Reliability Engineering Manager

Manage engineering, reliability, maintenance and facilities operations in a facility containing multiple, complex operations with 600 or less employees with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service.

Day-to-Day Role:

• Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers
• Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development 
• Monitor KPIs anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets 
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) 
• Provide management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities
• Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document maintenance plans and performance metrics: 
• Failure, analysis, and corrective action procedures
• Equipment capacities and risks; and 
• Other engineering solutions
• Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance plans 
• Investigate root-cause for repetitive damage and failure rates, and calculate costs that do not meet or follow the maintenance plans
• Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement
• Lead training efforts to ensure maintenance technicians have needed resources for standard operating procedures (SOPs), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits
• Sets priorities for maintenance backlog and oversees long-range and short-range maintenance schedules
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment
• Ensure that maintenance standards are compliant with statutory health and safety regulations
• Direct teams to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed
• Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements
• Identify and recommend short- and long-term business strategies, understand and drive industry best practices 
• Develop and convey broad, advanced conceptual ideas, and propose and persuade several diverse stakeholders, including senior manufacturing leadership
• Establish and communicate department goals
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on applicable machinery, equipment and facility for cross functional projects 
• Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values 

Core Skills and Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field and seven (7) years of engineering, facilities and/or machinery maintenance experience and seven (7) years of progressive supervisory experience or equivalent experience 
• Two (2) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability
• Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable 
• Demonstrated project management experience by having successfully managed and completed a large, complex engineering project 
• Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products
• Advanced knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
• Understanding of reliability tools and strategies including direct experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products
• Knowledge of business and management principles specifically as it relates to maintenance planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance
• Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams, and to explain difficult situations
• Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Ability to utilize and train employees of varying levels/skills on technology, processes and procedures
• Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issues

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years of engineering, facilities, machinery maintenance and/or reliability experience
• Five (5) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability
• Degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering
• Experience managing multi-shift or continuous operations
• Paper converting, chemical or plastics processing, or packaging industrial experience
• Lean manufacturing experience