Sr. Maintenance Reliability Manager

The Sr. Maintenance Reliability Manager is primarily 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.

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).
• Built and maintain a strong working relationship with Maintenance Leadership, Planners, Storeroom personnel, Engineers, Operators, and Mechanics.
• Develops and fosters 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 opportunities for improvement. Enforces Management of Change processes.
• Ensures the reliability strategy is properly executed. Implements organizational structure, systems, tools and technologies that promote a proactive approach to maintenance.
• Ensures effective use and integration of standard corporate work order planning, scheduling and materials kits.
• Develops, recommends and implements strategies for improving the reliability of the manufacturing processes.
• Quality and Food Safety -- Ensure maintenance of machinery and construction of equipment to meet quality and food safety standards on open product zone areas.
• Develop and maintain plant preventative maintenance program.
• Document corrective action on preventive maintenance performed.
• Assist in the development, implementation and maintenance of Land O Lakes, Inc. Quality Systems to assure compliance with quality and food safety requirements.
• Facilitates best practice environmental, health and safety programs.

Required Experience:

• Management of ammonia refrigeration systems, process hazard analysis, process safety management.
• Accountability for Controls and/or Instrumentation teams.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience and skills.
• Expertise with high speed and high-volume dairy foods manufacturing processes and packaging related to cheese, butter, milk or related products desirable.
• Food/Dairy/Chemical Manufacturing Processing leadership requiring the use of a PSM regulated ammonia refrigeration system with technical knowledge of refrigeration and maintenance systems, equipment installation/startups and plant utility equipment.
• Solid project management, manufacturing processes, utilities, facilities construction.
• Labor Relations and union experience highly desired.
• Working knowledge of FDA and OSHA regulations, GMPs, Sanitation, and HACCP

Required Education/Certification:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related discipline and 7 years reliability and/or maintenance experience and 3 plus years in a leadership role required OR in lieu of degree 10 years reliability and/or maintenance experience and 3 plus years in a leadership role required