Job Ref: # 6324577
Date Posted: 7/21/2026
Location: Chester, PA
Salary (USD): $110,000 - $120,000
Description
The company is hiring a Maintenance Manager for its chemical manufacturing site in Chester, PA. This role is responsible for leading daily maintenance operations, supporting plant reliability, managing maintenance priorities, overseeing a team of maintenance personnel, coordinating contractors, and supporting capital projects in a high-tempo manufacturing environment.
The Maintenance Manager will work closely with plant leadership, operations, maintenance personnel, and contractors to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant performance. This person does not need to be the deepest technical subject matter expert on every system, but must have the maintenance knowledge, leadership presence, organization, and backbone to lead the team, ask the right questions, hold people accountable, and drive execution.
This is a strong opportunity for a proven maintenance leader from a chemical, process, industrial, or manufacturing environment who is comfortable balancing shop-floor leadership, planning, budgeting, troubleshooting support, contractor coordination, safety, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily maintenance activities for the Chester, PA site.
- Manage, coach, and support a team of 4 direct reports.
- Support maintenance scheduling, work planning, troubleshooting, prioritization, and execution.
- Manage small to medium capital projects in the $300K-$700K range.
- Support capital budgets, repair budgets, and maintenance spending.
- Coordinate and manage contractors working onsite.
- Provide diagnostic and troubleshooting support to maintenance and operations teams.
- Spend time on the shop floor with maintenance and operations personnel during troubleshooting, improvement activities, and supervision.
- Promote a strong safety, environmental, regulatory, quality, productivity, cost control, and asset management culture.
- Support compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations.
- Communicate plant maintenance issues, concerns, and updates to the Plant Manager and site leadership.
- Build strong working relationships with maintenance personnel, operations, contractors, and plant leadership.
- Support continuous improvement efforts and help execute plant improvement projects.
- Align maintenance practices with reliability-based asset management goals.
- Monitor and maintain the integrity of plant assets and protective systems.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- 7 or more years of experience in a chemical manufacturing, process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, or plant maintenance environment.
- Maintenance leadership, maintenance supervision, or maintenance management experience.
- Experience leading mechanics, technicians, contractors, or maintenance personnel.
- Strong ability to organize, prioritize, and manage maintenance work in a high-tempo plant environment.
- Experience with maintenance budgeting, repair budgets, project budgets, or capital project support.
- Working knowledge of plant equipment, mechanical systems, and process manufacturing operations.
- Familiarity with equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, reactors, filtration systems, flow measurement equipment, conveyors, mills, and bulk solid or powder material transfer systems.
- Ability to read, interpret, or work with technical documentation such as PFDs, P&IDs, equipment layouts, equipment lists, manuals, and drawings.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to hold people accountable, push back when needed, and lead through competing priorities.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with plant personnel, contractors, and leadership.
- Strong safety mindset and ability to lead by example in a manufacturing environment.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Technical degree, STEM degree, trade school, or equivalent technical training.
- Chemical manufacturing experience.
- Experience managing capital projects in the $300K-$700K range.
- Experience with reliability-based asset management systems.
- Experience with CMMS, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, maintenance planning, and maintenance scheduling.
- Familiarity with OSHA regulations.
- Experience managing contractors in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
- Experience supporting continuous improvement projects.
- Military maintenance leadership experience, especially when paired with manufacturing, industrial, utilities, mechanical, or process equipment experience.
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