Senior Maintenance Manager - Battery Recycling Operations

Redwood Materials, Inc.; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is building the world’s leading, large-scale battery recycling operation in the U.S. as it expands maintenance leadership to a new world-class function.

The Senior Maintenance Manager will own maintenance, planning, reliability, spares, and safety across the site with a mandate to drive proactive, predictable performance. This full-time role demands a track record in heavy industry, managing through managers, and delivering measurable improvements in uptime and asset care.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or trade background with equivalent senior experience.
• 10+ years in maintenance and reliability in heavy industry.
• Proven track record building proactive, planned maintenance organizations.
• Experience leading through managers and building leadership capability.
• Strong grounding in work management, reliability engineering, and shutdown execution.
• Safety leadership in industrial environments.
• Calm, direct, and able to hold a standard while bringing a team along.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance execution. Accountability for mechanical and electrical maintenance across the site, and for the equipment availability that flows from it.
• Planning and scheduling. A disciplined work management process: schedules that hold, work that’s planned and kitted before it starts, a backlog that’s managed.
• Reliability. The strategy that keeps failures from happening: PM optimization, condition monitoring, defect elimination, and root cause analysis on what matters.
• Spares and materials. Critical spares strategy and storeroom discipline so parts are on the shelf when the schedule needs them.
• People and safety. A department led through managers, spanning maintenance execution, planning, reliability, and materials. You’ll develop leaders, not just run crews, with safety leadership befitting a metallurgical processing environment.
• Budget. Maintenance spend across labor, materials, and contractors.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Reliability engineering

Work management

Shutdown execution

Safety leadership

People leadership

Planning and scheduling

Education

Engineering degree

Trade background

Job description

Redwood Materials is building the world’s leading, large-scale battery recycling operation in the U.S. as it expands maintenance leadership to a new world-class function.

The Senior Maintenance Manager will own maintenance, planning, reliability, spares, and safety across the site with a mandate to drive proactive, predictable performance. This full-time role demands a track record in heavy industry, managing through managers, and delivering measurable improvements in uptime and asset care.