Maintenance Manager
TETRA Technologies, Inc. · Magnolia, AR · Yesterday
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Essential Duties
- Lead site maintenance operations with a focus on safety, environmental compliance, reliability, cost control, and continuous improvement, supporting overall plant performance and regulatory requirements.
- Own and oversee all maintenance activities, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of plant assets.
- Analyze critical equipment and processes to identify downtime and reliability risks; develop and execute maintenance strategies and contingency plans to mitigate risk.
- Establish and manage preventive maintenance (PM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) programs, including vibration analysis, lubrication, inspections, and condition-based monitoring.
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with external contractors and service providers to support routine maintenance, turnarounds, and annual inspection requirements.
- Drive technical analysis of existing production processes to identify equipment, process, and instrumentation/control improvement opportunities, including evaluation of alternative technologies or designs.
- Measure, track, and report maintenance KPIs such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), maintenance cost, and schedule compliance; use data to prioritize and implement improvements.
- Lead investigations into equipment failures, perform root-cause analysis, and implement design, process, or procedural changes to prevent recurrence.
- Develop and lead the site’s continuous improvement program, including KPI reporting, incident and near-miss investigations, root-cause analysis, skills training, and continuous improvement teams.
- Collaborate closely with operations, engineering, HSEQ, and supply chain teams to ensure maintenance strategies align with production goals and capital project execution.
- Support capital projects by providing maintenance input on equipment selection, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost considerations.
- Perform additional duties as required to support site safety, reliability, and business objectives.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering preferred
- Experience: 6-10+ years’ experience in a Manufacturing Environment
- Travel: 10%
- Other: Experience in drilling operations and downhole equipment
Other
- Submit to and satisfactorily complete pre-employment background, medical, alcohol, and drug screening
- Must possess a valid Driver’s License
- Work Environment: While performing the duties of any field-based position, an employee may be exposed to various outside weather conditions including but not limited to rain, humidity, snow, and/or heat during daytime hours and/or nighttime hours. The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud for extended periods of time.