Covanta

Maintenance Manager

Covanta$118K — $169K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in thermomechanical treatment, power generation, or chemical processing maintenance.
  • Minimum five years in a maintenance supervisory role.
  • Preferred engineering degree.
  • Proven track record of identifying and implementing improvement opportunities.
  • Strong knowledge of maintenance budgeting and cost management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a safety-first culture in maintenance operations.
  • Collaborate with EHS to enhance site safety performance.
  • Enhance maintenance practices to optimize productivity and reduce costs.
  • Oversee preventive maintenance and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Develop methods to improve operational efficiency and resource utilization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Industry-leading 401(k) plan with up to 7% company match.
  • Company-paid life and AD&D insurance.
  • Paid parental leave and educational assistance.
  • Access to mental health and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
About the role

Reworld is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance, reliability, outage planning, and work management at a Thermomechanical Treatment Facility (TTF). This on-site leadership role reports to the Facility Manager and leads Mechanical and Electrical & Instrumentation teams, including supervisors and planners. The Maintenance Manager sets daily, annual, and long-term asset-reliability priorities; strengthens safety, preventive and predictive maintenance, mechanical integrity, and work-management practices; and delivers maintenance plans, outages, and improvement work across the site.

At Reworld, you will lead work with direct operational and environmental impact by helping convert waste into renewable electricity and supporting a safer, smarter circular economy. This role offers the opportunity to develop skilled teams, improve plant reliability, and shape maintenance strategy at a company committed to sustainable waste and energy solutions.

The successful candidate brings senior maintenance leadership in thermomechanical treatment, power generation, chemical processing, or continuous-process industrial plants. They will lead reliability, maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS work management, outage execution, budgeting, spare-parts management, and continuous improvement. Success requires strong partnership with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Quality, and corporate Maintenance & Reliability teams, along with the ability to coach teams, resolve equipment issues, and improve plant performance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
  • Lead a safety-first, environmental-stewardship culture across maintenance work.
  • Partner with EHS to target zero incidents and improve site performance.
  • Improve maintenance practices to reduce risk, increase productivity, and lower cost.
  • Lead maintenance, reliability, preventive maintenance, work management, and continuous-improvement programs.
  • Develop methods and procedures that improve operations and labor and material utilization.
  • Select, assign, coach, develop, and evaluate maintenance-team members.
  • Manage advanced Mechanical and Electrical & Instrumentation maintenance shops.
  • Forecast attrition and lead workforce planning and hiring.
  • Develop and maintain the five-year Long-Term Maintenance Plan.
  • Maintain maintenance metrics that prioritize action and drive improvement.
  • Develop supervisors, planners, craft personnel, and other leaders through coaching and training.
  • Develop annual and monthly maintenance budgets and deliver against them.
  • Identify and implement short- and long-term cost-management opportunities.
  • Lead the site Work Management Program, including planning, scheduling, backlog management, prioritization, and execution.
  • Support the CMMS and associated maintenance tools.
  • Lead outage-planning processes and deliver outage scopes, schedules, and budgets.
  • Identify gaps between reliability goals and plant performance.
  • Resolve repetitive failures through root cause analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance, and reliability practices.
  • Advance proactive work management and connect maintenance activity to business cost performance.
  • Inspect equipment for operational conformance.
  • Partner with management, engineering, operations, and quality-control teams to resolve maintenance problems and improve equipment performance.


Qualifications & Experience
  • Thermomechanical treatment facility maintenance experience, or a strong background in power generation, industrial, or chemical-plant maintenance.
  • At least five years of maintenance-supervision experience.
  • Engineering degree preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify improvement opportunities and implement change.
  • Knowledge of maintenance budgeting, maintenance methodologies, and cost management.
  • Experience managing spare-parts inventory to maintain optimal stock levels and reduce downtime.
  • Proficiency with ALM, PeopleSoft, or comparable CMMS tools, along with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Strong knowledge of electrical and instrumentation systems, the National Electrical Code, and NFPA arc-flash safety practices.
  • Proficiency in work-management processes, including planning, scheduling, and preventive maintenance.
  • Experience planning and leading major maintenance outages.
  • Thorough understanding of mechanical-integrity and quality-assurance practices and systems.
  • Experience with the design, repair, maintenance, reliability, failure modes, or inspection of chemical-process equipment.
  • Familiarity with Root Cause Failure Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Lean, 5S, and other reliability-improvement tools.
  • Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.


Physical Requirements & Work Environment
  • Routinely walk, stand, sit, reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and use hands throughout the workday.
  • Lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
  • Work at heights, climb ladders, use fall protection, and enter confined spaces.
  • Qualify for and wear a full-face respirator.
  • Work throughout active plant areas with rotating equipment, moving mechanical parts, electrical hazards, fumes, airborne particles, chemicals, vibration, noise, dust, heat, cold, wet conditions, and varying weather.
  • Perform manual tasks including pushing, pulling, sweeping, and shoveling


All Reworld positions require a candidate's ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role while upholding Reworld's Values, including (but not limited to) contributing to a safe and inclusive workplace, delivering results through trust, and building breakthrough capabilities.

Please note that Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Pay Transparency

Reworld is committed to paying its staff equitably, and we strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits packages. The range below reflects Reworld's reasonable estimate of base pay for this role based on primary posting location. It is expected that most qualified candidates in this location will fall within the posting range. The final salary offered for this role will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to: experience, education, geographic location, skills and competencies, travel requirements and/or union contracts (if applicable). Pay ranges are reviewed from time to time and may be modified in the future.

The pay range for the primary location of this position is: $118,700.00 - $169,800.00 USD per annum

Reworld™ provides an industry-leading benefits package that supports the whole person-and their families-through a balanced approach to mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. Regular full-time employees based in the USA have access to comprehensive medical, prescription drugs, dental, and vision coverage, FSA, HSA, short- and long-term disability benefits. Our 401(k) plan is industry-leading, with an up to 7% company match. Additional benefits include Company-paid life and AD&D insurance, EAP, paid parental leave, and educational assistance. For more information regarding these offerings, please visit the Reworld Careers Benefits Page. Reworld™ reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate any benefit plan, in whole or in part, at any time.

About Covanta

Covanta is a world leader in providing sustainable waste and energy solutions. The company's mission is to provide sustainable waste and energy solutions to ensure a cleaner, safer, and healthier future for communities worldwide. Covanta operates over 40 facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia, and has a workforce of over 4,000 employees. The company's waste-to-energy facilities convert non-recyclable waste into clean, renewable energy, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing safe and reliable waste disposal services. Covanta also provides comprehensive industrial material management services, including waste management, recycling, and environmental consulting services.
Learn more about Covanta
Size
26,000 employees
Market Cap
$2.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$28 million
Founded
1991
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$1.9 billion
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