Power Plant Maintenance Leader

AES; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AES Corporation seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead a large maintenance department across electrical and mechanical teams, optimizing budgets and outages while improving reliability in power generation assets. You will drive work management philosophy and coordinate with operations and engineering to meet performance goals.

The role requires a solid engineering degree and 5–10 years of leadership experience in industrial maintenance or plant operations, with strong communication and budgeting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial, or related discipline).
• Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in maintenance or operations leadership experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with SAP is preferred.
• Experience in power generation, plant operations, maintenance, or industrial operations is strongly preferred.
• Experience with work management, asset management, maintenance planning, budgeting, and performance management in an industrial environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, and decision‑making skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across operations, maintenance, engineering, and support teams.
• Strong organizational, planning, and problem‑solving skills, with a reliability-focused mindset and the ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, coaching, counseling, advising and teaching to others through day to day contact
• Performs the duties necessary to safely and reliably maintain power generation assets
• Directs the maintenance group in developing overall work management philosophy
• Project management including engineering review, project scope development, develop and review technical specifications, analyze controls solutions and evaluate project impact on the facility
• Project management including coordination of project activities across multi-discipline groups necessary in the maintenance, operation and installation of these systems
• Initiates projects as needed to improve station reliability
• Reviews station annual operating budget; recommends new additions, equipment or changes.
• Directs and or assists in Engineering evaluations, Factory Acceptance testing, spare parts review, recommendation and procurement

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Work management

Communication

Decision-making

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

AES Corporation seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead a large maintenance department across electrical and mechanical teams, optimizing budgets and outages while improving reliability in power generation assets. You will drive work management philosophy and coordinate with operations and engineering to meet performance goals.

The role requires a solid engineering degree and 5–10 years of leadership experience in industrial maintenance or plant operations, with strong communication and budgeting