Director, Maintenance Execution Lead (Asset Flow Monitoring)

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The Director of Maintenance Execution Lead (Asset Flow Monitoring) provides end-to-end leadership of shift-based maintenance execution, serving as the primary escalation and technical authority to ensure safe, timely, and high-quality maintenance that minimizes downtime, protects asset integrity, and supports continuous terminal operations. This role coordinates people, equipment, and work execution across planned and unplanned activities, ensures effective stakeholder communication and shift handover, and drives rapid fault diagnosis, repair, and knowledge capture across all maintenance disciplines during nonstandard operating hours (evening/nights/weekends).

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Set and govern the maintenance execution strategy that aligns operational responsiveness with long-term asset reliability and business objectives.
• Translate global asset and maintenance policies into effective local execution models.
• Serve as a senior advisor to the Head of Asset Management on asset risk, execution performance, and operational resilience.

Operational Command & Execution Excellence

• Provide 24/7 operational leadership coverage through effective shift structures, delegation, and handover governance.
• Act as the senior escalation point during live operations, directing breakdown triage, prioritization, and recovery actions based on business impact.
• Ensure optimal coordination of equipment assigned to Operations in partnership with Operations, Planning, and Reliability leaders.
• Oversee execution of planned maintenance, corrective work, and emergent breakdowns to ensure safe, timely, and high-quality delivery.

Asset Performance, Reliability & Breakdown Management

• Own breakdown response effectiveness, including MTTR, first-time fix rate, response speed, and recovery quality.
• Ensure learnings from breakdowns are captured through RCA, defect elimination, and reliability improvement programs.
• Drive continuous improvement in execution processes to reduce repeat failures and improve asset availability, using Lean tools and problem-solving methodology.

Technical Authority & Quality Assurance

• Serve as the senior on-call technical authority across mechanical, electrical, controls, PLC/Drives, hydraulic, and modernized systems.
• Approve repair strategies and ensure compliance with OEM standards, APMT policies, and engineering best practices.
• Standardize maintenance procedures to reduce variability and uplift execution quality across shifts.
• Champion technical capability development and knowledge transfer across teams.

Health, Safety, Security & Environment (HSSE)

• Set the tone for a zero-harm safety culture, exercising stop-work authority and enforcing safe systems of work.
• Ensure compliance with HSSE policies, LOTO, permits, risk assessments, and force/bypass governance.
• Lead or sponsor incident investigations, ensuring learning is embedded into systems and behaviors.
• Promote energy efficiency, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance within maintenance execution.
• Perform Gembas and close out associated Gemba actions. Responsible for overall team Gemba KPIs and actions.

Workforce Leadership & Resource Management

• Lead and develop Maintenance Execution Managers, supervisors, and technicians across union, contractor, and internal labor models.
• Ensure optimal workforce deployment, maximizing wrench time, productivity, and skill utilization.
• Establish expectations for performance management, coaching, succession planning, and shift discipline.
• Ensure seamless shift-to-shift handovers and continuity of accountability.
• Coach and develop direct reports; responsible for hiring, disciplinary actions, terminations, performance management of team.

Planning, Scheduling & CMMS Governance

• Govern the conversion of planned backlog into executable shift schedules aligned with operational constraints.
• Ensure end-to-end CMMS discipline, including work order accuracy, failure coding, labor capture, and cost tracking.
• Partner with inventory and Stakeholders to ensure material availability for planned and br