Manager, Maintenance & Reliability

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future. With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive powering a high-technology future. Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence and Integrity.  

This role establishes the maintenance program, work management system, CMMS and ERP platforms, spare parts strategy and reliability practices do not yet exist. The Senior Manager designs and deploys them ahead of startup, then leads the organization that runs them. 

The primary deliverables of the roles are a configured CMMS and ERP maintenance environment built on validated asset and materials master data; a documented work management process operating to measurable standards; a criticality-based preventive and predictive maintenance program; a stocked and governed central storeroom; an audit-ready Mechanical Integrity program; and a qualified maintenance organization built on schedule against line startup. 

Responsibilities 

Maintenance Program and Management System 

• Design and document the maintenance management system: work management process, roles and decision rights, performance standards and governance. 
• Establish the work identification-through-closeout workflow — notification, prioritization, planning, kitting, scheduling, execution and closeout — and the discipline behind each step. 
• Define maintenance strategy by asset class, grounded in criticality rather than habit. 
• Build the performance framework: PM and schedule compliance, wrench time, backlog health, emergency work ratio, MTBF/MTTR and maintenance cost per unit produced. 
• Own Mechanical Integrity for PSM-covered equipment with EHS and the PSM Manager — inspection and test plans, deficiency management and audit-ready evidence. 

CMMS and ERP Configuration and Deployment 

• CMMS configuration: Lead platform selection and functional configuration — work order types and priorities, approval workflow, planning and scheduling, permit linkage and mobile execution. 
• Asset hierarchy and master data: Design the asset register, functional location hierarchy, equipment numbering and tagging convention, and the governance model that keeps the data clean at scale. 
• PM library and failure taxonomy: Build job plans and task lists from OEM data and criticality analysis, with runtime- and condition-based triggers; establish failure and cause codes that make the data usable for reliability analysis. 
• ERP and MRO workflows: Configure stock item masters, storeroom locations, min/max levels, requisition-to-receipt flow, issue and return transactions, and work order cost capture with correct capital-versus-expense treatment.