Lead CMMS Maintenance Data Manager

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Lead CMMS Maintenance Data Manager to own and manage the overall CMMS maintenance build scope, delivery plan, schedule, resources, and acceptance criteria. The role will lead asset register, asset hierarchy, BOM, and maintenance build workstreams while ensuring data quality, governance, and delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall CMMS maintenance build scope, delivery plan, schedule, milestones, resource plan, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead and coordinate Asset Register & Asset Hierarchy, BOM, and Maintenance Build workstreams.
• Serve as the primary client interface and maintain relationships with Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, IT, and project leadership.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, technical workshops, progress reviews, issue-resolution sessions, and management presentations.
• Manage scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, change requests, quality metrics, productivity, and corrective actions.
• Establish build rules, data standards, naming conventions, validation controls, traceability requirements, and load-readiness criteria.
• Provide technical oversight for functional locations, equipment records, hierarchy relationships, equipment BOMs, material linkages, maintenance plans, items, strategies, and task lists.
• Review P&IDs, OEM manuals, equipment lists, datasheets, drawings, SPIR/SPIL information, regulatory requirements, and existing CMMS data.
• Assess existing maintenance strategies and CMMS build maturity; identify gaps, duplication, obsolete content, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure deliverables are complete, standardized, traceable, load-ready, and aligned with company standards and ISO 14224 principles.
• Oversee pre-load validation, post-load verification, defect closure, approval evidence, and handover documentation.
• Coach team members, allocate work, remove delivery constraints, and promote collaboration and accountability.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Asset Management, or a related discipline.
• 10 years of CMMS, EAM, SAP PM/MM, maintenance data, or asset management experience.
• 5 years of experience leading maintenance build, CMMS implementation, data migration, or master data improvement programs.
• Demonstrated project management, team leadership, customer relationship management, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Strong understanding of asset hierarchies, equipment masters, BOMs, material master integration, preventive maintenance, task lists, and maintenance strategies.
• Hands-on ability to interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering documents, and existing CMMS content.
• Advanced reporting, reconciliation, data-quality, and Microsoft Excel capabilities.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA PM/MM and mass-load tools.
• Experience in Client, oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, process, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Knowledge of ISO 14224, reliability-centered maintenance, criticality, spare-parts optimization, and master data governance.
• Project management certification such as PMP or equivalent preferred.
  
  

Core Capabilities

• Project management, planning, progress tracking, risk management, and delivery governance.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent client relationship management, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, engineering drawings, equipment datasheets, equipment lists, and vendor documentation.
• Ability to analyze maintenance strategies, CMMS structures, data quality, and build maturity and recommend practical improvements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and Microsoft Excel skills.