How you will make history here…
The Sr Asset Care & Reliability Manager is responsible for developing and executing strategies to maximize equipment reliability, performance, parts management, and asset lifecycle across multiple manufacturing sites. This role partners with site leadership, engineering, and maintenance teams for 4-6 assigned sites to standardize asset care practices, improve preventive and predictive maintenance, and drive continuous improvement in equipment uptime and total cost of ownership. This is a remote role with travel required.
What you will do…
- Reliability Strategy & Standards
- Lead the design and deployment of the company’s asset care and reliability (ACR) strategy/pillar across supported locations.
- Define and enforce equipment reliability standards, including maintenance philosophies (e.g., TPM, RCM, PdM). This applies to mechanical components, as well as Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical assets.
- Develop asset care frameworks, including criticality assessments (equipment and spares) and equipment life cycle management.
- Ability to interpret KPIs/PdM test results, recommend corrective actions and optimize related reliability strategies.
- Optimize PM/PdM strategies based on performance data, and drive standardization across sites through shared learnings.
- Performance Monitoring & Optimization
- Analyze equipment performance metrics (OEE, MTBF, MTTR) to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Establish and manage KPIs across sites to improve visibility into asset reliability and drive local ownership of all results.
- Ensure site Maintenance teams have trained facilitators using Root Cause Analysis (RCA), 5-Why, Fishbone analysis or similar on equipment failures. Ensure outputs are high-quality, corrective actions are completed and repeat failures are eliminated.
- Drive focus on Top10 Bad Actors and the processes used to eliminate them.
- Maintenance Program Development
- Oversee the development and optimization of preventive/predictive maintenance programs across facilities.
- Support implementation of CMMS (SAP) improvements, spare parts strategies, and BOM standardization.
- Train and coach site maintenance teams on reliability best practices and standardized workflows. This includes technical skills and business acumen.
- Capital & Continuous Improvement Support
- Support capital project teams by contributing reliability input into equipment specifications and design.
- Partner with OpEx, operations, and engineering to drive uptime-focused initiatives and cost savings.
- Collaboration & Leadership
- Serve as a cross-site SME (subject matter expert) for reliability engineering and asset management.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, training sessions, and best practice adoption across Maintenance and Operations teams.
- Facilitate site ACR assessments to ensure compliance with reliability standards and performance requirements. This includes facilitating site Tactical Improvement Plans that improve capabilities and deliver related benefits.
- Ability to influence decision makers at all levels and drive change at a fast pace.
Who you will work with…
You will work with the regional Operations leaders and site level plant and maintenance leaders.
What you bring to the table (must haves) …
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 10+ years of experience in maintenance or reliability engineering within manufacturing; multi-site support preferred.
- 50% travel required; up to 75% travel
It would be great to have (nice to haves)…
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management or related field.
- In-depth knowledge and experience implementing reliability principles (RCM, FMEA, PdM), CMMS systems, and TPM methodologies.
- Advanced data analysis, and problem-solving skills; proficiency with data visualization and KPI reporting tools. Preference is given for advanced skill in Power Bi, Excel and similar applications.
- Effective communicator at all levels, with ability to deliver consensus in situations with high resistance.
- Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or equivalent certification.
- Experience in food, beverage, or CPG manufacturing.
- Expertise with SAP PM and MM modules has preference.
- Certifications and working knowledge with one or more of the following: Vibration, Infrared, Oil Analysis, Ultrasonic.
- Working knowledge or experience in Motor Circuit Evaluation.
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