Title: Maintenance Manager

Location: Canada

Department: Maintenance

Reports to: General Manager

Position Summary:

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for the overall planning, direction, and coordination of all maintenance activities. This includes fixed and mobile equipment maintenance, mill maintenance, and infrastructure support. The ideal candidate will lead a diverse team of supervisors, planners, and tradespeople to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the site’s assets. This position plays a key role in strategic planning, asset reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead by example to exemplify the Company's core values: Protect, Develop, and Deliver.
• Lead the project's Maintenance and Warehousing Strategy and Requirements development during Front-End-Loading to establish an optimal, high-performance mining, process, and surface infrastructure maintenance and warehousing/distribution systems approach, working with the Mine and Process Managers.
• Leads the evaluation and selection of mining mobile equipment and mining fixed plant equipment, process plant fixed equipment, and surface support mobile equipment.
• Reviews and has significant input on all mine, processing, and surface infrastructure facilities and equipment to ensure operability and maintainability considerations and requirements are reflected in equipment specifications and facilities designs. 
• Leads the fixed plant and surface equipment fleet maintenance strategy and approach, considering remote operating locations.
• Enforce company and department safety and occupational health policies and MSHA regulations. Foster an accident-free and safe working environment.
• Administer all maintenance functions within federal, state, and local regulations. Minimize maintenance’s impact on the environment.
• Lead and manage all mine site maintenance functions, including mobile equipment, mill, facilities, and infrastructure.
• Oversee the implementation of maintenance improvement initiatives endorsed by site leadership and corporate programs using data and performance metrics to identify opportunities.
• Develop and oversee execution of preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment availability and reliability.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of maintenance supervisors, planners, and skilled tradespeople.
• Manage maintenance budgets, forecast costs, and monitor spending to ensure cost-effective operations.
• Work closely with operations, engineering, and procurement to optimize maintenance strategies and project execution.
• Oversee inventory management of critical spare parts and materials, ensuring availability while controlling costs.
• Lead root cause analyses and failure investigations to prevent recurrence of equipment issues.
• Coordinate contractor and vendor services to supplement internal resources when necessary.
• Support capital project planning and execution as related to infrastructure and asset upgrades.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Ability to work safe and promote safe behavior in others with a commitment to health, safety, and environmental stewardship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum of 10 years of maintenance experience in the mining, heavy industrial, or manufacturing sector, with at least 5 years in a management leadership role.
• Strong understanding of mining equipment, mill operations, and asset management principles.
• Proficient in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), and ERP software such as Oracle, JD Edwards, SAP or similar software preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, teams, and complex maintenance schedules.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Familiar with “servant leadership” model and strong desire to support the success of those below.
• Strong computer skills including a working knowledge Microsoft Office Suites.



Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean or Six Sigma certification and familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM).
• Familiarity with MSHA regulations and best practices
• An engineering degree is preferred.