Caster Maintenance Manager

Summary:  The CASTER Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring maximum equipment availability, reliability, and asset performance in a cost-effective manner. This role provides strategic and hands-on leadership to the CASTER maintenance department through effective planning, coordination, budgeting, and continuous improvement. The position partners closely with operations, engineering, and reliability teams to minimize unplanned downtime, optimize maintenance practices, and support safe, stable, and efficient production.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead and manage all CASTER maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability, availability, and lifecycle performance while controlling costs.
• Establish and reinforce a strong safety culture by ensuring full compliance with plant safety standards, quality systems, housekeeping expectations, and regulatory requirements through visible leadership, training, and accountability.
• Lead maintenance initiatives focused on reducing unplanned downtime, improving equipment reliability, and increasing performance of operating equipment.
• Develop and improve maintenance practices and procedures to ensure optimal utilization of maintenance resources and materials while providing maximum equipment availability and reliability.
• Direct the development and ongoing maintenance of a preventative maintenance program, inclusive of maintaining appropriate inventory levels of critical spare parts and materials to support maintenance execution and minimize risk to production.
• Ensure timely, effective response to equipment breakdowns and coordinate expedited repairs to minimize production impact and restore operations safely.
• Plan, coordinate, manage, and execute annual outage activities with a focus on reliability improvement, schedule adherence, and cost control.
• Develop, manage, and execute annual maintenance budgets, including labor, materials, contractors, capital work, and critical spare parts inventory.
• Initiate, plan, and coordinate capital project work on an annual basis to maintain and improve capital assets and operational stability.
• Leverage CMMS systems (e.g., Maximo) to drive work management discipline, data-driven decision making, and maintenance performance improvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance personnel through training, performance management, and succession planning, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Interview and select skilled trades, engineering, and supervisory personnel as needed to support departmental and organizational goals.
• Effectively manage employee relations and promote a positive, professional work environment aligned with company values and business objectives

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Metallurgy, or a related technical field, or a relevant trade certification with equivalent experience.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of steel industry experience in a maintenance engineering or supervisory leadership role.
• Recognized safety leader with a strong commitment to workplace safety, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
• Strong working knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance systems and reliability-focused maintenance practices.
• Proficiency with CMMS platforms (e.g., Maximo) and the ability to leverage maintenance data to drive performance.
• Experience planning and executing capital projects, major repairs, and outage activities in a heavy industrial environment.
• Project planning and execution skills, including capital work, outages, and resource coordination.
• Solid capital budgeting, cost control, and financial acumen, including experience managing maintenance and capital budgets.
• Demonstrated success in problem-solving, with the ability to influence, motivate, and lead teams toward operational excellence.
• Effective communication skills across all organizational levels and with external partners and contractors.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a mini-mill environment producing flat-rolled steel.
• Strong risk management and resource optimization capabilities.
• Exposure to digital and advanced maintenance technologies, including prescriptive and predictive analytics.

Quantitative Scope:

• Annual budget responsibility ranging from $15M to $40M, depending on assigned area.
• Direct leadership of 3–8 salaried team members; indirect leadership of 15–60 hourly employees.

Work authorization:

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. No sponsorship is available for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement              

North Star BlueScope Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

North Star BlueScope Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.