Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Carlisle Companies is a leading manufacturer of building envelope products and solutions that make buildings more energy efficient, durable, and sustainable.

We deliver roofing, insulation, waterproofing, and architectural systems for commercial and residential projects using a focus on innovation and continuous improvement to solve today’s challenges.

We’re equally committed to our people, prioritizing safety, inclusion, career growth, development, tuition assistance, and excellent benefits.

With manufacturing, engineering, operations, and corporate functions across North America and globally, Carlisle offers stability, agility, and opportunity in a performance-driven culture. Do meaningful work and shape the future of building solutions.

Job Summary

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager is responsible for leading the plant's maintenance, reliability, and engineering functions to maximize equipment uptime, asset life cycle performance, safety, quality, and operational efficiency. This position provides strategic direction for preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs while managing maintenance personnel, capital projects, engineering initiatives, maintenance budgets, and continuous improvement efforts.

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager serves as the technical leader for equipment reliability and asset management, partnering closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Corporate teams to improve manufacturing performance through data-driven decision making, root cause analysis, reliability engineering, and maintenance best practices.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Departmental Management

• Provides leadership and direction for the plant's maintenance and reliability functions. Areas of responsibility include:
  • preventative maintenance
  • predictive maintenance
  • reliability-centered maintenance
  • equipment utilization
  • parts inventory control
  • maintenance planning and scheduling
  • energy management
  • vibration analysis
  • condition monitoring
  • asset life cycle management
  • project identification and justification
  • craftsmen development
  • failure analysis
  • equipment modifications
  • fire/loss prevention
  • budget management
• Establishes direction for the maintenance department to ensure adoption of industry best practices and continuous improvement methodologies that improve equipment reliability and operational performance.
• Responsible for developing departmental budget needs, justifying expenditures, and maintaining costs within approved budget parameters. Expected to understand the relationship between equipment performance, maintenance costs, and overall manufacturing profitability.

Reliability Leadership

• Develops and implements reliability-centered maintenance strategies to improve equipment uptime and asset longevity.
• Leads predictive maintenance activities including vibration analysis, lubrication management, thermography, ultrasonic inspections, motor circuit analysis, pressure differential monitoring, and other condition-based monitoring technologies.
• Utilizes CMMS, production systems, and operational data to identify reliability improvement opportunities and prioritize maintenance activities.
• Leads root cause analysis investigations and develops corrective actions for chronic equipment failures, downtime losses, and maintenance-related quality concerns.
• Coordinates preventive maintenance optimization efforts to improve PM effectiveness and technician efficiency.
• Identifies obsolete equipment and components and develops replacement, upgrade, and modernization strategies.

Supervision

• Directly supervises maintenance supervisors, planners, reliability personnel, and other departmental employees as assigned.
• Supervisory duties include hiring, promoting, coaching, counseling, training, work prioritization, goal setting, disciplinary action, performance evaluations, and employee development.
• Ensures maintenance personnel are properly trained and qualified to safely perform assigned work.
• Assures compliance with all company policies and governmental requirements related to personnel management.

Maintenance Operations

• Ensures effective execution of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
• Works closely…