Sr. Maintenance Reliability Manager

Sr.

Maintenance Reliability Manager

The Sr.

Maintenance Reliability Manager is primary responsible for developing, implementing, and driving strategies, that will improve overall maintenance practices and processes to increase and sustain equipment up-time and plant utilities functions including ammonia and refrigeration, as well as HVAC, steam, boiler, water infrastructure and systems.

This position ensures the plant follows and maintains the Corporate PSM Program requirements and ensures compliance with all Federal, State and Local ammonia refrigeration requirements.

Provide overall leadership and direction to the reliability function.

This position is responsible to the Plant Manager for the safe, effective and efficient use of all manpower, materials, parts and other resources under their control as well as providing capacity, asset reliability and best life cycle cost to the operation.

Responsible for defining, implementing, and managing the systems, maintenance organization structure, and processes necessary to achieve and sustain the reliability mission.

Through their efforts, a proactive culture which fosters open communication and trust that values reliability, efficiency and effective life cycle asset management is achieved.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Fosters a culture that does not tolerate equipment failures and seeks to understand and eliminate the causes using techniques such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA).


* Build and maintain a strong working relationship with Maintenance Leadership, Planners, Storeroom personnel, Engineers, Operators, and Mechanics.


* Develop and foster a communication network that promotes interaction between mechanics, operators, Team Leaders, and managers.


* Create a proactive work environment that involves mechanics in the planning, coordinating, and execution of work.


* Develops and controls the maintenance budget that provides for optimized spending to achieve the agreed upon capacity and asset reliability.


* Ensures standard reliability and maintenance work processes are followed.

Implements and tracks maintenance KPIs.


* Analyzes operational data and equipment performance history to deliver improvements in critical maintenance related metrics / KPIs.


* Develops and leads the reliability process to continuously improve equipment up-time and reduce related maintenance cost.


* Develops and executes maintenance strategies to achieve plant availability of 90%+.


* Implements and details Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMP) on plant equipment.


* Manages reliability-related communications and best practice sharing.


* Manages the reliability workforce, develops succession plans, skills assessments and training.


* Manages the parts warehouse to maintain critical spares, minimize necessary inventory and automate materials requisition functions.


* Periodically benchmarks current performance with internal and external sources to identify opportunitie...