Senior SAP Plant Maintenance Business Partner
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced Senior SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Business Partner / Functional Lead to support MP Materials’ operations across multiple sites, including magnet manufacturing in Fort Worth, Texas and mining and refining operations in Mountain Pass, California. This role aligns within MP Materials’ SAP Center of Excellence operating model and serves as the enterprise SAP functional lead for Plant Maintenance across the organization. This position is responsible for ensuring SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition effectively supports maintenance, reliability, and asset management processes across equipment lifecycle management, preventive maintenance, and work execution. The role works closely with Materials Management (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) to ensure end-to-end integration from maintenance planning through material staging, execution, and cost settlement. The role serves as the SAP process owner and design authority for Plant Maintenance (PM), combining strategic business partnership with hands-on SAP system configuration. In addition to operational leadership, this position is expected to strategically advance MP Materials’ maintenance capabilities toward an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) operating model, introducing automation, governance, and lifecycle discipline to strengthen asset reliability and cost transparency across the enterprise. This position requires a strategic thinker capable of balancing operational realities with long-term enterprise design, comfortable operating as both a hands-on functional expert and a domain authority. The successful candidate will demonstrate ownership, accountability, and the ability to influence senior operations and reliability leaders while advancing MP Materials’ asset management maturity over time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of SAP Plant Maintenance functional experience
- Proven hands-on SAP PM configuration expertise
- Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA (Cloud, Private Edition, or on-premise)
- Demonstrated experience integrating PM with MM and FI/CO
- Experience in asset-intensive industrial, mining, or manufacturing environments
- Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional leadership capabilities
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading maintenance transformation or EAM maturity initiatives
- Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and preventive/predictive maintenance strategies
- Exposure to Fiori enablement / mobile application architectures
- Experience supporting multi-site industrial operations
- Ability to communicate across IT functional and technical disciplines
- Self-starter with proactive management style
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic industrial environment
- Strong business partnership and stakeholder management skills
- Detail-oriented with a disciplined approach to system design and delivery
Responsibilities
- Serve as the enterprise SAP PM domain owner across Fort Worth and Mountain Pass operations, acting as process authority and design governance lead for maintenance and asset management
- Lead hands-on configuration and optimization of SAP Plant Maintenance within S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition, including equipment and functional locations, maintenance plans and strategies, task lists, work orders, refurbishment processes, and preventive/corrective execution
- Establish scalable asset hierarchies, master data standards, and configuration governance
- Advance preventive maintenance strategies toward predictive and condition-based methodologies where operationally appropriate
- Introduce automation to streamline maintenance planning, material staging, work execution, workflow management, and cost settlement processes
- Ensure tight integration between PM and MM, FI/CO, and PP to support spare parts planning, inventory consumption, capitalization, cost control, downtime coordination, and production impact management
- Partner with Operations leadership to improve asset performance, reduce downtime, and enhance cost visibility through meaningful KPIs (e.g., MTBF, MTTR, backlog health)
- Collaborate with SAP development resources on enhancements, Fiori enablement, reporting improvements, and integration scenarios with external systems
- Support capital project teams to strengthen asset commissioning and handoff into operational maintenance
- Enforce disciplined change management, documentation standards, testing participation, and continuous system optimization within the PM domain and cost transparency across the enterprise.
- Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap to mature SAP PM capabilities toward a comprehensive EAM framework, including asset lifecycle governance and cross-site harmonization
- Regular travel and engagement with operations teams in Fort Worth and Mountain Pass required
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
