Director, Maintenance Communities

Role Overview

The Director of Maintenance Communities leads the global strategy for asset reliability and maintenance governance, overseeing cross-disciplinary experts to ensure top-tier maintainability and enhanced equipment performance. This role focuses on unifying fragmented plant maintenance approaches into a high-efficiency community, minimizing technical risk, standardizing policies, and fostering continuous improvement and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce universal technical standards across all maintenance disciplines, including spare parts management and preventive maintenance plans.
• Develop and implement global policies for spare parts standardization to optimize inventory and facilitate asset sharing among mills.
• Collaborate with the Chief Operations Executive Officer to create a comprehensive Asset Reliability Roadmap incorporating advanced technologies such as predictive maintenance.
• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a diverse team of subject matter experts spanning Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, CNC, NDT, and others, promoting cross-functional troubleshooting and knowledge exchange.
• Manage the Expert Community Ecosystem to institutionalize and disseminate specialized technical knowledge across operational units.
• Oversee the Global Skill Matrix and certification processes for maintenance engineers and supervisors, ensuring continuous technical talent development.
• Standardize Root Cause Analysis protocols for critical equipment failures to prevent recurrence across plants.
• Conduct quarterly audits ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and technical standards across all maintenance operations worldwide.
• Partner with Process Communities leadership to align machine capabilities with process demands.
• Serve as the principal maintenance liaison during project engineering phases, influencing design and procurement decisions for new production lines.
• Integrate maintainability and reliability (RAMS) considerations into procurement procedures and supervise execution of Site and Factory Acceptance Tests adhering to stringent standards.
• Evaluate maintenance strategies for new equipment, verifying spare parts inventory and technical training readiness prior to operational handover.
• Drive acquisition and implementation of advanced Industry 4.0 technologies including IoT and predictive analytics to boost equipment output and reliability.
• Coordinate technology benchmarking efforts with original equipment manufacturers and competitors to identify performance gaps and close technical shortcomings.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Mechanical Engineering; MBA or master's degree preferred.
• At least 15 years' experience in industrial maintenance management with a minimum of 7 years in senior leadership roles in heavy industries such as steel pipe manufacturing or large-scale steel production.
• Extensive knowledge of Asset Management Systems including SAP and CMMS, alongside Industry 4.0 maintenance technologies.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-disciplinary teams and implementing Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) methodologies.

Skills

• In-depth technical expertise in relevant maintenance disciplines.
• Project management proficiency.
• Strong leadership and team development capabilities.
• Risk assessment and mitigation skills.
• Effective communication abilities.
• Familiarity with Lean methodologies and continuous improvement tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.