Position: Maintenance Manager - Recycling Location: Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia Industry: Aluminum Recycling & Heavy Industrial Manufacturing
About the Role A leading industrial organization is seeking a Maintenance Manager - Recycling to lead the maintenance function for a major aluminum recycling facility. This position will oversee maintenance strategy, reliability improvement, asset management, maintenance planning, shutdown execution, and team development across recycling operations including scrap processing, delacquering, melting, casting, homogenizing, sawing, and associated utilities. The successful candidate will play a critical role during plant readiness, commissioning, and startup phases, establishing maintenance systems, spare parts strategies, reliability programs, and operational maintenance capabilities before full production begins.
Key Responsibilities Lead all maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective plant operation. Develop maintenance strategies, preventive maintenance programs, critical equipment plans, and reliability initiatives. Establish CMMS systems, maintenance standards, and spare parts management processes. Manage maintenance budgets, resources, KPIs, and performance targets. Foster strong collaboration between maintenance, operations, engineering, and other stakeholders. Lead safety, environmental, and compliance initiatives within maintenance operations. Drive continuous improvement and asset reliability programs through data-driven decision making. Build, coach, and develop maintenance teams to achieve operational excellence. Manage contractor performance and support major shutdown and turnaround activities.
Requirements Engineering degree or equivalent technical qualification. 10+ years of maintenance leadership experience in aluminum, casthouse, metals, mining, smelting, or heavy industrial environments. Strong understanding of maintenance and reliability systems, operational excellence, and asset management principles. Demonstrated experience leading large maintenance teams and driving organizational change. Experience supporting greenfield projects, plant commissioning, or maintenance readiness activities is highly advantageous.
Preferred Competencies Reliability-centered maintenance Strategic leadership Cost management and budgeting Safety and environmental leadership Change management Team development and coaching Strong stakeholder engagement skills