Maintenance & Reliability Leader

Seven Seas Water Corporation; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Seven Seas Water Group seeks a Maintenance & Reliability Leader to direct maintenance, reliability engineering, and asset management across SWRO plants and desalination facilities in the Tampa area. The role reports to the General Manager and collaborates with the Senior Leadership Team, with up to 50% travel.

Lead a zero-incident safety culture, drive PCM, Lean Six Sigma initiatives, and ensure robust asset data in IFS. You’ll mentor supervisors and shape capital planning.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in maintenance and reliability in water treatment, desalination, or heavy industry.
• Hands-on SWRO or large-scale RO/desalination system experience.
• Experience with asset management and maintenance workflows in ERP/EAM systems.

Responsibilities

• Direct maintenance, reliability, and asset-management programs across SWRO assets.
• Lead Reliability Centered Maintenance and risk-based inspection efforts.
• Set KPIs (OEE, MTBF, MTTR) and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee spare parts strategy, inventory optimization, and budget planning.
• Mentor maintenance supervisors, planners, and technicians.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance leadership

Lean Six Sigma

Root cause analysis

ERP / IFS systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering

Professional certification (PE, CRE, CMRP)

Tools

IFS ERP

SAP PM

Maximo

Job description

Maintenance & Reliability Leader — Own reliability and asset performance across our SWRO and desalination plants

Seven Seas Water Group is looking for a Maintenance & Reliability Leader to direct maintenance, reliability engineering, and asset management across our water treatment and desalination facilities, with a primary focus on Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) systems. You'll report to the General Manager and regularly report out progress and performance to our Senior Leadership Team, including our CEO. This role is based in Tampa and our HQ, but requires up to 50% travel for multi-site support.

Who we are

Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers more than 20 billion gallons of water a year to industrial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Through our Water-as-a-Service® (WaaS®) model, we design, build, own, and operate more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants, taking on the capital and operational risk so our customers don't have to. SSWG is a portfolio company of EQT, a global investment firm with more than three decades of experience building essential infrastructure.

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Requirements

What you'll own

You'll champion a zero-incident safety culture, making sure every maintenance activity meets LOTO, confined space, and pressure system requirements, and support Process Safety Management and Management of Change work as it comes up. Alongside our Quality Manager, you'll drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, or TPM methodologies against an ISO 9000 framework, and keep our equipment documentation, drawings, and maintenance procedures current and accessible.

You'll own the site's reliability and maintenance strategy end to end. That means leading Reliability Centered Maintenance and Risk-Based Inspection programs across our critical SWRO assets, from high-pressure pumps and energy recovery devices to membrane trains and pre-treatment systems, and setting the KPIs, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, and corrective-to-preventive ratio, that tell us how we're doing. You'll run root cause analysis and FMEA to stop repeat failures, manage membrane cleaning and replacement programs to keep flux, rejection, and recovery where they need to be, and make sure we stay compliant with our desalination operating permits and discharge limits.

On the systems side, you'll drive full use of IFS as our maintenance and asset management platform, from work order creation through closure, and own our spare parts strategy and inventory optimization, including min/max levels and critical spares availability. You'll use IFS reporting to support budget forecasting and capital planning, and partner with IT, Engineering, and EHS to keep the platform's data and workflows in good shape.

You'll also lead, mentor, and develop our maintenance supervisors, planners and schedulers, reliability engineers, and technicians, whether that reporting is direct or indirect, and help shape opex and capex planning around real cost-reduction opportunities that don't put reliability or safety at risk.

What you bring

• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 8 to 10 years of progressive maintenance and reliability experience in water treatment, desalination, or heavy industrial environments
• Hands‑on experience with SWRO or large‑scale RO/desalination systems, including high-pressure pump maintenance, membrane management, and pre/post-treatment equipment
• Experience implementing or managing IFS ERP, or an equivalent EAM platform such as SAP PM or Maximo, for work management, asset tracking, and spare parts control
• 3 to 5 years in a leadership or supervisory role managing multi-discipline maintenance teams
• A professional certification (PE, CRE, CMRP, or equivalent) is a plus, not a requirement
• We're looking for a strong, data‑driven leader who can influence and develop a team, translate technical detail for non-technical stakeholders, and stay organized under competing priorities in a fast‑paced operational environment.

Why this role

You'd be the person our General Manager and Senior Leadership Team look to for the reliability and uptime of some of our most critical water infrastructure. If you want a role where your strategy and your team's execution directly move the needle on plant availability and cost, this is that seat.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Applicant will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire