Maintenance and Reliability Leader

We are seeking a highly motivated Maintenance & Reliability Leader to join our Newark Leadership Team. This is a critical leadership role with broad influence across maintenance, reliability, engineering, safety, capital planning, and operational performance.

As a key member of the site leadership team and primary backup to the Site Leader, you will have the opportunity to shape plant culture, drive asset reliability, develop talent, and improve business performance while ensuring the safe and efficient production of high-quality products.

If you are a servant leader with a passion for reliability excellence, continuous improvement, and people development, we encourage you to apply.

This position is located in Newark, Delaware, United States (Newark, DE, USA). The Newark site plays a critical role in supporting Roquette's pharmaceutical business through the manufacture of high-quality excipient products utilized throughout the global healthcare industry.

The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $,000. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• A highly collaborative team environment with ample room for exponential career growth.
• Competitive pay, annual performance bonus, comprehensive benefits, 6.2'% company retirement contribution, and professional development opportunities.
• Generous paid time off and 12 annual paid company holidays.
• 12 weeks 100% paid maternity leave, and up to 4 weeks 100% paid parental leave (including adoption/surrogacy/foster care leave) for non-birthing parents.
• Student loan repayment assistance and tuition reimbursement program for select roles.
• Annual wellness benefit and wellness centered programs focused on your health needs.

This position offers a unique opportunity to:

• Lead a high-performing maintenance and reliability organization.
• Influence site strategy and operational performance.
• Drive meaningful improvements in safety, asset reliability, and productivity.
• Develop future leaders and technical talent.
• Serve as a key leadership partner to the Site Leader and Newark Management Team.
• Build long-term maintenance and reliability capability within a globally recognized organization.

• Serve as a key member of the Newark Leadership Team, providing strategic direction and leadership across the site.
• Partner with the Site Leader to drive operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, and business performance.
• Lead site-wide initiatives impacting safety, quality, environmental performance, employee engagement, and financial results.
• Model Roquette's values and leadership behaviors while helping shape a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Develop and execute the site's maintenance and reliability strategy.
• Relentlessly pursue maximum plant reliability to support safe and efficient operations.
• Lead maintenance, reliability engineering, utilities, facilities, and infrastructure engineering activities.
• Own site Maintenance & Reliability KPIs including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), preventive maintenance compliance, and maintenance cost effectiveness to ensure effective performance monitoring.
• Drive preventive, predictive, precision, and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
• Lead root cause failure analysis (RCFA), failure elimination efforts, and equipment reliability improvement initiatives.
• Implement asset management and lifecycle strategies that optimize reliability, cost, and performance.
• Own site asset criticality assessments, lifecycle management plans, and long-term equipment replacement strategies to sustain safe and reliable operations.
• Ensure effective maintenance planning, scheduling, and work execution processes.
• Champion the effective use of maintenance management systems, reliability data, and analytics to improve decision-making.
• Ensure MRO inventory management processes and storage areas comply with Roquette standards.
• Safely coordinate and execute maintenance turnarounds, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
• Support process automation, engineering, and operational teams through technical leadership and problem-solving expertise.

• Partner with the Site Leader to achieve EHS&Q goals and maintain compliance with regulatory and permit requirements.
• Advocate and reinforce Roquette's Life Saving Rules through visible leadership and field engagement.
• Maintain a strong daily field presence to coach employees, reinforce standards, identify risks, recognize positive behaviors, and understand operational challenges firsthand.
• Ensure appropriate technical review of maintenance work plans with consideration for safety,…