Job Description
Job Overview:
Join America's premier steel bridge fabricator! Veritas Steel's employees have been building America's bridges with American-made steel for more than 100 years. We specialize in complex bridges of all shapes and sizes, whether arches, cable-stayed, suspension, bascule, or plate girders, we build it. Veritas is committed to providing employees with opportunities for training and professional development. If being a part of Building America's Infrastructure is something that interests you, then apply now! Relocation Assistance is available.
Position Summary
Veritas Steel is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations, improve equipment reliability, and assist with strategic execution of capital projects within a heavy manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for developing a high-performing maintenance team, maximizing equipment uptime, managing maintenance and MRO budgets, and leading facility and equipment improvement initiatives that support the plant's long-term growth and operational objectives.
The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader who combines strong maintenance expertise with project engineering capabilities to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and overall plant performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and directs the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual objectives of the maintenance department.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and development for maintenance technicians.
- Partners with Operations and Maintenance Planning to prioritize and execute maintenance activities.
- Develops and implements preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
- Drives root cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
- Develops long-term reliability improvement plans aligned with plant objectives.
- Works with plant leadership to develop and execute long-term CAPEX plans and strategic initiatives.
- Assists Plant Engineering to Manage capital project scope, schedules, budgets, contractors, and execution.
- Coordinates equipment installation, startup, commissioning, and performance validation activities.
- Leads startup efforts for major equipment and facility investments.
- Ensures projects are completed safely, on schedule, and within budget.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong technical troubleshooting, reliability, and project management skills.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractors, and capital projects.
- Proven ability to lead teams, develop employees, and drive continuous improvement.
- Engineering, Maintenance Management, or related technical degree preferred.
Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a strong maintenance leader with proven forward-thinking capabilities, excellent technical knowledge, and the project engineering expertise to drive reliability improvements and successfully execute strategic capital investments.
Safety is our priority! We have a very extensive training program to ensure the safety of all of our employees.
Veritas Steel is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
