Mining Maintenance Manager – Restart Readiness

First Majestic Silver Corp-Jerritt Canyon Gold; Elko (NV); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

First Majestic Silver Corp-Jerritt Canyon Gold seeks an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance readiness across mobile equipment, plant, and process infrastructure at the Nevada site. You will guide restart planning, asset refurbishments, and compliance efforts to ensure safe, reliable operations.

The ideal candidate brings 10–15+ years in mining maintenance, strong leadership, budgeting, and CMMS (SAP) proficiency, with a focus on asset integrity and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, or related field.
• 10-15+ years of progressive maintenance experience in mining or heavy industrial environments.
• Demonstrated leadership managing multi-disciplinary maintenance teams through shutdowns or restarts.
• Strong understanding of maintenance strategies, asset refurbishment, and reliability-centered maintenance.
• Experience with maintenance planning and CMMS systems (e.g., SAP).
• Proven ability to manage budgets, costs, and resource allocation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee maintenance readiness and restart activities across mobile equipment, fixed plant, and process infrastructure.
• Provide leadership to maintenance superintendents, supervisors, planners, and technical teams during restart planning and execution.
• Develop and execute maintenance restart strategies focused on asset integrity, refurbishment, and safe recommissioning.
• Direct asset condition assessments and develop detailed scopes, schedules, and budgets for refurbishment and readiness work.
• Ensure effective maintenance planning and scheduling processes are established prior to restart.
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance programs required to support commissioning and ramp-up.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive maintenance records to support compliance, tracking, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and readiness metrics, identifying risks and driving corrective action.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain to secure critical spares, long-lead materials, and contractor support.
• Manage maintenance restart and operating budgets, including forecasting, cost control, and variance management.
• Support capital projects, equipment installations, refurbishments, and commissioning activities.
• Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements during restart activities.
• Establish maintenance standards, procedures, and governance to support long-term operational performance.
• Provide regular reporting to site leadership on maintenance readiness, risks, costs, and schedules.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support overall site restart objectives.

Skills

Maintenance management

Mining experience

Leadership

Budgeting

CMMS (SAP)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

CMMS (SAP)

Job description

First Majestic Silver Corp-Jerritt Canyon Gold seeks an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance readiness across mobile equipment, plant, and process infrastructure at the Nevada site. You will guide restart planning, asset refurbishments, and compliance efforts to ensure safe, reliable operations.

The ideal candidate brings 10–15+ years in mining maintenance, strong leadership, budgeting, and CMMS (SAP) proficiency, with a focus on asset integrity and safety.