Manufacturing Reliability Manager

Job Category:

Engineering

Job Family:

Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

Job Description:

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

What you’ll do:

Asset Lifecycle Management:
• Develops companywide strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets.
• Develops companywide component standards to drive reliability improvement.
• Supports 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.
• Leads and facilitates best practice sharing to drive companywide 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 companywide 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 companywide culture...