This position will provide strategic leadership for maintenance, reliability, and asset management processes and teams across the network to increase efficiency, lower costs, improve quality, and reduce downtime of production equipment. Focus area for this position is to provide strong leadership and technical expertise by fostering a culture of learning, teamwork, continuous improvement, and innovation, working in partnership with the Manufacturing, Operational Excellence and Engineering.

To Perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function.

• Establish leadership standards for the maintenance and reliability personnel, setting the strategy, developing team and leadership capabilities, coaching, and supporting maintenance leadership on budget management, and delivering continuous improvement in asset reliability.
• Manage a matrix for the maintenance organization that includes skills development to provide improved reliability performance and service.
• Develop and coordinate strategies that accelerate and improve operations and maintenance practices to improve equipment performance, reliability, and lower maintenance costs.
• Develop maintenance standards and identify and promote best practices in collaboration with the plant maintenance and operations teams with an emphasis on equipment criticality, equipment condition inspections, effective planning, and scheduling, completing high quality maintenance repairs, and safety, health & environmental policies, and procedures.
• Work in partnership with the facility leadership to achieve facility objectives. Establish, provide governance, and ensure continuous improvement of reliability processes.
• Provide technical ownership and leadership as Reliability and Maintenance SME for equipment for network projects.
• Participate in the capital planning process. Recommend maintenance and sustaining capital budget, develop justifications for sustaining capital projects. Determine and track investments in reliability technology, systems, and methods to ensure maximum ROI.
• Develop budget tracking tools and reporting in collaboration with finance to enable review of expenditures against forecasts to assure appropriate spending levels. Develop and champion the maintenance budget process and foster partnerships in the cross-functional accountability of adhering to budgetary objectives.
• Support and drive the implementation of projects for predictive maintenance and condition monitoring, such as CMMS systems.
• Together with the sites, take a lead to develop and set up KPI’s to monitor asset health and develop and own a dashboard with the goal to provide continuous monitoring of asset health.
• Analyze operational data and equipment performance history (OEE) to deliver improvements in critical maintenance related metrics: unplanned downtime, PM compliance, schedule compliance, Mean-Time-Between-Failures, and maintenance costs.
• Maintain excellent lines of communication with Maintenance, Production, Finance and other departments.
• Maintain an open and candid working relationship with immediate supervisor/manager in discussing matters of importance.
• Adhere to established company values, practices, policies and procedures at all times. Follow and support compliance with all applicable safety rules, laws, regulations, and standards.
• Demonstrate regular and punctual attendance at the assigned work location.
• Travel 50% of time

Although not essential to the position, the individual may be asked to perform other duties.

An individual qualified for this job must be able to:

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance / technical engineering role in a manufacturing environment.
• Results driven individual with strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills desired to engage effectively and collaboratively across the organization to drive the best outcomes and achieve business objectives.
• Strong technical, analytical, problem-solving skills with knowledge across maintenance, engineering, and operations, including:
• Predictive Maintenance, Digitization and Automation methodologies and tools.
• Lean Manufacturing
• Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Risk Based Maintenance, Risk-Based Inspection, (RCM, RBI) methodologies.
• Capability to relate and connect the maintenance and reliability team to the business objectives of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead a multi-functional team and foster a proactive team environment.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) preferred.
• Willing to be a hands-on member of the maintenance team for the purposes of training and network support.
• Understanding of AutoCAD
• Willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
• Able to travel approximately 50% of the time, domestically.

Experience level:

• Bachelor's degree or at least 7 years of experience.
• CMMS: 2 years (Preferred)
• Reliability Engineering: 3 years (Preferred)
• Preventative Maintenance: 3 years (Preferred)