Maintenance Manager
Maintenance Manager - Hot Rolling Mill
Location: Shreveport, LA
Work Model: On-site
Compensation: Competitive base salary + benefits
About the Opportunity
Join a leading steel manufacturing organization as a Maintenance Manager supporting a Hot Rolling Mill operation. This leadership role is responsible for driving equipment reliability, maintenance excellence, outage planning, and the development of a high-performing maintenance organization in a complex industrial manufacturing environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead and manage all Hot Rolling Mill maintenance operations.
- Supervise salaried and hourly maintenance personnel, including supervisors, planners, and electrical/mechanical technicians.
- Drive a strong safety culture and enforce plant safety policies and procedures.
- Develop employee performance, training, and succession plans.
- Reduce downtime and maintenance costs through predictive and preventive maintenance programs.
- Lead outage, shutdown, and downtime planning across maintenance, operations, engineering, tooling, and infrastructure teams.
- Improve maintenance systems, processes, and reporting through CMMS utilization (SAP PM preferred).
- Manage maintenance budgets, scheduling, forecasting, and cost controls.
- Build and maintain relationships with contractors, service providers, and refurbishment partners.
- Lead equipment improvement, replacement, and reliability projects.
What You'll Bring
- High school diploma required; technical degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- 10+ years of maintenance leadership experience within heavy industrial manufacturing.
- Strong experience leading large maintenance organizations.
- Background in outage planning, equipment installations, and capital projects.
- Experience with maintenance management systems such as SAP PM.
- Knowledge of mechanical drive systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical systems, electronics, and PLC fundamentals.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
Why This Role
- High-impact leadership position within a major manufacturing operation.
- Opportunity to shape maintenance strategy and reliability performance.
- Manage a diverse team across mechanical and electrical disciplines.
- Lead major shutdowns, projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Visible role with significant influence on plant performance and uptime.
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