Maintenance Manager

ArcelorMittal • Portland, TX

14d

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager leads a rotational-shift maintenance team responsible for safely and reliably executing maintenance activities that support plant operations. The role provides frontline leadership, coaching, mentoring, and workforce development while driving safety, reliability, productivity, and continuous improvement. It partners with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Reliability, and other departments to align and execute maintenance work with business objectives. The manager is accountable for building team capability, supporting succession planning, and fostering safety, accountability, teamwork, and operational excellence.

The position oversees workforce planning and development; maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution; performance and reliability metrics; safety investigations and corrective actions; shutdowns, turnarounds, and capital projects; maintenance budgets and costs; SAP maintenance records; spare-parts strategies; and maintenance procedures and training documentation. It monitors equipment performance and emerging risks, maintains cross-functional relationships, promotes ArcelorMittal values and leadership expectations, and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• At least 8 years of industrial maintenance experience in heavy industrial, manufacturing, steel, mining, petrochemical, power generation, or a similar production environment.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience overseeing maintenance personnel, contractors, or maintenance-related projects.
• Hands-on mechanical maintenance experience with rotating equipment, conveyors, material handling systems, pumps, compressors, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics, bearings, and power-transmission equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting complex mechanical equipment failures and leading root cause analyses.
• Understanding of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices.
• Experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, backlog management, and shutdown/turnaround execution.
• Experience using SAP PM or a comparable computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Knowledge of industrial safety requirements, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), confined-space entry, hot-work permitting, mobile-equipment safety, and contractor management.
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor, and develop maintenance personnel while driving accountability, safety, reliability, and performance expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate across operations, maintenance, engineering, and reliability functions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to analyze maintenance metrics, equipment history, and reliability data to support continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a rotational-shift maintenance team to meet safety, reliability, productivity, and performance objectives.
• Set performance expectations and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Identify workforce capability gaps and develop training, qualification, and development plans.
• Support talent development, succession planning, and career progression.
• Oversee workforce planning, including staffing, scheduling, recruitment, onboarding, employee development, and disciplinary actions.
• Promote ownership, teamwork, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Maintenance Planners, Reliability, Engineering, and Operations to prioritize, schedule, and execute maintenance activities.
• Ensure maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Review maintenance performance metrics, KPIs, and reliability data to identify opportunities and drive improvements.
• Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, layered safety audits, and corrective-action implementation.
• Support shutdown, turnaround, and capital-project planning and execution.
• Oversee maintenance budgets and control costs while maintaining equipment reliability and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure accurate SAP maintenance records, notifications, work orders, labor reporting, and material transactions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Procurement, and Reliability to optimize spare-parts strategies and inventory management.
• Develop, review, and maintain maintenance procedures, standard operating procedures, work instructions, training materials, and management-of-change documentation.
• Monitor equipment performance, maintenance effectiveness, and emerging risks to address reliability concerns proactively.
• Build cross-departmental working relationships to support communication, problem solving, and alignment of maintenance priorities.
• Promote ArcelorMittal values, leadership expectations, and a positive team culture.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED