Maintenance Manager

Reworld Projects; Haverhill (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reworld is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance and reliability at a major waste-to-energy facility. You will oversee a team of Mechanics, Welders, and Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, directing maintenance planning, outages, and reliability initiatives to maximize asset availability.

Reporting to site leadership, you will shape maintenance strategy, manage budgets, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring safe, compliant operations and cost-effective

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance and reliability in power generation or similar continuous-process environments.
• Proven ability to develop and execute maintenance strategies to maximize equipment availability.

Responsibilities

• Promote a strong culture of safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies to improve reliability and reduce operating costs
• Lead maintenance planning, outage execution, predictive and preventive maintenance programs, reliability initiatives, budgeting, and workforce planning
• Oversee maintenance shops and craft personnel, and coach a high-performance team
• Develop and maintain a rolling 5-year site maintenance strategy
• Establish a maintenance metrics dashboard and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Lead the site Work Management Program (WM) and coordinate with Operations, Engineering, and EHS leadership

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Reliability engineering

Outage management

Rotating equipment

Boilers and turbines

Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I)

Predictive maintenance

CMMS

Asset management

Safety leadership

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Who we are

For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.

Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance and reliability operations at one of Reworld's high-performing waste-to-energy power generation facilities. This role is ideal for maintenance leaders with experience in power plants, waste-to-energy, utilities, heavy industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, pulp and paper, refining, or other continuous-process environments. Candidates with expertise in asset management, reliability engineering, rotating equipment, boilers, turbines, electrical and instrumentation systems (E&I), predictive maintenance, outage management, CMMS, and continuous improvement can make an immediate, lasting impact. Reporting directly to plant leadership, the Maintenance Manager will be a key member of the site's leadership team, responsible for driving safety, reliability, workforce development, and long-term asset performance.

At Reworld, you'll have the opportunity to lead critical infrastructure that powers communities while advancing sustainability by converting waste into renewable energy. Beyond managing maintenance activities, you'll help shape site strategy, influence capital investment decisions, develop skilled maintenance professionals, and drive reliability improvements that directly impact plant performance. We offer the stability of an essential infrastructure business, meaningful leadership responsibility, strong compensation and benefits, career growth opportunities, and the ability to make a visible difference within both the facility and the communities we serve.

The Maintenance Manager provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for all maintenance and reliability activities across the site. This position develops and executes maintenance strategies that maximize equipment availability, improve operational performance, and ensure the safe, cost-effective operation of critical plant assets. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, and EHS leadership, the successful candidate will lead teams of Mechanics, Welders, and Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians while overseeing maintenance planning, outage execution, predictive and preventive maintenance programs, reliability initiatives, budgeting, workforce planning, and continuous improvement efforts. This role offers the rare opportunity to combine hands-on operational leadership with long-term asset strategy in an industry that is essential, environmentally beneficial, and positioned for continued growth.

Key Objectives

• Serve as a Safety Leader, ensuring safety is integrated into all maintenance planning and execution activities
• Partner closely with Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) teams, with a goal of zero incidents and continuous EHS performance improvement
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce risk, improve productivity and efficiency, and control maintenance costs

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote a strong culture of safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence
• Ensure maintenance and reliability best practices are consistently followed across the site
• Provide leadership and expertise during events impacting site safety, health, and environmental performance
• Plan, develop, and implement maintenance strategies, procedures, and methods to improve equipment reliability, reduce operating costs, and optimize labor and material utilization
• Lead the selection, assignment, coaching, development, and performance management of maintenance personnel
• Manage maintenance shops comprising mechanical and E&I crafts
• Forecast maintenance staffing needs and support hiring and workforce planning
• Develop and maintain a rolling 5-year site maintenance strategy
• Establish and maintain a maintenance metrics dashboard to drive performance and prioritize improvement initiatives
• Develop annual and monthly maintenance budgets and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Build and sustain a strong cost-management structure that identifies short- and long-term cost-reduction opportunities
• Lead the site Work Management Program (WM