Reliability & Maintenance Manager

Your Job

Guardian Industries is seeking a Reliability and Maintenance Manager to join our team in Texas!

In this role, you will lead a team that maintains plant machinery that includes glass melting equipment, raw material batching equipment, glass coating and tempering equipment, utility systems, robots & other automated glass handling equipment.

Our Team

We are a principled based company that relies heavily on teamwork and ingenuity.

We pride ourselves on being the partner of choice for our internal and external customers.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship

What You Will Do


* Lead the Reliability & Maintenance Team focusing heavily on reliability-based maintenance principles.


* Help educate the plant leadership on the foundational components of a world class reliability-based organization, and help all stay aligned to utilizing the key components to drive more reliable & stable operations.


* Establish key KPIs that are used to benchmark reliability-based operations and utilize them to identify gaps, develop progression plans for driving improvements, and show ongoing status.


* Participate in regional and global maintenance and reliability organizations as plant representative, contributing to business continuous improvement.


* Provide coaching and feedback to help employees recognize their comparative advantage (strengths and weaknesses) and place them in roles to help them be able maximize their contribution accordingly.


* Develop solutions and make recommendations for operations and maintenance teams using analytical tools such as RCM, FMEA, and RCA


* Generate an environment that seeks to challenge the employee to acquire and learn new knowledge that will help them to continuously improve


* Utilize maintenance data systems that support work orders, preventative maintenance, and reliability improvements


* Organize, coordinate, and lead maintenance team to successfully meet plant objectives


* Lead cost control and continuous improvement in your department which includes critical & consumable spares inventory in plant storeroom

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Experience in establishing, leading and managing a Reliability-based Maintenance Team


* Experience in partnering with Production leadership to resolve issues and improve plant equipment reliability.


* Experience with identification and development of leading indicators for reliability of critical assets


* General knowledge of maintenance practices for hydraulics, pneumatics, industrial level electrical / PLC's, motor control centers, utility systems, transformers, switch gears, and/or process instrumentation

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience problem solving and troubleshooting hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs, motor control centers, utility systems, transformers, or switchgears


* Experience with automation maintenance practices and maintenance equipment


* Experience with condition mon...