Maintenance Manager

TAMKO Careers • Tuscaloosa, AL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager leads all maintenance, reliability, and contractor support activities for TAMKO’s Tuscaloosa manufacturing facility, which operates two laminated shingle production lines and associated bulk solids, asphalt, and converting systems. This role is accountable for ensuring high equipment uptime, safe work execution, strong partnership with Operations, and the ongoing development of a skilled and highly engaged maintenance team. The Maintenance Manager is a key member of the plant leadership team, working collaboratively with Production, Engineering, Support Services, and EHS to drive overall plant performance. This leader builds a culture grounded in vulnerability-based trust, healthy debate, shared commitment, accountability, and results. The Maintenance Manager owns plant asset health and maintenance strategy, with the authority and accountability to define, enforce, and continuously improve maintenance standards that balance safety, reliability, and throughput. Essential job functions To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Engineering degree is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading maintenance in a complex, continuous manufacturing environment.
• 3-5 years of maintenance leadership experience in industrial manufacturing.
• Proven ability to lead supervisors, develop people, and build strong team alignment.
• Experience collaborating with Operations and other plant functions in a 24/7 environment.
• Strong organizational, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure, maintain accountability, and support fact-based, data-driven decisions.
• Working knowledge of electrical and instrumentation systems, controls concepts, and PLC-based automation (Siemens preferred).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, contractors, and outage activities safely and effectively.
• Experience using SAP or similar CMMS for work management and inventory is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Development Build and sustain a strong maintenance culture based on professionalism, trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability, and focus on results.
• Lead and develop a team of ~25 maintenance employees, including four direct reports (2 mechanical supervisors, 1 controls supervisor, 1 reliability engineer).
• Coach supervisors and technicians; guide technical development, training, and performance management.
• Participate in hiring and on-boarding of technicians, supervisors, and planners.
• Maintain a strong daily presence on the plant floor to understand equipment conditions, support supervisors, and model safety and reliability expectations.
• Partner closely with Operations and Engineering leadership to ensure plant-wide alignment and teamwork.
• Drive measurable improvements in equipment availability, unplanned downtime, maintenance cost effectiveness, and overall equipment reliability.
• Maintenance Execution Ensure safe, effective, and timely execution of work in a 24/7 production environment.
• Oversee mechanical, electrical, controls, and reliability work across conveyors, elevators, mills, asphalt systems, fired heaters, web-handling equipment, palletizers, and other production systems.
• Support troubleshooting during breakdowns and engage as needed to resolve issues quickly and safely.
• Ensure notifications, work orders, planning, and execution through SAP meet TAMKO standards.
• Promote proactive maintenance by emphasizing PM compliance, reducing break-in work, and optimizing labor utilization.
• Remain informed of weekly maintenance schedules developed by supervisors; ensure alignment with production priorities.
• Reliability & Continuous Improvement Partner closely with the Reliability Engineer to drive PM optimization, predictive technologies, and reliability improvements.
• Provide leadership for RCPEs when triggered by downtime, waste, safety, environmental, or quality events; ensure follow-up actions are completed and present findings to plant leadership.
• Monitor key reliability metrics (e.g., PM compliance, break-in work) and drive actions to improve equipment performance.
• Support deployment and sustainment of reliability tools and programs across the plant.
• Ensure strong maintenance planning and scheduling discipline, with clear weekly schedules, backlog management, and labor efficiency expectations.
• Develop and maintain a long-term asset lifecycle and capital replacement strategy in partnership with Engineering and Plant Leadership.
• Project Management Lead planning and oversight for down-day and shutdown activities, typically coordinating up to 25 contractors.
• Manage maintenance capital projects and major replacements, delegate project execution to supervisors, lead technicians, or the reliability engineer.
• Ensure effective coordination with Operations, Engineering, and Support Services during project and down-day activities.
• Safety & Compliance Oversee maintenance safety programs and ensure compliance with LOTO, contractor safety, hot work, and confined space requirements.
• Support regulatory inspections including boilers, pressure vessels, and relief devices.
• Lead expectations for safe work practices and reinforce safety training across the maintenance organization.
• Financial Management Develops, manages, and optimizes the annual maintenance budget, ensuring responsible stewardship of spending aligned with plant priorities.
• Reallocate resources as needed to support uptime, maintenance strategy, and cost effectiveness.
• Support cost optimization efforts while maintaining strong operational reliability.

Benefits

• In addition to competitive wages, TAMKO offers a comprehensive benefits package, including Group Health and Life Insurance, Vision and Dental Insurance, a Flexible Benefits Plan, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, a Profit Sharing Retirement Plan, and other valuable benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees