Senior Maintenance Manager

About the role

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling, keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we deliver low-cost and large-scale energy storage and produce battery materials in the U.S., all from batteries we already have. We operate North America's largest battery recycling operation, a continuous, heavy industrial plant built around rotary kilns, shredders, mills, and conveyors. This plant is crucial for our business, and maintenance is central to its success.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance execution: Accountability for mechanical and electrical maintenance across the site, ensuring equipment availability.
• Planning and scheduling: A disciplined work management process, including schedules that hold, planned and kitted work, and managed backlog.
• Reliability: Strategy to prevent failures through PM optimization, condition monitoring, defect elimination, and root cause analysis.
• Spares and materials: Critical spares strategy and storeroom discipline to ensure parts are available when needed.
• People and safety: Department led by managers across maintenance execution, planning, reliability, and materials, developing leaders rather than just technical teams.
• Budget: Maintenance spend across labor, materials, and contractors.

Requirements

Engineering degree or trade background with equivalent senior experience, 10+ years in maintenance and reliability in heavy industry, such as mining, mineral processing, smelting, cement, or similar continuous-process environments. A track record of building proactive, planned maintenance organizations, and the specifics to back it up. Experience leading through managers and building leadership capability, not just technical teams. Strong grounding in work management, reliability engineering, and shutdown execution. Safety leadership in industrial environments. Calm, direct, and able to hold a standard while bringing a team along.

Qualifications

Full-time position. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Redwood collects personal information (PI) from applicants, including identifiers, personal records, professional or employment information, and inferences drawn from PI, for performing services and operations related to potential employment. For privacy-related questions, contact privacy@redwoodmaterials.com.