Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Position: Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Location: Louisville, KY

Job : 474

# of Openings: 1

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager is focused on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of systems and equipment and implements strategies to drive improvements and minimize downtime and costs. The Maintenance and Reliability Manager directly manages the Louisville maintenance team and indirectly oversees relevant resources in North Carolina to ensure that methodologies for managing reliability are applied consistently in both facilities.

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager reports to the Louisville Plant Manager and also supports the North Carolina facility to translate best practices across the company.

• Schedules production equipment maintenance and repairs in a manner that maximizes throughput and utilization to minimize scrap.
• Expedites machine maintenance repairs when equipment encounters unanticipated mechanical or electrical downtime.
• Provides directions to craft personnel in areas of scheduling, staffing and work assignments.
• Ensures Work Instructions and Procedures are updated and reviewed with all affected maintenance personnel.
• Manages outside contractors and be on call for emergencies, when necessary.
• Oversees the stocking of spare parts and consumables to minimize downtime while optimizing working capital.
• Interfaces with suppliers to ensure availability, quality and reliability of equipment and components.
• Develops and implements reliability strategies, plans, and programs to improve equipment reliability and downtime.
• Conducts failure analyses, root cause analyses, and implements corrective action(s). Develop and design solutions to difficult problems,
• Applies knowledge of FMEA, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and other reliability methodologies.
• Drives maintenance best practices:
  Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve customer’s experience.
• Develops, maintains and reports reliability & maintenance metrics and KPIs.
• Provides oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning.
• Communicates technical issues and project timelines with building leadership, operations and the maintenance team. Explains production impacts and works closely with operations and engineering to ensure a thorough understanding of the impact on systems.

• Strong attention to detail to analyze data and make recommendations for improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.

• Experience with leading a maintenance team.
• Experience in project management.
• Electrical and electronic principles.
• Blueprint and electrical schematic reading.
• Knowledge of CMMS programs.
• Preventive, predictive and autonomous maintenance methodologies.
• Industrial electrical and controls.
• Proficient with Excel, Word, and other related systems.
• Able to learn and navigate Oracle to create or approve purchase requisitions.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• 5 years’ experience in a leadership role.
• 5 years’ experience in reliability engineering, maintenance, or a related field in a manufacturing environment.
• Six Sigma, Lean, TPM or other process improvement training.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, tools, and techniques.
• Strong budgeting and project management experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a union environment a plus.

Ability to read, write and speak English. Must be able to read and understand materials such as SDS and other OSHA requirements. This position requires a candidate to express or exchange ideas, convey important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

The candidate must…