What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering & Maintenance Manager, Fab West position at Constellium?
Job Summary:
The Engineering and Maintenance Manager (Fab West) is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing maintenance, engineering, reliability, and risk management within the Plate and Hot Line buisness units. This position ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of plant assets by leading cross-functional teams in maintenance, predictive maintenance, and business unit engineering. The role is pivotal in driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and long-term asset integrity.
Responsibilities:
With ~1,100 employees, Constellium’s plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is one of the world’s largest rolled products facilities, offering customers the most powerful plate stretchers in the world, as well as one of the largest cold rolling mills. Built in 1957, the plant houses 62 acres (about 250,900 m²) of production facilities, and is one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
We produce plate, sheet, and coil products for aerospace, defense, transportation, marine, and industrial uses. As the global leader in aluminum aerospace technology, we specialize in high performance plates, sheets and extrusions that bring cost and performance benefits to space programs and military and commercial aircraft. Our advanced aluminum products manufactured in the US, France and Switzerland can be found in platforms manufactured by Airbus, Applied Materials, Blue Origin, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, General Dynamics, LAM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and others. The Ravenswood facility is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Ohio River. It is the largest employer in Jackson County, and one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
A culture of family, community, and hard work runs deep in Jackson County. Located in the western region of West Virginia, it is one of the most productive regions in the state, with Ripley as its countyseat and Ravenswood serving as its largest municipality. Ripley sits between the Parkersburg and Charleston metropolitan areas.
The region offers plenty of activities, both open-air and indoors, for a wide range of interests. These include parks, lakes, forests, Civil War trails, golf courses, historical landmarks (covered bridges, a heritage house, a castle), museums and galleries, conference centers, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Charleston Light Opera Guild, and much more.
Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer : Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
The Engineering and Maintenance Manager (Fab West) is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing maintenance, engineering, reliability, and risk management within the Plate and Hot Line buisness units. This position ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of plant assets by leading cross-functional teams in maintenance, predictive maintenance, and business unit engineering. The role is pivotal in driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and long-term asset integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute long-term strategies for maintenance and engineering excellence aligned with plant and corporate goals
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of engineers, technicians, and maintenance personnel
- Foster a culture of safety, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Utilize predictive technologies (vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, etc.) to reduce downtime and extend equipment life
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external contractors to deliver high-impact improvements
- Ensure availability of critical spares and timely repair of components
- Demonstrated experience managing contracted services and external vendors in a unionized manufacturing environment
- Strong understanding of labor agreements and ability to navigate union protocols while ensuring compliance and collaboration
- Skilled in balancing internal workforce capabilities with outsourced solutions to optimize cost, efficiency, and labor relations
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline, required
- CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional), preferred
- 10 years of engineering experience in a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment, required
- 5 years in a leadership or managerial role (preferably in aluminum or metals industry), required
- Strong knowledge of reliability engineering and automation, strongly preferred
- Experience managing large teams and complex projects in a union environment, required
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering principles including RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance), TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), and predictive maintenance technologies, required
- Proficient in root cause analysis (RCA), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), and asset lifecycle management, strongly preferred
- Experience implementing and optimizing CMMS systems and reliability KPIs, strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of industrial fire protection systems including sprinklers, fire alarms, suppression systems and fire pumps, strong plus
- Strong background in industrial automation including PLCs and HMI systems, required
- Experience with system integration, control logic development, and troubleshooting of automated equipment, strongly preferred
- Experience with energy management systems and utility optimization, strongly preferred
With ~1,100 employees, Constellium’s plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is one of the world’s largest rolled products facilities, offering customers the most powerful plate stretchers in the world, as well as one of the largest cold rolling mills. Built in 1957, the plant houses 62 acres (about 250,900 m²) of production facilities, and is one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
We produce plate, sheet, and coil products for aerospace, defense, transportation, marine, and industrial uses. As the global leader in aluminum aerospace technology, we specialize in high performance plates, sheets and extrusions that bring cost and performance benefits to space programs and military and commercial aircraft. Our advanced aluminum products manufactured in the US, France and Switzerland can be found in platforms manufactured by Airbus, Applied Materials, Blue Origin, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, General Dynamics, LAM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and others. The Ravenswood facility is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Ohio River. It is the largest employer in Jackson County, and one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
A culture of family, community, and hard work runs deep in Jackson County. Located in the western region of West Virginia, it is one of the most productive regions in the state, with Ripley as its countyseat and Ravenswood serving as its largest municipality. Ripley sits between the Parkersburg and Charleston metropolitan areas.
The region offers plenty of activities, both open-air and indoors, for a wide range of interests. These include parks, lakes, forests, Civil War trails, golf courses, historical landmarks (covered bridges, a heritage house, a castle), museums and galleries, conference centers, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Charleston Light Opera Guild, and much more.
Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer : Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.