Role Summary

The Senior Manager - Maintenance position is responsible for providing leadership across several departments and disciplines. The role must focus on implementing standardized processes, driving the development of our RIOS process, and be a key interface between maintenance, engineering, and production.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance teams to reduce MTTR and increase MTBF.
• Implement and drive problem-solving techniques to understand root cause in failure and develop countermeasures from recurrence.
• Lead interface between leadership, maintenance, and engineering.
• Support JPH and OEE improvements, through continuous improvement and project work.
• Work with Reliability & Maintainability to develop improvement strategies.
• Work with EHS to not only ensure compliance is maintained, but to focus on leading metrics.
• Seek predictive and preventative methodology for reduced downtime - and scrub PM plans for optimization of maintenance tasks.
• Interface with manufacturing engineering to ensure all documents (BOM, prints, electrical schematics) are available and linked to maintenance system.
• This position may require working off-shifts, or adjusted hours.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, all internal candidates must submit an updated resume highlighting their relevant skills, experiences, and accomplishments. Applications submitted without an updated resume will not be considered. Please ensure that your resume accurately reflects your qualifications for this role.

• 10+ years of maintenance experience, preferably in automotive or automotive component maintenance.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership position.
• Solid understanding of management principles such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching and performance management required.
• Expert-level experience in the development and implementation of CMMS systems, with an emphasis on new model launch experience.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Familiarity with concepts of reliability and maintainability, and able to develop and lead plant-wide efforts to improve equipment health.
• Demonstrated ability to be an effective leader across multiple levels of an organization.
• Experience building and managing a technical team through effective 1:1s, thoughtful feedback, career growth planning, and performance reviews.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to alternate between standing and walking 8-12 hours per day
• Ability to climb steps to access platforms and workstations
• Manual dexterity to grasp and manipulate materials
• Able to position one's body to access and assemble materials (bending squatting/stooping/kneeling/reaching below waist and above shoulder).
• Ability to do work on the production floor with exposure to dust, fumes, orders, loud noise and varying temperatures
• Ability to climb up/down ladders and stairs, negotiate uneven or moving surfaces, and work at varying heights

• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $161,000 - $201,200 for Illinois based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.

You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than June 12, 2026.