Maintenance, Reliability & Automation Manager

Ready to Lead a Reliability Transformation?

We're seeking a Reliability & Automation Manager to lead maintenance, reliability, controls, and automation for a high-volume production facility.

This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who wants to make a measurable impact on plant performance by driving equipment reliability, reducing downtime, improving OEE, and advancing predictive maintenance initiatives.

If you're passionate about automation, reliability engineering, and building high-performing maintenance teams, this could be an outstanding next step in your career.

What You'll Own

• Lead plant maintenance, reliability, and automation operations.
• Drive initiatives that improve uptime, throughput, and equipment performance.
• Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Build a proactive reliability culture using data-driven decision making.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action efforts for critical equipment failures.
• Oversee PLCs, robotics, automation systems, HMIs, drives, vision systems, and controls infrastructure.
• Manage maintenance personnel, controls technicians, contractors, and service providers.
• Drive capital projects, equipment upgrades, and automation investments.
• Partner with operations leadership to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventories, and reliability metrics.
• Support continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory standards.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• 7+ years of maintenance and reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing maintenance or technical teams.
• Experience implementing predictive maintenance and reliability programs.
• Proven track record of improving equipment uptime and reducing downtime.

Strong background in:

• PLCs and controls
• HMIs
• VFDs
• Servo systems
• Robotics and automation

Preferred Background

• Injection molding, plastics, packaging, food production, or other high-speed manufacturing environments.
• Experience with Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
• CMMS experience.
• Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma exposure.
• Reliability certifications such as CMRP or CRL are a plus.
• Engineering or technical degree preferred.

Why This Opportunity?

• High-impact leadership role
• Strong visibility with plant leadership
• Opportunity to modernize maintenance and reliability practices
• Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Influence capital investments and long-term equipment strategy
• Build and develop a skilled maintenance and controls team