Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager leads all maintenance, reliability, and contractor support activities for TAMKO’s Tuscaloosa manufacturing facility, which operates two laminated shingle production lines and associated bulk solids, asphalt, and converting systems. This role is accountable for ensuring high equipment uptime, safe work execution, strong partnership with Operations, and the ongoing development of a skilled and highly engaged maintenance team.

The Maintenance Manager is a key member of the plant leadership team, working collaboratively with Production, Engineering, Support Services, and EHS to drive overall plant performance. This leader builds a culture grounded in vulnerability-based trust, healthy debate, shared commitment, accountability, and results. The Maintenance Manager owns plant asset health and maintenance strategy, with the authority and accountability to define, enforce, and continuously improve maintenance standards that balance safety, reliability, and throughput.

Essential job functions
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Additional duties may be assigned.

Leadership & Team Development

• Build and sustain a strong maintenance culture based on professionalism, trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability, and focus on results.
• Lead and develop a team of ~25 maintenance employees, including four direct reports (2 mechanical supervisors, 1 controls supervisor, 1 reliability engineer).
• Coach supervisors and technicians; guide technical development, training, and performance management.
• Participate in hiring and on-boarding of technicians, supervisors, and planners.
• Maintain a strong daily presence on the plant floor to understand equipment conditions, support supervisors, and model safety and reliability expectations.
• Partner closely with Operations and Engineering leadership to ensure plant-wide alignment and teamwork.
• Drive measurable improvements in equipment availability, unplanned downtime, maintenance cost effectiveness, and overall equipment reliability.

Maintenance Execution

• Ensure safe, effective, and timely execution of work in a 24/7 production environment.
• Oversee mechanical, electrical, controls, and reliability work across conveyors, elevators, mills, asphalt systems, fired heaters, web-handling equipment, palletizers, and other production systems.
• Support troubleshooting during breakdowns and engage as needed to resolve issues quickly and safely.
• Ensure notifications, work orders, planning, and execution through SAP meet TAMKO standards.
• Promote proactive maintenance by emphasizing PM compliance, reducing break-in work, and optimizing labor utilization.
• Remain informed of weekly maintenance schedules developed by supervisors; ensure alignment with production priorities.

Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Partner closely with the Reliability Engineer to drive PM optimization, predictive technologies, and reliability improvements.
• Provide leadership for RCPEs when triggered by downtime, waste, safety, environmental, or quality events; ensure follow-up actions are completed and present findings to plant leadership.
• Monitor key reliability metrics (e.g., PM compliance, break-in work) and drive actions to improve equipment performance.
• Support deployment and sustainment of reliability tools and programs across the plant.
• Ensure strong maintenance planning and scheduling discipline, with clear weekly schedules, backlog management, and labor efficiency expectations.
• Develop and maintain a long‑term asset lifecycle and capital replacement strategy in partnership with Engineering and Plant Leadership.

Project Management

• Lead planning and oversight for down‑day and shutdown activities, typically coordinating up to 25 contractors.
• Manage maintenance capital projects and major replacements, delegate project execution to supervisors, lead technicians, or the reliability engineer.
• Ensure effective coordination with Operations, Engineering, and Support Services during project and down‑day…