Maintenance Manager

About This Role

The Maintenance Manager at Ferroglobe is responsible for leading all maintenance activities at the facility, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. This role oversees preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs with a strong emphasis on dust collection systems, critical process equipment, and regulatory compliance, while driving equipment reliability and developing a skilled maintenance team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities for plant equipment and infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of dust collection systems, including baghouses, ductwork, fans, and emissions control equipment critical to silicon metal production.
• Champion a strong safety-first culture, ensuring all maintenance activities comply with company safety standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance supervisors, technicians, and contractors.
• Manage the maintenance budget, including labor, parts, and capital projects.
• Utilize SAP (or similar CMMS) to plan, schedule, track, and analyze maintenance work.
• Oversee root cause analysis (RCA) for equipment failures and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with Operations, Engineering, EHS, and external vendors.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on cost reduction, reliability improvement, and efficiency.
• Establish and track KPIs such as equipment uptime, PM compliance, maintenance cost, and safety metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• 5–10+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment
• Strong technical knowledge of dust collection systems, mechanical equipment, electrical systems, and industrial maintenance practices
• Demonstrated experience leading preventative and corrective maintenance programs
• Proficiency with SAP or similar CMMS systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, or a related technical field
• 5–10+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience in silicon metal, metals, mining, or high-temperature process industries
• Experience with Electric Arc Furnaces
• Experience with electrical systems, especially high voltage applications
• Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) or TPM experience
• Knowledge of environmental compliance related to dust and emissions control
• Union or multi-skilled workforce leadership experience

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits