Maintenance Strategy Director – Multi-Site Mining

Mackinnon Bruce International; Arizona; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mackinnon Bruce International seeks a Director of Maintenance Strategy & Planning to lead development and implementation of maintenance strategies across a large, multi-site mining operation in North America. The role will standardize practices, improve reliability, and maximize asset lifecycle value.

The successful candidate will partner with site operations, engineering, reliability, supply chain, and capital projects to drive performance, reduce risk, and enable data-driven decisions using

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mining, Maintenance, Reliability or related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, asset management, or maintenance engineering.
• Strong understanding of fixed plant equipment and heavy mining equipment.
• Proven experience developing and implementing maintenance strategies across multiple sites or large-scale operations.
• Extensive knowledge of reliability engineering, failure analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance, and risk-based maintenance methodologies.
• Strong understanding of the complete planning and scheduling lifecycle, including prioritization, planning, labour estimation, materials readiness, and feedback.
• Experience standardizing maintenance processes, systems, and performance measures across decentralized operations.
• Expertise in asset lifecycle management, equipment availability, outage planning, and cost optimization.
• Experience using CMMS platforms such as SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) and maintenance data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and govern a standardized maintenance strategy across multiple operations.
• Apply reliability engineering methodologies (RCM, FMEA, RCFA) to reduce failures and improve performance.
• Establish consistent maintenance planning and scheduling processes and ensure proper scoping and resourcing.
• Define procedures, standards, responsibilities, and metrics across sites.
• Develop frameworks for asset lifecycle decisions (maintain/ refurbish/ upgrade/ replace).
• Optimize outage frequency, duration, and timing with production constraints.
• Capture lessons from failures and maintenance interventions; share best practices.
• Oversee end-to-end maintenance work management from work identification to closeout.
• Leverage CMMS, analytics, and condition monitoring to improve decisions.
• Collaborate with site leadership, engineering, finance, and supply chain to align strategies.

Skills

Maintenance Strategy

Reliability Engineering

Planning & Scheduling

Asset Lifecycle

Outage Management

Continuous Improvement

Work Management

CMMS

Data Analytics

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Mining Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS Tools

Job description

Mackinnon Bruce International seeks a Director of Maintenance Strategy & Planning to lead development and implementation of maintenance strategies across a large, multi-site mining operation in North America. The role will standardize practices, improve reliability, and maximize asset lifecycle value.

The successful candidate will partner with site operations, engineering, reliability, supply chain, and capital projects to drive performance, reduce risk, and enable data-driven decisions using