Maintenance Manager, Fixed & Rotating
Job Description
Responsibilities
- The Maintenance Manager, Fixed & Rotating Equipment will lead the fixed and rotating equipment engineering team and establish department priorities and objectives.
- Provide technical leadership for pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, tanks, pumps, compressors, and other critical equipment.
- Develop and maintain equipment reliability and mechanical integrity programs.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, API, ASME, NFPA, and applicable chemical industry standards.
- Oversee inspection, testing, repair, and maintenance strategies for fixed equipment.
- Provide technical direction for rotating equipment reliability, predictive maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Review equipment failures and lead root-cause failure analysis and corrective actions.
- Develop and manage equipment replacement, reliability, and capital improvement projects.
- Establish equipment criticality assessments and risk-based inspection strategies.
- Support Management of Change (MOC), PHA/HAZOP, PSSR, and process safety initiatives.
- Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Process Engineering, and EHS teams.
- Provide engineering support for turnarounds, outages, and major maintenance activities.
- Evaluate equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve reliability and operating efficiency.
- Manage engineering consultants, contractors, equipment suppliers, and inspection service providers.
- Review equipment specifications, engineering designs, calculations, and vendor documentation.
- Develop department budgets, capital plans, and long-term equipment reliability strategies.
- Identify and implement technologies that improve equipment reliability and predictive maintenance.
- Relocation provided.
Requirements
- The Maintenance Manager, Fixed & Rotating Equipment, will have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline required.
- Typically requires 10+ years of experience with fixed and rotating equipment in a chemical plant, refinery, or other process manufacturing environment. 5+ years of management experience.
- Strong leadership, project management, troubleshooting, communication, and decision-making skills are required.
- Must be legally eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.