STEUBEN – Ordinarily, Tom Richmond likes to make a big show, a PowerPoint presentation showing all of the financial numbers, as a town manager at town meetings. But Richmond will be showing only his face for the first time Saturday at Steuben’s annual town meeting.

The town’s new manager had his first day on the job Thursday after selectmen voted to hire him Wednesday. Saturday’s gathering at 3:30 p.m. at the Ella Lewis School gymnasium will serve as his formal introduction to residents.

“I love town meetings,” he said Thursday. “But this time, I’ll only be listening.”

Richmond, who has held positions in town government for 12 years, comes to Steuben from Carmel, where he was the town manager for six years until last month. He previously had worked for 18 months in the same position in Tremont. That was preceded by five years as the manager in Greene in Androscoggin County.

He lives in Bass Harbor on Mount Desert Island, and finds the 43-mile drive to work more manageable than the 65-mile drive he faced when working in Carmel.

“That’s one of the reasons I’m here,” Richmond said Thursday.

Steuben’s selectmen chose Richmond from five applicants for the position that was vacant since early January. They did not renew the contract of the previous town manager, Robert Sharkey, after his six-month probationary period ended.

Frank Joy, one of the five selectmen, said Richmond was hired because of his extensive experience with roadwork and financial accounting.

“We also liked his recommendations from his former employers in Carmel,” Joy said Thursday.

Joy himself will work with Steuben for three more years after his re-election to the only selectman’s position open during voting last Monday.

In a three-way contest, Joy received 71 votes to 61 for Emory P. West and 34 for John Garnett III.

Garnett won an uncontested seat as an overseer with a one-year term, and Ann Briggs won an uncontested overseer’s seat with a three-year term.

In other open positions, Adelbert Pinkham, already one of the selectmen, was elected as an assessor for three years. David Glass was returned to the school board, also for three years.

Residents voted 103-66 in a referendum that authorizes selectmen to borrow up to $100,000 for the purposes of a revaluation of the town. Steuben has been the only town in Maine never to have conducted a revaluation, Joy said.

The revaluation will start as soon as late spring, and should take up to two years.

Thirty articles will be heard at Saturday’s meeting.