Plant Maintenance Manager
About The Position
The Plant Maintenance Manager oversees all maintenance activities for a nuclear fuel manufacturing facility, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for mechanical, electrical, and process systems. This leader directs maintenance staff, manages asset lifecycle strategies, ensures compliance with nuclear regulations, supports production operations, and drives continuous improvement in equipment reliability and work execution. The role collaborates closely with engineering, operations, safety, and regulatory teams. The Plant Maintenance Manager ensures the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of all facility equipment that supports nuclear fuel manufacturing. This role is vital for maintaining plant safety, protecting workers and the community, meeting production targets, and ensuring compliance with Federal and State regulatory requirements. Strong leadership in this position reduces operational risks, minimizes equipment downtime, and strengthens the overall safety culture within the facility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience.
- Proficiency in directing planners and schedulers.
- Proficiency in reliability engineering, using tools like Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, and Total Quality Management to conduct root cause analysis, identify and eliminate waste, improve processes, and enhance productivity.
- Experience managing both bargained and non-bargained workforces.
- Strong leadership and team‑building abilities.
- Excellent problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.
- Effective communication across technical, operational, and regulatory compliance groups.
- Ability to interact effectively with all levels of staff, management and contractors.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing tasks.
- Strong commitment to safety, quality, and procedural compliance.
- Data-driven mindset with experience using metrics to improve performance.
- Technical expertise - understanding equipment, systems, and engineering principles
- Strategic orientation
- Talent development
- Results oriented
- Customer focus
- Change champion
- Flexibility
- Innovative
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with PC-based applications such as MS office
- Proficiency with SAP
- Ability to change priorities quickly, confront issues directly and work well as part of a team.
- Organization and Time Management - managing competing priorities, schedules, results driven.
Nice To Haves
- Applicable work experience at an NRC-licensed nuclear facility, or in a highly regulated environment
- Advanced degree in an appropriate technical discipline related to work class manufacturing and industrial maintenance.
- Directly related experience is to include maintenance of chemical processing equipment and/or various production related systems.
- Five years or more leading at a manager level in an industrial production facility
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the maintenance organization, including a team of over 75 engineers, supervisors, technicians, and highly skilled craft labor, and contractors.
- Promote a strong culture of nuclear safety, human performance, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and implement predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance programs, that ensure asset reliability and regulatory compliance.
- Prioritize, schedule, and execute maintenance work to support production requirements and minimize downtime.
- Ensure all maintenance work is completed safely and in accordance with regulatory standards and internal procedures.
- Oversee maintenance planning, including procurement, spare parts management, and long-term asset planning.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for equipment failures.
- Maintain readiness for audits and regulatory inspections; ensure accurate documentation and work records.
- Coordinate with engineering on facility modifications, reliability improvements, and equipment upgrades.
- Continuous improvement of the Plant Maintenance processes, methods, and tools, to maximize the department's performance, and the Plant's infrastructure and equipment overall effectiveness.
- Manages performance of periodic and on-call calibration of plant equipment.
- Manages the spare parts program including physical inventory.
- Manages the plant equipment reliability program, including reliability engineering, to monitor and analyze the Plant equipment performance data, and achieve equipment availability targets.
- Implements best practices, standards and procedures for all maintenance activities.
- Optimize workloads and validate the demands for process improvements.
- Budgeting and cost control - Accountable for the maintenance budget development and adherence, including with monthly reviews and reporting.
- Ensures a systematic and comprehensive review on the impact and operability of systems during any maintenance activity.
Benefits
- Multiple medical plan options
- dental & vision coverage
- life insurance
- long- and short-term disability
- optional supplemental plans (critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, dependent life)
- 401(k) with employer match
- Up to 3 weeks of vacation
- 8 sick days
- 13 paid holidays annually
- Lifestyle spending account
- employer paid mental health support
- education reimbursement
- professional development opportunities
- adoption assistance
- parental leave
- employee assistance programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
