Manufacturing Reliability Manager

Job Category

Engineering

Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

The manufacturing reliability manager ensures reliable and efficient operations across multiple regions. This role involves developing strategies to enhance equipment and process reliability, leading reliability professionals, and fostering continuous improvement. The goal is to minimize downtime, reduce costs, increase uptime, improve asset performance, and ensure compliance with industry standards. They support multiple departments by identifying potential failures and creating programs for preventive strategies and contributing to overall operational excellence and profitability.

The manufacturing reliability manager assures quality, safety, and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.

This position will be located in Missouri.

Relocating candidates (50+ miles) are eligible for $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package
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Asset Lifecycle Management:

• Develop company wide strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets.
• Develop company wide component standards to drive reliability improvement.
• Support capital asset replacement, upgrades, and decommissioning, to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness over time.

Strategy and Leadership:

• Develop reliability programs for company and implement as assigned that allow for strong strategy execution.
• Align reliability goals with overall business objectives.
• Provide guidance, training, and support to regional partners.
• Lead and facilitate best practice sharing to drive company wide reliability.

Data Analysis and Continuous Improvement:

• Monitor and analyze reliability & maintenance metrics and KPIs to drive company performance, reliability culture, awareness, and evaluate program maturity.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment and process reliability.
• Identify, develop, share reliability tools and methodologies (e.g., FMEA, RCA, RCM, PdM technologies, etc.).
• Use measures to drive performance and evaluate progress.
• Lead advancements to identify, develop and provide solutions in predictive analytics (AI, ML) that will improve execution against company strategies.

Collaboration and Compliance:

• Collaborate with and works closely with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, engineering, Environmental Health Safety (EHS), and quality assurance, to ensure alignment on reliability goals and initiatives.
• Conduct reliability assessments to monitor progress, calibrate, and drive company wide maturity.
• Develop, implement, assess and govern use of engineering standards.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Training and Development:

• Provide training and support to regional partners on reliability best practices, and reliability metrics to raise awareness and drive company wide culture.
• Promote professional development within the reliability team.
• Keep abreast of new and changing technology, certifications, and methods that enhance own and company wide skill set.

Budget Management and Reporting:

• Plan, develop, and manage the budget for reliability programs and projects.
• Prepare and present reliability reports to senior management.
• Communicate reliability performance and improvement plans effectively.
• Quantify and communicate cost impact of reliability program initiatives.

Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

• Bachelor's in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering, or related field. Technical Bachelor's degree plus MBA, business minor, or double major are a plus.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, Vibration Analysis, Ultrasonic, Infrared, Metallurgy, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• 8+ years experience in Maintenance and Reliability Program, Multiple Site Accountability, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma), and Salaried Leader Leadership
• Experience in Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Six Sigma, Lean, Manufacturing/Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, proven record of asset performance improvement
• Comprehensive understanding and experience in world-class reliability and maintenance programs, metrics, statistics, project management, data analytics, engineering principles, ISO standards, manufacturing, risk management, regulatory compliance, planning & scheduling, proactive and predictive maintenance.
• Failure detection and care of…