Reliability and Maintenance Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Reliability and Maintenance Manageris responsible for leading the plant’s maintenance, engineering, and reliability functions to support safe, efficient, and consistent plant operations. In a snack food manufacturing environment, product quality, safety, cost, and service all depend on reliable equipment performance. This roleensuresthe plant’s assets are a competitive advantage, not a daily operational risk.

The Reliability and Maintenance Managerleadsmaintenance supervisors and maintenance team functions, with accountability for equipment uptime, asset health, spare parts readiness, and technical problem solving across the plant. This leaderis responsible for developing and strengthening proactive, planned, and data-driven reliability programs through effective preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, spare parts management, and fullutilizationof Redzone.

This position partners closely with Operations and cross-functional teams to reduce downtime, improve equipment performance, and support overall plant productivity.

• Owns line uptime, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair  (MTTR), and overall equipment reliability for theplant.
• Leads the plant toward a more planned, proactive, and data-driven maintenanceculture.
• Develops andmaintainspreventive and predictive maintenance programs that improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
• Leads rootcause analysis and corrective action for recurring equipment issues, chronic losses, and breakdowns.
• Partners with Production to address recurring downtime and improve day-to-day equipment performance.

• Provides leadership and direction to maintenance supervisors and maintenance technicians.
• Sets clear expectations for troubleshooting, work planning,and execution.
• Developstechnical capability across the team in electrical, mechanical, controls, refrigeration, and related areas.
• Oversees contractormanagementand provides technicalleadershipfor new equipment installations, linemodifications,and capital projects.

• Ownsthe plant’sspare parts strategy, including inventory accuracy,and critical spare availability.
• Improves spare parts controls to reduce stockouts, emergency purchases, and excess or obsolete inventory.
• Implementsparts kitting and planning processes to better support scheduled maintenance work.
• Maintainsaccurateassethierarchy,equipmentdocumentation,and maintenance records.
• Uses Redzone to support work order management, PM compliance, downtimedataanalysis, technician accountability, and maintenance visibility.
• Ensures Redzone data is accurate,timely, and used toidentifytrends, prioritize reliability work, and improve equipment performance.
• Ensures maintenance work is completed in compliance with food safety, GMP, quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Reinforces safe maintenance practices, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), contractor safety, and other required safety procedures.
• Supports ammonia/refrigeration compliance, documentation, inspections, and related maintenance requirements.
• Maintains audit-ready maintenance records, including PM documentation, work orders, regulatory records, and contractor documentation.

• Manages the maintenance labor and MRO budget with a focus on cost control, stronger planning, and reduced emergencyspend.
• Supports capital planning, equipment upgrade recommendations, and ROI justification for performance improvement projects.
• Tracks and improves key maintenanceperformancemetrics, including uptime, equipment-related OEE loss, PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, planned versus emergency work, spare parts accuracy and availability, maintenance cost per pound/case, safety incidents, and audit findings.

• Serves as the main site partner and liaison for Support Center Engineering on capital projects, technical strategy, engineering standards, and enterprise initiatives.
• Partners with Support Center Engineering oncapitalproject planning, scoping, on-site execution, commissioningandstartupof new lines, and major equipment upgrades.
• Supports process engineering improvements that increase throughput, reduce waste, improve quality, and strengthen equipment performance.
• Supports theintegration ofnew technologies, automation, controls, and digital tools into theplant.
• Partners with enterprise technical resources to support complex technical problem solving, long-term asset strategy, infrastructure planning, equipment standards and specifications, and best practice sharing across plants.
• Ensures corporate initiatives are implemented effectively at the plant level andsharespractical site feedback to improve enterprise engineering solutions.
• Leads Maintenance Supervisors, Reliability/Engineering resources, and Maintenance Technicians.
• Builds a team culture focused on craftsmanship, urgency, accountability, and pride in…