Director, Maintenance Communities

Role Summary:

The Director of Maintenance Communities is the strategic lead for the company’s global asset reliability and maintenance governance. This role orchestrates a multi-disciplinary group of SMEs (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, CNC, NDT, etc.) to ensure "Best-in-Class" maintainability and strategy to improve the standard and equipment performance. The Director is responsible for transforming fragmented plant maintenance into a unified, high-performance community that minimizes technical risk, standardize the maintenance polices and optimizes the assets performance by driving the continues improvement and innovation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the establishment of "Technical Law" for maintenance across all disciplines, ensuring that standards for spare parts, preventive plans, and equipment care are uniform globally.
• Direct the development and enforcement of global policies for Spare Parts Standardization, enabling asset sharing and inventory optimization between mills.
• In collaboration with the COEO, define the company-wide Asset Reliability Roadmap, integrating advanced technologies and predictive maintenance.
• Lead and mentor a diverse team of SMEs (Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, NDT, etc.), fostering a culture of cross-functional troubleshooting and knowledge sharing.
• Govern the Expert Community Ecosystem, ensuring that specific technical knowledge (e.g., Hydraulic or CNC expertise) is institutionalized and accessible to all operational units.
• Oversee the Global Skill Matrix and certification process for maintenance engineers and supervisors, ensuring a robust pipeline of technical talent
• Standardize the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) framework for high-impact equipment failures, ensuring that findings from one plant prevent occurrences in others.
• Direct quarterly audits of maintenance practices to ensure strict adherence to safety, quality, and technical procedures across all mills.
• Partner with the Director of Process Communities to ensure that machine capability aligns perfectly with process requirements.
• Act as the primary Maintenance stakeholder for Project Engineering during the design and procurement of new production lines.
• Ensure that Maintainability and Reliability (RAMS) are "baked into" the procurement process and that SAT/FAT (Site/Factory Acceptance Tests) are executed to the highest technical standards.
• Validate the maintenance strategies for new equipment, including spare parts lists and technical training before handover to operations.
• Drive the research and procurement of Advanced Technologies (Industry 4.0, IoT, predictive analytics) to enhance equipment output and reliability.
• Coordinate technological benchmarking with OEMs and competitors to identify and close gaps in machine performance and technical capability.

Qualification and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electric, Electronic, Mechanic and preferred MBA or master’s degree.

Experience:

• Minimum 15 years in industrial maintenance management, with at least 7 years in a senior leadership role within heavy industry (e.g. steel pipe company or large-scale steel manufacturing. Extensive experience with Asset Management System (SAP/CMMS) and Industry 4.0 maintenance technologies. Proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary teams and implementing Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Skills:

• Technical reference knowledge in his expertise area
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Risk assessment
• Effectiveness communication
• Conceptual Lean methodology know how
• Fundamental CI tools and methodology know how
• MS Office and ERP