Preservation & Maintenance Manager

Job Description

What to Expect: As Tesla’s Preservation and Maintenance Manager on Tesla’s industrial construction team, you will own the integrity of stored and staged equipment and materials across one of the most ambitious and advanced processing facility builds in America. From advanced custom fabricated tanks and vessels, rotating equipment to valves, instruments, and fabricated assemblies and skids, you will ensure preservation plans are executed, conditions are monitored, and critically valuable assets remain install-ready and commissioning-ready after months in laydown. You will also build and staff the preservation team, sizing it to the asset population and the skill mix the work demands. This is a detail-critical leadership role for someone who understands that poor preservation becomes irreversible project loss, rework, and startup risk. If you protect equipment like the project depends on it, as it does, this role was built for you. What You’ll Do:

• Own preservation staffing, sizing the crew against the equipment delivery curve and laydown population, and recruiting, training, and qualifying technicians so work packs are executed the same way every time

• Own day-to-day preservation and preventive maintenance execution for equipment and critical materials in warehouse, laydown, and staging areas prior to installation

• Develop and enforce preservation work packs and routines based on manufacturer requirements and project specifications, including lubrication, rotation, nitrogen purge, desiccants, coatings, caps/plugs, and environmental protection

• Own and direct the preservation team, and coordinate with Warehouse, Logistics, Quality, Construction, and Commissioning to prioritize high-risk and long-lead assets

• Perform and document condition inspections, humidity/pressure checks, and preservation status audits, maintaining traceable records for each tagged asset

• Identify preservation failures or at-risk equipment early, drive corrective actions, and escalate impacts before equipment is released to the field

• Coordinate OEM and specialty vendor preservation requirements for complex rotating and process equipment, ensuring compliance through storage and pre install handover

• Partner with Construction and Commissioning on install-ready status, ensuring preserved equipment transfers with clear documentation and no hidden deficiencies

Skills and Requirements

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in equipment preservation, mechanical maintenance, reliability, or materials caretaking on industrial, refining, chemical, power, or major capital project sites

• Direct experience building and leading preservation, maintenance, or reliability crews, including hiring, training, qualifying, and performance-managing technicians and specialty contract labor

• Demonstrated ownership of preservation programs for rotating equipment, process equipment, and bulk commodity protection in outdoor laydown and warehouse environments

• Strong working knowledge of manufacturer preservation requirements, lubrication practices, nitrogen blanketing/purge, moisture control, and corrosion prevention methods

• Proven ability to build and run inspection routines, checklists, and traceable preservation records at scale

• Detail-driven leader who can manage many tagged assets simultaneously without losing status accuracy

• Effective communicator across Warehouse, Quality, Construction, and Commissioning teams

• Hands-on, accountable operator with extreme ownership who protects equipment integrity as if startup depends on it

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].