Maintenance Manager (Lumberton)

Key Responsibilities

• Create a high-performance culture focused on safety, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide daily leadership, coaching, and performance management for all maintenance personnel.
• Partner with Operations to drive proactive communication, coordinated downtime, and shared production goals.
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with OSHA, NFPA-70E, LOTO, fall protection, and IFG safety systems.
• Build the mill’s reliability and preventive/predictive maintenance program.
• Continue to Develop PMs, PdM routes (vibration, thermography, ultrasound), lubrication standards, and equipment criticality analysis.
• Lead RCA, failure-mode analysis, and downtime investigations.
• Implement asset care standards and maintenance best practices across the mill.
• Drive a data-driven maintenance culture.
• Help optimize IFG CMMS system.
• Develop and optimize work order workflows, KPIs, coding standards, and asset hierarchy.
• Establish the planning and scheduling process for all maintenance work (PM, PdM, improvements).
• Ensure the planner/scheduler has accurate priorities, job plans, and material requirements.
• Build the weekly maintenance schedule and lead the weekly “Maintenance-Operations Planning Meeting.”
• Manage downtime planning for both scheduled and unscheduled outages.
• Lead troubleshooting to meet production and reliability targets.
• Develop and manage the annual maintenance budget, including labor, contractors, materials, and spare parts.
• Control maintenance costs while minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment life.
• Continuously improve maintenance processes and team capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of industrial maintenance leadership experience (sawmill preferred).
• Demonstrated success in building or improving maintenance systems and reliability programs.
• Experienced with precision maintenance on industrial equipment.
• Experience with modern, technology-enabled sawmill equipment strongly preferred.
• Strong mechanical and hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, sawline equipment skills.
• Competent electrical & automation knowledge of PLCs, VFDs, scanner requirements and functions.
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems, predictive maintenance tools, and asset management strategies.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and OEM documentation.
• Strong communicator who can work closely with superintendents, supervisors, and operators.
• Ability to lead change, set clear expectations, and hold teams accountable.
• Strategic thinker who also excels in hands-on troubleshooting during startup and breakdowns.
• Highly organized, disciplined, and calm under pressure.
• Performance Metrics: Safe execution of all maintenance work (zero serious incidents); Reliability performance of major assets; PM completion rate, scheduled vs. unscheduled downtime; Cost performance against maintenance budget; Team capability development and retention.