Maintenance and Reliability Manager

About the Job

Maintenance & Reliability Manager

1st Shift | $125,000-$140,000 | Onsite

We are seeking a highly skilled Maintenance & Reliability Manager to lead and elevate maintenance and reliability performance within a capital-intensive, heavy manufacturing environment. This is a strategic, engineering-focused leadership role responsible for driving equipment reliability, advancing a best-in-class Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program, and implementing data-driven reliability initiatives.

This role goes beyond traditional maintenance management, requiring a leader who can analyze systems, optimize asset performance, and build a proactive reliability culture. The ideal candidate will bring a strong engineering foundation, deep experience with reliability practices, and the ability to lead both people and programs at a high level.

The Maintenance & Reliability Manager will oversee preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance strategies, reduce downtime and production losses, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across multiple sites. This position manages approximately 16 direct reports and balances technical leadership (40%) with strategic and people leadership (60%).

We are seeking candidates with deep experience in heavy manufacturing environments and a strong background in reliability engineering and maintenance program development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of maintenance professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Own and advance the site's reliability strategy, including preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Design and implement scalable maintenance and reliability systems, ensuring consistency across multiple plants.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA), failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) to eliminate recurring failures.
• Partner with operations, engineering, and leadership teams to improve asset utilization, uptime, and operational efficiency.
• Analyze equipment performance data and maintenance metrics to identify trends and drive proactive solutions.
• Lead the evolution of the CMMS (Maintain
  
  X) as a reliability and planning tool, including asset data integrity, work order optimization, and spares strategy.
• Develop and manage a critical spares and asset strategy aligned with reliability goals and risk mitigation.
• Support capital projects with a focus on equipment reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost optimization.
• Champion initiatives such as TPM, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement programs, including Gemba walks and Kaizen events.
• Ensure compliance with safety standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies.
• Lead and execute reliability-focused projects, including system upgrades, automation improvements, and predictive technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or related field strongly preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability engineering, or asset management within heavy manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success in building or leading reliability programs-not just maintenance execution.
• 7+ years of leadership experience managing maintenance or reliability teams.
• Strong expertise in predictive maintenance technologies, reliability tools, and failure analysis methodologies (RCA, FMEA, RCM).
• Experience implementing or advancing TPM or reliability-centered maintenance frameworks.
• Proven ability to use data and analytics to drive decision-making and performance improvement.
• Experience with CMMS systems (Maintain
  
  X preferred) with a focus on system optimization and data integrity.
• Strong technical acumen with knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Financial acumen related to maintenance cost optimization and capital planning.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with PLCs, AutoCAD, or ERP systems is a plus.

What Sets This Role Apart:

• Focus on engineering and reliability leadership, not just maintenance supervision.
• Opportunity to build and enhance a best-in-class reliability program.
• High visibility role with impact across multiple sites and leadership teams.
• Emphasis on data-driven decision-making and long-term asset strategy.

About the Company

Evolving materials for a changing world

Circularity isn't just about reusing and recycling, it's about empowering innovation and imagination. Together with our customers, we lead the effort in bringing new value to end-of-life materials through a 4-step circularity model. Driven by transformation and inspired by the versatility of rubber, Ecore is a rubber circularity company.