Maintenance Manager

Divert•Longview, WA

17d•Onsite

About The Position

Divert is a circular economy company working to prevent food waste through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Its Integrated Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) plant receives unsold food, analyzes it, separates packaging from organics, and processes the organic material through anaerobic digestion. The resulting renewable natural gas is sold to a local pipeline, reducing waste sent to landfills. The Maintenance Manager is part of the Site Leadership team and oversees day-to-day and strategic technical programs at the Longview RNG plant. The role ensures that plant equipment and systems operate optimally across front-end processes, including bin washing, de-packaging and wasted-food processing, and back-end processes, including wastewater treatment, biogas purification and filtration. The manager leads the on-site maintenance program and works with cross-functional partners to support the company’s growth and success.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or associate degree in mechanical, maintenance or another related industrial field from an accredited program, or equivalent experience in maintenance management, planning and scheduling, and preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance.
Five to eight years of maintenance or operations experience in industrial environments such as manufacturing, energy, chemical or wastewater treatment, including leadership and management.
Experience maintaining and troubleshooting technical, complex operational systems, including distributed control systems and PLCs.
Hands-on experience and knowledge working with large industrial equipment such as motors, pumps, gearboxes, agitators, large rotating equipment, screw conveyors, chain and belt conveyors, screw presses and hammermills.
Experience with pneumatic control valves and actuators.
Experience with pressurized liquid and gas systems, chemical handling and storage, plant-level electrical distribution, and instrumentation and control systems.
Strong organizational and planning abilities, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency managing a CMMS for equipment maintenance execution.
Proficiency coaching, training and developing maintenance personnel.
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication.
Excellent computer competence, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and CMMS software.
Ability to manage several priorities at one time.

Nice To Haves

CMRP certification, or understanding and experience with CMRP practices and procedures.

Responsibilities

Maintain Divert’s plant culture by implementing processes that support empowerment and structured independence.
Promote a safe work environment through culture, training and reinforcement of best practices.
Ensure established operating discipline is consistently maintained.
Manage and execute the plant technical training program, including technician onboarding, safety training, CMMS use, proactive and predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance completion and troubleshooting.
Coach and mentor technicians to advance their technical skills.
Develop procedures and plans for major maintenance work, such as centrifuge replacement, tank inspections and membrane service.
Manage maintenance and reliability processes, including the preventive maintenance program, spare parts inventory, planning and scheduling, CMMS data entry and analysis, budget development, lubrication and condition-based maintenance.
Lead root-cause analyses of equipment failures and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
Generate and share weekly and monthly asset-utilization performance information, using KPIs to guide resource allocation.
Lead equipment and process assessments, including asset criticality and FMEA.
Direct daily maintenance operations, including work planning, scheduling, assignment and completion review.
Manage contractors performing plant repairs, maintenance and improvements.
Write purchase orders and hold vendors accountable to standards defined in statements of work for third-party and contractor work.