Manager - Maintenance Engineering (Winnemucca, NV, USA)
Orica Limited
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Orica Winnemucca is seeking a Manager - Maintenance Engineering to lead maintenance and asset management at the Winnemucca Cyanide Manufacturing Facility. You will develop strategies to maximize equipment availability, improve reliability, and drive operational excellence across the site.
The role reports to the Site Manager and collaborates with Operations, SHES, Technical and Capital Projects teams. The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in industrial maintenance, 5+ years in leadership, and
Qualifications
- 10+ years in industrial maintenance
- 90
- 5+ years in maintenance/engineering leadership
- Experience in chemical processing or continuous processes
- Proven success improving asset reliability and managing maintenance costs
- Experience leading multidisciplinary maintenance teams
Responsibilities
- Lead safety leadership and Zero Harm culture across the site
- Develop and execute maintenance and asset reliability strategies
- Plan and schedule maintenance to optimize plant availability
- Manage outages, shutdowns, and maintenance turnarounds
- Lead a multidisciplinary maintenance team and mentor staff
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Date: 12 Oct 2026
Location: Winnemucca, NV, US, 89445
Company: Orica
Orica has been recognized as one of the top companies for women to work for in the transportation industry by the Women in Trucking Association (WIT) in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
We are seeking a Manager - Maintenance Engineering to lead all maintenance and asset management activities at our Winnemucca Cyanide Manufacturing Facility for Orica Specialty Mining Chemicals.
This is a critical leadership role responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of plant assets while supporting uninterrupted production. Reporting to the Site Manager, the successful candidate will develop and execute maintenance strategies that maximize equipment availability, improve reliability, extend asset life, and drive operational excellence across the site.
As a key member of the site leadership team, you will collaborate closely with Operations, SHES, Technical, and Capital Projects teams to deliver outstanding business outcomes while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Champion a culture of Zero Harm and visible safety leadership.
- Ensure compliance with all Orica SHES requirements, regulatory obligations, and company standards.
- Drive and Lead hazard identification, incident investigations, and corrective action initiatives.
- Support process safety, Management of Change (MOC), and major hazard management programs.
- Drive continuous improvement in equipment integrity and environmental performance.
- Develop and execute site-wide maintenance and asset reliability strategies.
- Establish preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Lead reliability improvement initiatives and root cause failure analyses.
- Monitor maintenance performance metrics and implement improvement plans.
- Drive long-term asset management planning across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control systems.
- Lead maintenance planning and scheduling activities to optimize plant availability.
- Manage work processes through SAP or approved maintenance management systems.
- Coordinate shutdowns, outages, and maintenance turnaround activities.
- Support major capital investment.
- Ensure effective backlog management, work prioritization, and accurate maintenance history capture.
- Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance team.
- Build organizational capability through mentoring, training, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of extreme ownership, collaboration, and high performance.
- Partner effectively across site functions and corporate support teams.
- Support reliability programs and long-term asset strategies.
- Identify opportunities to improve equipment performance and maintenance effectiveness.
- Develop and manage the annual maintenance budget.
- Optimize contractor performance, equipment lifecycle costs, and spare parts inventory.
- Minimum 10 years of industrial maintenance experience.
- Minimum 5 years in a maintenance / engineering leadership role.
- Experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, mining, oil & gas, or other continuous process environments.
- Demonstrated success improving asset reliability, managing maintenance costs, and leading outage execution.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary maintenance teams.
- Strong commitment to safety leadership.
- Expertise in maintenance work management and reliability engineering.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities.
- Effective stakeholder management and excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge of process safety and major hazard environments.
- Experience with CMMS platforms, preferably SAP.
- Strong continuous improvement mindset.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Professional certifications in reliability, maintenance management, or asset management are highly regarded.
- Five direct reports and nine indirect reports.
- Member of the site leadership team
- Must be open to reporting to the site five days a week
- Will be on the on call roster for site management and, as such, must be available on call weekends.
As part of a truly global company, you will have the ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture. We foster relationships and learning through connected global and local teams, promote flexible and diverse career paths and support the development of your knowledge and skills.
You will be paid a competitive salary, learn from talented individuals across multiple disciplines and be able to thrive in a safe workplace within a collaborative culture. Ignite your career at a place where your distinct potential can find its home.
Salary to be determined by the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Medical/Prescription Drug – Two (2) plans to choose from
- Dental – One (1) plan to choose from
- Vision – One (1) plan to choose from
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Basic Employee Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Voluntary Employee/Dependent Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Company provided Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Company provided Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) + Company Match– 100% vested on first day.
- Company provided Bonding Leave
- Accrued Paid Time Off
- Paid Sick & Safe Time
- Nine (9) Scheduled Holidays + Two (2) Floating Holidays
Orica is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are a Drug-free workplace.
Orica promotes and fosters a culture of inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment everywhere we operate. We treat our people and applicants with fairness, dignity, and respect, getting the best of everyone’s contributions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, nationality, age, military or veteran, marital or disability status.
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