Maintenance Strategy Manager

Riot Platforms, Inc.

6d • $160,000 - $170,000 • Remote

About The Position

Riot is seeking a Maintenance Strategy Manager to build and lead the maintenance strategy for its data center portfolio. The role translates reliability analysis, including FMEA and RCM, into equipment strategies, task standards, and intervals for maintaining every asset class, and owns the global maintenance library and Master Maintenance Index.

The manager will lead Riot’s accelerated maintenance insourcing strategy by determining which vendor scopes move to internal crews, the order of transitions, and readiness requirements. In partnership with a Technical Training counterpart, the manager ensures each insourced scope has a complete, field-ready maintenance package and appropriately qualified technicians.

The role manages critical maintenance and repair vendor relationships and partners with the Data Center Asset Manager and site leadership, who own day-to-day execution and backlog. This is a portfolio-wide remote position with travel to Riot sites as needed.

Requirements

• 7+ years in maintenance strategy, reliability-centered maintenance, or maintenance planning in data center, industrial, or other critical infrastructure environments.
• Track record of building an equipment strategy library and governing maintenance tasks and intervals at multi-site scale.
• Knowledge of preventive, predictive, condition-based, and run-to-failure models, and when each applies.
• Experience managing maintenance and repair vendor relationships, including SLAs, performance scorecards, performance reviews, and escalations.
• Experience defining technical, safety, and certification requirements for maintenance work and partnering with training teams, SMEs, and site operations to develop SOPs/MOPs and qualification programs.
• Strong analytical skills with reliability KPIs such as MTBF, MTTR, and PM compliance, and ability to turn data into strategy changes.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related field; equivalent experience is considered.
• CMRP or CMPS (Certificate in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling).
• Experience leading maintenance insourcing or make-vs-buy decisions, including moving scopes from vendors to internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance insourcing roadmap by setting scope-selection criteria, sequencing transitions, and enforcing readiness gates before vendor work moves to internal teams.
• Set standards for complete maintenance packages, develop them with EHS, site SMEs, OEMs, and vendors, and approve them before scopes go live.
• Define required skills, certifications, and qualification levels based on code, regulatory, and OEM requirements, and partner with Technical Training to prepare training alongside each maintenance package.
• Build and govern the equipment strategy library, documenting run-to-failure, preventive, condition-based, and predictive strategies for each asset class based on FMEA/RCM analysis.
• Own the Master Maintenance Index, link task templates and intervals to equipment strategies, set interval review triggers, and route out-of-tolerance changes through the Change Management Standard.
• Manage critical maintenance and repair vendors, including qualification and onboarding, SLAs, two-way scorecards, performance reviews, escalations, alignment to Riot standards, and transitions of scopes in-house.
• Help sites prioritize work by asset criticality and deferral risk; serve as an escalation point for strategy and vendor support; direct site-based Asset & Maintenance Planners; and elevate repeat or high-risk deferrals to leadership.
• Track PM completion, planned-to-emergency ratio, and reliability KPIs to address over-maintenance and recurring failures.
• Provide failure history to the Data Center Asset Manager to support Priority 1/2 repair, refurbish, or replace decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary of $160,000–$170,000, commensurate with experience, plus bonus and sign-on equity grant.
• Eligibility to participate in Riot’s equity incentive programs.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Multiple medical plan options, including 100% company-paid plans.
• Free gym memberships.
• Pet insurance.
• Childcare discounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior