We are searching for a Senior Manager Maintenance Operations to join our team located in Hot Springs, AR. 

The Senior Manager Maintenance Operations serves as the senior technical and operational leader responsible for the full reliability strategy, regulatory compliance, and asset lifecycle management of a complex aluminum manufacturing operation that includes a mill, furnaces, cast house operations, precision roll grind systems, utilities, and all critical plant infrastructure.

This role ensures zero harm safety performance, world class product quality, and maximum asset availability in a high hazard, continuous process environment. The Senior Manager Maintenance Operations is accountable for designing and deploying enterprise level programs that safeguard and extend multimillion dollar assets, optimize equipment utilization, and drive systemic performance improvements across operations, engineering, and maintenance functions.The Senior Manager Maintenance Operations also provides strategic leadership, technical governance, and cross functional influence to ensure robust process capability, data driven decision making, and operational alignment with Reynolds’ manufacturing, financial, quality, and regulatory standards. This role shapes long term capital planning, strengthens reliability culture, and drives total lifecycle cost reductions through integration of advanced maintenance technologies and methodologies (e.g., CBM, RCM, TPM, predictive analytics).They lead the Maintenance organization—fully accountable for people, budget, technical direction, and execution—to deliver high-performance support to all production value streams.

You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Leadership & Organizational Stewardship

• Provide visionary leadership to a diverse technical workforce, including 5+ front-line supervisors and 50 skilled union craft employees (machinists, electricians, pipefitters, oilers), ensuring strong succession pipelines, skill development, and a high-accountability culture.
• Build a unified reliability organization through strategic workforce planning, capability mapping, and the deployment of standardized work systems.

Safety & Regulatory Excellence

• Serve as the primary safety integrator for all maintenance activities in a high-risk, heavy-industrial environment.
• Ensure full compliance with OSHA, EPA, environmental permit requirements, hazardous energy control, and all food-contact packaging regulations including SQF and GMP.
• Lead comprehensive risk assessments and implement engineering/administrative controls to eliminate hazards and elevate risk-prevention maturity.

Financial & Asset Stewardship

• Manage a multi-million-dollar maintenance and capital budget, optimizing cost performance through labor strategy, overtime governance, contractor management, inventory optimization, and total-cost-of-ownership methodologies.
• Shape long-range capital plans, asset replacement strategies, and financial justifications in partnership with Operations, Finance, and Engineering.

Reliability Engineering, Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

• Architect and deploy a plant-wide Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Condition-Based Monitoring (CBM) strategy utilizing advanced technologies (vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonic, oil analysis, PLC analytics).
• Own the development of predictive maintenance roadmaps and KPI structures to reduce unplanned downtime, increase asset life, and improve OEE.
• Integrate TPM methodologies, Work Execution Management principles, and digital maintenance systems to deliver continuous improvement in maintenance workflow performance.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Forge deep partnerships across Safety, HR, Finance, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain to align priorities, resolve systemic issues, and drive operational excellence.
• Maintain proactive engagement with Union leadership to ensure constructive labor relations, dispute resolution, and adherence to contractual guidelines.

Operational Excellence & High-Performance Culture

• Develop and deploy advanced KPI systems to monitor asset health, workforce productivity, schedule compliance, downtime drivers, and reliability performance.
• Serve as a key driver of plant transformation initiatives, leading structured problem-solving, Lean/TPM events, and high-impact improvement projects.
• Establish consistent maintenance governance systems, standard operating procedures, and best-practice frameworks to elevate technical rigor across all shifts.

You Will Love It Here If… 

• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You put safety first, always
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, or relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.

Experience

• 8+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in heavy industrial maintenance within aluminum, steel, paper, chemical, or equivalent high-hazard continuous-process industries. 
• 5+ years leading large, diverse teams including unionized skilled trades, with demonstrated success in building capability, improving performance, and driving transformation.
• Proven expertise in reliability engineering, predictive technologies, and capital asset planning  
• Expert ability to diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and automation issues and lead cross-functional problem solving.
• Strong labor relations leadership and experience operating in unionized environments.
• High proficiency in SAP PM, CMMS systems, and data-driven maintenance planning tools.
• Exceptional communication and executive-level influence skills.
• Demonstrated mastery of Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong project management competency with proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams through large-scale technical upgrades, shutdowns, and capital deployments.
• High ownership mindset with the ability to perform under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results against aggressive operational targets.

Preferred

• Master's in Business Administration or Engineering preferred.

If you answer yes to the following…we want to meet you!

• Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
• Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on? 
• Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
• Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first? 
• Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection?
• Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo? 

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