Reliability Specialist – Maintenance & Governance

Title:

Reliability Specialist – Maintenance & Governance

Location:

Kennewick, WA

Job

Requisition
-270851

Time Type:
Full time

The Senior Reliability Specialist – Maintenance Systems and Governance is responsible for enterprise ownership, governance, and continuous improvement of maintenance systems and standards, with a primary focus on SAP PM and MRO-related functionality. This role ensures maintenance processes, master data, and system configurations enable reliable execution at the plant level while supporting corporate consistency, scalability, and long-term reliability objectives.

• Own and govern SAP PM and related maintenance system capabilities across all manufacturing sites, ensuring consistent, effective, and reliable system usage aligned with corporate reliability objectives.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of corporate maintenance and SAP PM standards, ensuring alignment with reliability strategy, operational needs, and best practices across the network.
• Translate reliability strategy and business requirements into practical, system-enabled solutions that support preventive maintenance, planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Design, configure, test, and validate SAP PM solutions and enhancements, ensuring changes are stable, scalable, and suitable for enterprise deployment before rollout.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for SAP PM design, configuration, and governance decisions, including review and approval of standard deviations when required.
• Develop and deliver training, guidance, and standard work for planners and maintenance teams, while serving as a mentor and technical resource for SAP PM and maintenance system capability development.
• Own SAP system elements supporting MRO governance, ensuring alignment between maintenance planning, equipment BOMs, procurement processes, and storeroom practices.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise on SAP PM data structure, data quality, and interpretation, supporting maintenance and reliability metrics while partnering with analytics resources for reporting and dashboarding.
• Partner with site maintenance, reliability, operations, and corporate teams to drive consistent system usage, support assessments and audits, identify gaps, and continuously improve maintenance system effectiveness.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, Information Systems, or a related technical field preferred.
• Equivalent experience in maintenance systems governance and SAP PM may be considered in lieu of formal education.

• Experience in maintenance systems, reliability, or asset management within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP PM, including preventive maintenance, task lists, work order management, notifications, and master data governance.
• Experience developing, governing, and deploying maintenance standards across multiple sites.
• Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, failure analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proven ability to design, test, validate, and implement system solutions prior to enterprise deployment.
• Experience supporting MRO‑related system functionality and integration with maintenance planning processes.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills related to system usage, data quality, and process effectiveness.
• Ability to interpret maintenance and reliability data and support development of meaningful metrics and reports.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.

• Some travel may be required.
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal.
• The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephone and other office equipment in the course of a normal workday.
• Stooping, bending, twisting and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
• Exposure to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature.
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