Reliability & Maintenance Leader – Chemical Plant

Ucore Rare Metals Inc.; Alexandria (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. in Louisiana seeks an Engineering Maintenance Manager to oversee preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance, ensuring safe, compliant plant operations and uptime.

You will lead maintenance and reliability staff, monitor processes, troubleshoot equipment, and support commissioning of new equipment, while aligning with corporate goals. Based in Alexandria with travel to Kingston, Ontario, you will manage budgets, spares, and capital projects, enforce PSM, OSHA, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 5–10 years of industrial plant maintenance experience, with 2–5 years in a supervisory or management role in chemical/oil&gas/heavy processing.
• Proficiency with CMMS/SAP, RCA, and predictive maintenance technologies; familiarity with Allen Bradley PLC controls.
• Proven track record of leadership in an industrial setting.
• Experience with solvent extraction metallurgy is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance of specialized RapidSX extraction units, piping, pumps, recovery systems, and support equipment to maintain >95% uptime; lead root cause analysis of downtime.
• Enforce Process Safety Management (PSM), OSHA, and EPA regulations due to hazardous solvents.
• Manage and schedule multi-shift Maintenance Technicians and the Reliability Engineer/Maintenance Planner.
• Manage annual repair budgets, capital projects, and critical spare parts inventory.

Skills

Leadership

Root Cause Analysis

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

CMMS/SAP

Root Cause Analysis tools

Allen-Bradley PLCs

Predictive maintenance

Job description

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. in Louisiana seeks an Engineering Maintenance Manager to oversee preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance, ensuring safe, compliant plant operations and uptime.

You will lead maintenance and reliability staff, monitor processes, troubleshoot equipment, and support commissioning of new equipment, while aligning with corporate goals. Based in Alexandria with travel to Kingston, Ontario, you will manage budgets, spares, and capital projects, enforce PSM, OSHA, and