Maintenance Manager
UmicoreAbout the role
About Umicore
Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.
About Fuel Cell and Stationary Catalysts
High-performance stationary catalysts. Next generation fuel-cell technologies. With clean air and green mobility playing a vital part in protecting the world of tomorrow, our design and production of these sustainable solutions has never been more crucial. Developing innovative products for a broad range of industries, we’re creating a better future by helping customers reach zero emission mobility and power supply. To keep improving the way the world moves we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.
Job Purpose
The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, reliability, and utilities functions within a catalyst manufacturing facility. This role ensures safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of production assets through preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, continuous improvement initiatives, and strong leadership of maintenance personnel and contractors.
The Maintenance Manager partners closely with Operations, Engineering, EHS, and Quality teams to maximize equipment uptime, improve OEE, reduce maintenance costs, and support plant production goals while maintaining compliance with environmental and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and develop maintenance supervisors, planners, technicians, and contractors.
- Promote a strong safety-first culture and ensure compliance with all plant safety procedures and regulations.
- Establish performance expectations, accountability, and employee development plans.
- Drive workforce engagement, technical training, and continuous improvement culture.
Maintenance & Reliability
- Develop and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
- Implement reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) strategies to improve asset performance.
- Monitor and improve equipment uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and overall maintenance KPIs.
- Manage troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) for recurring equipment failures.
- Ensure effective planning and scheduling processes through CMMS utilization.
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Operations Support
- Partner with production leadership to support throughput, quality, and operational targets.
- Coordinate maintenance activities to minimize production downtime.
- Support plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and capital project execution.
- Provide technical guidance for process equipment and utility systems.
Technical Oversight
- Maintain and support critical plant systems including:
- Reactors and chemical processing equipment
- Mixers, dryers, mills, and powder handling systems
- Pumps, piping systems, valves, and instrumentation
- Dust collection and ventilation systems
- PLCs, automation systems, and motor controls
- Boilers, chillers, compressed air, and utility systems
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Continuous Improvement
- Lead Lean Manufacturing and TPM initiatives within maintenance operations.
- Identify and implement cost reduction and efficiency improvement projects.
- Improve spare parts inventory management and critical parts strategies.
- Utilize data analytics and maintenance metrics to drive decisions.
Safety, Environmental & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, NFPA, and company safety standards.
- Support Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements where applicable.
- Lead maintenance safety audits, LOTO compliance, and contractor safety programs.
- Participate in incident investigations and corrective act
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