C2506 – Director of Maintenance

The Bama Companies, Inc.; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bama Companies, Inc. seeks a Director of Maintenance to lead a centralized maintenance strategy across its manufacturing footprint.

The role emphasizes reliability-centered practices, predictive and preventive maintenance, and data-driven asset management to boost uptime and reduce R&M costs. The successful candidate will be a hands-on change agent and strong people leader, standardizing maintenance philosophy across facilities while respecting local needs.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to reduce maintenance costs while improving reliability and uptime.
• Deep knowledge of preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead centralized maintenance strategy across multiple facilities.
• Modernize maintenance organization for reliability and uptime.
• Partner with Plant Managers and cross-functional teams to align maintenance with operational goals.
• Serve as hands-on change agent and establish standardized maintenance processes.

Skills

Change leadership

Standardized processes

Financial analysis

RCM concepts

CMMS knowledge

Automation experience

Asset management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Operations, or related technical field

Tools

CMMS software

PLC/Robotics/Automation

Job description

C2506 – Director of Maintenance

Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt Employment Type: Full Time

Description

The Director of Maintenance will lead the development and execution of a centralized maintenance strategy across The Bama Companies' manufacturing operations. This role is responsible for modernizing Bama's maintenance organization, improving equipment reliability and uptime, reducing repair and maintenance (R&M) costs, and establishing consistent maintenance systems, standards, and accountability across all facilities.

This leader will bring a proactive, reliability-centered approach to maintenance-moving the organization from a primarily reactive model toward predictive and preventive maintenance, disciplined planning and scheduling, effective root-cause analysis, and data-driven asset management.

The Director will partner closely with Plant Managers, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain to ensure maintenance strategy directly supports Bama's operational, financial, quality, and customer-service objectives.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on change agent and strong people leader who can establish a common maintenance philosophy across multiple facilities while respecting the unique needs of each operation.

This position reports to: Vice President of Operations

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Operations, or related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated success reducing maintenance costs while improving equipment reliability and uptime.
• Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving CMMS.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling, spare-parts management, and maintenance KPIs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and establish standardized processes across multiple locations.
• Strong financial and analytical skills with the ability to connect maintenance decisions to business results.
• Experience working in a highly automated manufacturing environment.

Preferred Skills/Education/Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability, engineering, or asset management.
• Significant leadership experience across multiple manufacturing facilities or a similarly complex operating environment.
• Strong leadership abilities with solid track record and relationships in the food industry, specifically food service preferred.
• Experience with industrial automation, PLCs, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing systems.
• Experience developing predictive maintenance programs.
• Experience leading centralized or shared-services maintenance organizations.

Bama is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce