Senior Maintenance Manager

The role

The Senior Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance department to build a proactive and predictable function. You will own maintenance, planning and scheduling, spares, and reliability for a heavy industrial battery recycling plant.

What you will do

• Accountability for mechanical and electrical maintenance across the site and equipment availability.
• Implement a disciplined work management process for planning and scheduling.
• Execute reliability strategies including PM optimization, condition monitoring, defect elimination, and root cause analysis.
• Manage critical spares strategy and storeroom discipline.
• Lead a department through managers spanning maintenance execution, planning, reliability, and materials.
• Develop leaders and provide safety leadership for a metallurgical processing environment.
• Manage maintenance spend across labor, materials, and contractors.

Required qualifications

• Engineering degree or trade background with equivalent senior experience
• 10+ years in maintenance and reliability in heavy industry, such as mining, mineral processing, smelting, cement, or similar continuous-process environments
• A track record of building proactive, planned maintenance organizations
• Experience leading through managers and building leadership capability
• Strong grounding in work management, reliability engineering, and shutdown execution
• Safety leadership in industrial environments
• Calm, direct, and able to hold a standard while bringing a team along

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals. The company runs a continuous, heavy industrial plant built around rotary kilns, shredders, mills, and conveyors.