Reliability Specialist

Description

The Reliability Specialist is passionate about Reliability Centered Maintenance, is self-motivated and works with minimum supervision. This role is responsible for supporting and enhancing equipment reliability and maintenance efforts by owning initiatives on condition monitoring, predictive maintenance (PM), and failure analysis activities. This role works on continuously improving unplanned downtime and improving overall equipment efficiency through PM Optimization, Pro Active Maintenance and other data-driven maintenance strategies.

The reliability specialist schedules planned work that is made ready to schedule by Planning.

• Reliability Program Development: Design and implement predictive and preventive maintenance programs that minimize unplanned downtime, improve equipment availability, and support increased production capacity.
• Continuous Improvement Projects: Lead structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and failure-mode review initiatives to address recurring mechanical or process issues and drive long-term reliability improvements.
• Reliability Project Ownership: Manage reliability-focused projects from concept through execution, including condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and follow-up work generated from inspection findings. Ensure accountability, measurable outcomes, and alignment with plant performance goals.
• Asset Prioritization & Maintenance Strategy: Identify critical assets and prioritize maintenance activities using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), condition-based monitoring, and preventive maintenance optimization principles. Establish and maintain standards for equipment care, lubrication practices, asset documentation, and reporting.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Track, analyze, and interpret key reliability and maintenance metrics, including schedule compliance, PM completion, PM optimization, proactive maintenance work orders, labor hours, asset history, downtime trends, and follow-up work orders. Use EAM/CMMS data and inspection results to inform maintenance strategies and guide decision-making.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Foster strong communication and ownership across Production, Maintenance, and Engineering teams. Partner with Maintenance Team Leads to audit completed work, address missed opportunities, implement corrective actions, and promote proactive asset care and reliability practices.
• Process & System Improvement: Participate in Lean, 5S, Six Sigma, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) initiatives, ensuring reliability strategies align with broader business and operational goals. Support equipment overhauls, precision alignment, balancing, and maintenance best practices that extend asset life.
• Strategic Reliability Roadmaps: Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to develop long-term reliability and capacity growth plans, identifying opportunities for mechanical optimization, automation, condition monitoring improvements, and systems enhancement.

Responsible and required to notify management about actual or potential food safety issues; and empowered to act to resolve food safety issues within their scope of work. If this position is vacant for any significant period of time the obligation for completion of all food safety and quality related tasks will become the responsibility of the direct manager or a qualified designee.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential…