that may affect product quality.
• Drive improvements in equipment uptime, maintenance efficiency, overall equipment effectiveness, plant cleanliness, and operational excellence.
• Participate in plant objective setting, plan development, and performance reviews, and perform other assignments as necessary and directed by management.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and process equipment systems, including pumps, compressors, rotating equipment, heat exchangers, piping systems, control valves, and DCS/PLC systems.
• Knowledge of reliability methodologies including root cause analysis (RCA), reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), and predictive maintenance technologies.
• Knowledge of OSHA regulations, PSM requirements, environmental compliance, and industry safety standards.
• Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Strong leadership, communication, team-building, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to prioritize work effectively in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Financial acumen and demonstrated budget-management capability.
• Ability to manage manpower, assets, contractors, and organizational capabilities while balancing multiple priorities and following policies and procedures.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to influence and motivate employees and align work with strategic goals.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to maintain confidential information professionally.
• Must be prompt and dependable with a good attendance record.
• Must participate in the random drug-testing program and be able to pass required physical, drug, and Department of Homeland Security-approved pre-employment criminal background checks.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related technical field preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.

Experience Requirements:

• 7+ of progressive maintenance experience in chemical manufacturing, petrochemical, specialty chemical, refining, or a related process industry.
• 3+ leadership experience managing maintenance teams.
• Experience working in Process Safety Management (PSM) environments.
• Demonstrated success implementing reliability-improvement programs.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets and contractor services.
• Hands-on knowledge of the repair and maintenance of process-manufacturing equipment.

AMVAC Offers:

• Excellent Insurance plans including Medical, Dental, and Vision with low out-of-pocket expenses for employees and their families
• Life and AD&D insurance for employees and their families 
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer matching 
• Employee Stock Purchasing Plan (ESPP) – NYSE: AVD with employee discounts 
• Generous paid time off
• FSA or HSA plans available; Annual Bonus and more 
  
  
  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. AMVAC is proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment background checks and substance abuse testing.

We participate in the E-Verify Federal Identification System.