Senior Manager - Engineering Asset Management

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula.

We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in more than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

The Senior Manager, Asset Management
- Engineering Services, leads Hilmar's asset management processes to optimize the delivery and performance of assets to ensure asset value realization. This role designs, implements, and manages enterprise asset management business processes, leading change management to drive adoption across the organization. This leader defines and facilitates processes for asset lifecycle planning, investment decisions, asset risk management frameworks, and value-based decision making to advance asset management maturity across the enterprise.

• Lead implementation of Hilmar's asset management strategy.
• Develop and maintain asset management standards, processes, and governance.
• Establish asset management business process governance practices, including defining roles and responsibilities for asset management teams.
• Develop, implement, and lead business processes for asset plans, lifecycle strategies, and investment roadmaps.
• Lead asset criticality, asset integrity, and risk-based decision making and prioritization processes.
• Develop and manage asset management risk framework and business processes, ensuring risks are visible that the asset management strategy must consider, including supplier risks and procurement strategies.
• Develop and manage business processes to appraise asset investment options, apply whole life costing principles, and evaluate asset rationalization and technology options within a cost-risk optimization framework.
• Partner across the enterprise to define asset information standards, and specify, select, and integrate asset information systems to asset management business processes and strategies.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to support asset status, asset risk management, and decision making.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of asset management strategies.
• Partner with PMO teams, manufacturing, reliability, engineering, and finance to prioritize asset decisions and investments.
• Facilitate cross-functional asset management planning, governance, and improvement initiatives.
• Develop and communicate asset management plans, manage change relating to assets and systems, and enable asset knowledge across the enterprise.
• Lead change management efforts that support the adoption of asset management business processes, including identifying and implementing changes to individual and team roles and responsibilities.
• Collaborate with leadership to promote and shape Hilmar's asset management culture at the right pace, ensuring stakeholders are engaged as appropriate.
• Identify and implement best practices that improve asset performance and lifecycle value.
• Advance enterprise asset management maturity using IAM and ISO 55000 principles.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from ABET-accredited institution.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, asset management,…