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Shift Manager jobs on OPT are available across retail, food service, logistics, and hospitality. Most roles require hands-on supervisory experience and fall outside the STEM OPT extension, so your standard 12-month OPT period typically applies. Employers in high-turnover industries often hire quickly, making timing your application relative to your OPT start date critical.
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Cleveland-Cliffs has an immediate opportunity for a Shift Manager Maintenance at our Toledo, OH HBI location. The Shift Manager Maintenance is responsible for overseeing and coordinating craft workers who perform mechanical and electrical maintenance on plant equipment. This position has direct accountability of executing planned and break-in work throughout the site on a rotating shift basis.
Summary of Responsibilities:
- Lead and promote Iron Units health, safety, and environment policies and procedures.
- Ensure daily and weekly maintenance schedules are executed in an efficient manner.
- Responsible for job preparation activities, including assignment of craftsmen to jobs, reviewing scope of work, identifying and communicating changes to plan, verifying availability of materials and tools, and confirming schedule viability.
- Identify deviations from maintenance plan and assign tasks appropriately to correct or minimize impact.
- Optimize the utilization of craftsman and ensure crews are executing work correctly and consistently.
- Establish high performance standards and set goals to attain them.
- Provide leadership to team of direct reports, so they are clear about their role purpose, level of work, and task assignments.
- Ensures the appropriate technical resources are notified and consulted to test and evaluate equipment as appropriate.
- Ensures accurate and complete data is captured regarding repair work, equipment data, changes to plan, and recommendations for future work.
- Creates and maintains a proactive focus towards equipment maintenance.
- Develops and reports assigned performance measures and utilizes information to identify and institute improvements.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators on a continuous basis in order to gauge efficiency and cost effectiveness within the maintenance execution process cycle of work identification, planning, scheduling, work execution, and continuous improvement. Actively provide feedback on performance of maintenance process and sub processes that impact execution.
- Interpret sketches and drawings.
- Plan work procedures for break in work.
- Issue permit to work, hot work, and confined space permits where required.
- Ensure crew timesheets are accurate and approved daily.
- Actively review jobs in the field to identify potential issues with methods and means.
- Administer corporate, site, and departmental policies, work procedures and systems fairly.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate's degree in business or related field. May consider equivalent experience.
- Journeyman Millwright, Welder or Iron Worker.
- 3-5 years of experience in heavy industrial environment preferably steel, hydrocarbon or mining environment.
- Strong mechanical background (preferably with experience in pipe materials, specifications, fittings, seals, water piping/pumping systems, compressible fluid piping/pumping systems, welding, conveying equipment, gearing/bearings/power transmission, rigging/iron working, machining procedures, tolerances, use of power/hydraulic tools, high temperature refractory clipping and refractory.
- Experience overseeing, leading, and coaching people.
- Microsoft Office experience (Excel, Word, etc.).
- Understanding of shop mathematics with the use of drawings, specifications, charts, tables, and precision measuring instruments.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and effectively manage multiple/changing priorities.
- Effectively communicate both orally and through written text.
- Ability to read and constructively influence personnel in team processes.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and effectively manage multiple/changing priorities.
- Ability to read and understand O&M manuals.
- Ability to read and understand regulatory documents including API, ASME standard.
- Occasionally lifting up to 25lbs.
- Mobility required. Must be able to handle stairs and long periods of work on your feet.
- Routinely exposed to plant environment including noise, dust, dirt and vibrations, extreme climate changes / changes in weather.
- Ability to work at heights.
- Willing to work shift work.
- Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) experience; Ellipse preferred.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including competitive pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off, and more.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to careers@clevelandcliffs.com or call 1-(312) 899-3097 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Do not email your application materials to this email address. Application materials sent to this email address will not be considered.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is an equal opportunity employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. We are a drug-free workplace and conduct pre-employment screening as a condition of employment.
Location: Toledo, OH
Cleveland-Cliffs has an immediate opportunity for a Shift Manager Maintenance at our Toledo, OH HBI location. The Shift Manager Maintenance is responsible for overseeing and coordinating craft workers who perform mechanical and electrical maintenance on plant equipment. This position has direct accountability of executing planned and break-in work throughout the site on a rotating shift basis.
Summary of Responsibilities:
- Lead and promote Iron Units health, safety, and environment policies and procedures.
- Ensure daily and weekly maintenance schedules are executed in an efficient manner.
- Responsible for job preparation activities, including assignment of craftsmen to jobs, reviewing scope of work, identifying and communicating changes to plan, verifying availability of materials and tools, and confirming schedule viability.
- Identify deviations from maintenance plan and assign tasks appropriately to correct or minimize impact.
- Optimize the utilization of craftsman and ensure crews are executing work correctly and consistently.
- Establish high performance standards and set goals to attain them.
- Provide leadership to team of direct reports, so they are clear about their role purpose, level of work, and task assignments.
- Ensures the appropriate technical resources are notified and consulted to test and evaluate equipment as appropriate.
- Ensures accurate and complete data is captured regarding repair work, equipment data, changes to plan, and recommendations for future work.
- Creates and maintains a proactive focus towards equipment maintenance.
- Develops and reports assigned performance measures and utilizes information to identify and institute improvements.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators on a continuous basis in order to gauge efficiency and cost effectiveness within the maintenance execution process cycle of work identification, planning, scheduling, work execution, and continuous improvement. Actively provide feedback on performance of maintenance process and sub processes that impact execution.
- Interpret sketches and drawings.
- Plan work procedures for break in work.
- Issue permit to work, hot work, and confined space permits where required.
- Ensure crew timesheets are accurate and approved daily.
- Actively review jobs in the field to identify potential issues with methods and means.
- Administer corporate, site, and departmental policies, work procedures and systems fairly.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate's degree in business or related field. May consider equivalent experience.
- Journeyman Millwright, Welder or Iron Worker.
- 3-5 years of experience in heavy industrial environment preferably steel, hydrocarbon or mining environment.
- Strong mechanical background (preferably with experience in pipe materials, specifications, fittings, seals, water piping/pumping systems, compressible fluid piping/pumping systems, welding, conveying equipment, gearing/bearings/power transmission, rigging/iron working, machining procedures, tolerances, use of power/hydraulic tools, high temperature refractory clipping and refractory.
- Experience overseeing, leading, and coaching people.
- Microsoft Office experience (Excel, Word, etc.).
- Understanding of shop mathematics with the use of drawings, specifications, charts, tables, and precision measuring instruments.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and effectively manage multiple/changing priorities.
- Effectively communicate both orally and through written text.
- Ability to read and constructively influence personnel in team processes.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and effectively manage multiple/changing priorities.
- Ability to read and understand O&M manuals.
- Ability to read and understand regulatory documents including API, ASME standard.
- Occasionally lifting up to 25lbs.
- Mobility required. Must be able to handle stairs and long periods of work on your feet.
- Routinely exposed to plant environment including noise, dust, dirt and vibrations, extreme climate changes / changes in weather.
- Ability to work at heights.
- Willing to work shift work.
- Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) experience; Ellipse preferred.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including competitive pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off, and more.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to careers@clevelandcliffs.com or call 1-(312) 899-3097 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Do not email your application materials to this email address. Application materials sent to this email address will not be considered.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is an equal opportunity employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. We are a drug-free workplace and conduct pre-employment screening as a condition of employment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Shift Manager
Apply before your OPT starts
Retail and food service chains often have multi-week onboarding timelines. Submitting applications two to three months before your OPT start date gives employers time to complete hiring without waiting on your work authorization.
Highlight supervisory volume in your resume
Shift Manager roles are evaluated on team size, throughput metrics, and scheduling ownership. Quantify how many employees you supervised and the volume you managed, such as daily transactions or units processed, to stand out immediately.
Confirm your OPT is tied to your degree field
Most Shift Manager positions are non-STEM, so they won't qualify for the 24-month STEM extension. Verify your original major before applying to avoid mismatched expectations with employers about how long you can work without sponsorship.
Target multi-location employers for transfer flexibility
Large regional or national operators can transfer you between locations without restarting hiring. This matters if your OPT authorization is location-agnostic and you want to stay employed if your initial site closes or restructures.
Address your authorization window proactively with employers
Many employers in operations don't sponsor visas. Being upfront that you're authorized for 12 months filters out dead ends early and lets you focus energy on employers genuinely open to sponsorship or long-term contract arrangements.
Pursue employers with H-1B sponsorship history in management roles
Some hospitality and logistics companies have sponsored H-1B visas for operations and management positions. Researching sponsorship history before applying helps you prioritize outreach toward companies already familiar with the process.
Shift Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Shift Manager on OPT?
Yes, Shift Manager roles are generally eligible for OPT work authorization if the position is related to your field of study. Business, hospitality management, and operations degrees commonly align with supervisory roles. Non-STEM majors will have a 12-month OPT period, so timing your job search and offer acceptance carefully is important.
Do Shift Manager jobs qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Shift Manager positions do not typically qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Most roles in retail, food service, and logistics are not classified under STEM degree categories. If your degree is in a STEM field and the employer can frame the role around technical functions, an immigration attorney can assess whether an extension argument holds.
Will employers sponsor H-1B visas for Shift Manager roles?
H-1B sponsorship for Shift Manager positions is uncommon but not unheard of. Specialty occupation requirements under the H-1B make it harder to qualify management roles unless they involve specialized knowledge or a direct degree requirement. Large hospitality or logistics companies with dedicated immigration programs are your best targets. Migrate Mate lists employers with sponsorship histories to help you narrow your search.
How should I handle the OPT authorization gap between jobs?
OPT allows up to 90 days of unemployment for non-STEM students. If you leave one Shift Manager role before securing another, that gap counts toward your 90-day limit. Report any employment changes to your DSO promptly and update your SEVIS record. Staying within the limit protects your immigration status and any future visa applications.
What types of employers hire Shift Managers on OPT?
Retail chains, quick-service restaurants, warehousing and distribution companies, and hotel operations are the most active hirers for Shift Manager roles. Many of these employers have experience with work-authorized candidates and structured onboarding timelines. Migrate Mate is the best place to browse Shift Manager openings from employers open to OPT candidates, without sifting through listings that require sponsorship.