Maintenance Manager - Power Plant
Verto USA
New Jersey, New Jersey
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$150,000–$185,000 Per Year
LOCATION
New Jersey, New Jersey
POSTED
30+ days ago
The successful Maintenance Manager will be site-based in Northern New Jersey, overseeing all plant maintenance activities under the direction of the Plant Manager. This role will lead a team of 10 - 12 maintenance technicians, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations while driving continuous improvement across maintenance systems and processes.
The Maintenance Manager will ideally have strong combined cycle power plant experience or come a solid fuel plant with a proven background in maintenance leadership, safety, planning, and regulatory compliance within an operating generation facility.
Package
- Up to $185,000
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
Role for Maintenance Manager
- Provide overall leadership and accountability for all site maintenance functions to ensure safe, reliable plant operation
- Promote and embed a strong safety-first culture by enforcing standards, ensuring correct PPE usage, and leading incident investigations and root cause assessments
- Supervise, coach, and performance-manage a team of 12 maintenance technicians
- Plan, schedule, and deliver both short-term and long-term maintenance programs, including outages and major works
- Develop and control the annual maintenance budget, monitoring spend and authorising costs in line with targets
- Manage and optimise CMMS processes, ensuring effective delivery of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities
- Oversee spare parts, materials, and warehouse inventory to support efficient maintenance execution
- Ensure full compliance with OSHA, environmental, labour, and all applicable regulatory requirements
- Maintain accurate, auditable maintenance records, reports, and documentation
- Deliver maintenance and continuous improvement projects as directed by the Plant Manager
- Act as the on-call escalation point, providing 24/7 support for non-routine maintenance and emergency events
Requirements for Maintenance Manager
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8–10 years of power plant maintenance experience (combined cycle or solid fuel)
- Minimum 5 years in a supervisory or management role
- Strong leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience managing maintenance budgets and planning outages
- Proficiency with CMMS systems.
- Based in or willing to commute or relocate to Northern New Jersey.
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