Director of Maintenance & Reliability

Comfort starts with our 10,000+ team members across the globe, who are transforming the power of comfort every day. Our employees have the power to change lives, in our homes, work and communities. We foster an inclusive environment while honoring a legacy built on family, where everyone can be themselves.

If you are ready to join an industry leading organization where our people are the most important asset, and innovation propels us into the future, you’re ready to take your seat at La-Z-Boy Incorporated. 

WE BELIEVE IN THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF COMFORT

This position is responsible for developing and executing LZB's long-term maintenance, reliability, and asset health strategy across a multi-site manufacturing and corporate footprint, including five U.S. manufacturing facilities, corporate headquarters, and two manufacturing locations in Mexico. This leader will build a multi-year roadmap to improve asset health, equipment reliability, facility performance, and maintenance capability while ensuring strong day-to-day maintenance execution. The role requires a leader who is equally comfortable developing strategy in the conference room and driving execution on the plant floor. This position will bring a strong combination of Maintenance, Engineering, and Manufacturing Operations experience, with demonstrated success transforming maintenance organizations from reactive environments toward disciplined preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance. The role partners closely with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Continuous Improvement, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to ensure assets and facilities are safe, reliable, capable, and positioned to support long-term growth.

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (other duties as assigned):

·       Develop and execute a 3-5 year enterprise maintenance and asset health strategy across U.S. and Mexico operations.

·       Establish asset strategies based on equipment criticality, condition, lifecycle, operational risk, and business impact.

·       Create a roadmap that moves the organization from reactive maintenance toward planned, preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance.

·       Provide leadership for day-to-day maintenance performance across five U.S. manufacturing locations, two Mexico manufacturing locations, and corporate headquarters.

·       Establish a disciplined operating system for maintenance planning, scheduling, execution, performance review, Root Cause Analysis, failure analysis, and defect elimination.

·       Improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs, eliminate ineffective PM activities, and reduce chronic and repetitive equipment failures.

·       Partner with Engineering and Operations on equipment specifications, selection, commissioning, installation, startup, maintainability, standardization, lifecycle cost, modernization, and capital planning.

·       Build a high-performing maintenance and reliability organization by developing leaders, planners, supervisors, engineers, and skilled trades personnel.

·       Establish enterprise standards, roles, competency expectations, career paths, training, succession plans, and knowledge-sharing practices.

·       Create a culture in which Operations and Maintenance jointly own equipment reliability and asset health, including effective autonomous maintenance practices.

·       Develop an enterprise MRO and critical spare-parts strategy based on equipment criticality, lead time, failure risk, and operational impact.

·       Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to improve vendor strategy, inventory effectiveness, standardization, and total maintenance cost.

·       Ensure maintenance work is performed safely and in compliance with company standards and applicable regulations, including electrical safety, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, contractor management, and safe-work permitting.

SCOPE & IMPACT: 

Leads the enterprise maintenance, reliability, and asset health strategy across eight locations: five U.S. manufacturing facilities, two Mexico manufacturing facilities, and corporate headquarters. Influences plant managers and senior operations leaders in a decentralized, multi-site environment and provides asset-condition and reliability data that shape capital investment, equipment modernization, operating performance, safety, productivity, quality, and cost decisions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 10+ years of experience, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing multi-year maintenance and asset reliability strategies.
• Strong background in manufacturing operations and maintenance/engineering leadership, with demonstrated success improving uptime and reducing unplanned downtime.
• Strong experience with preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance.
• Demonstrated knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, equipment criticality, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS systems, MRO and critical spare parts, and capital planning and asset lifecycle management.
• Experience building and developing maintenance organizations and technical talent.
• Demonstrated ability to influence plant managers and senior operations leaders across a decentralized, multi-site organization.
• Ability to travel regularly between U.S. and Mexico facilities.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: 

• 5+ years leading maintenance or reliability organizations in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, or Business.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or similar reliability certification.
• Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement experience and TPM or autonomous maintenance experience.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving an enterprise CMMS.
• Experience establishing predictive technologies such as vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound, and condition monitoring.
• Experience developing equipment lifecycle and capital replacement strategies.
• Experience working in both U.S. and Mexico manufacturing environments; Spanish-language capability is a plus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Up to 10 direct reports

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Office environment with no specific or unusual physical or environmental demands. Often required to sit, use repetitive hand motion such as typing, hear, listen, talk, stand, and walk. Seldom required to bend, stoop, climb stairs or ladders, kneel, squat, reach overhead, push, pull, or lift up to 50 pounds. Not required to crouch, crawl, or shovel. Requirements may vary for in-plant activities.

OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the incumbent for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Weekly Hours:

40

Benefit offerings to employees and their families include: Medical, Vision, Dental and Basic Life Insurance, available 401k retirement plan with company match of up to 6%. Paid time off includes: 9-11 paid holidays each year, two weeks’ prorated vacation as a new hire and either personal time (non-exempt only) or state mandated sick time.

More information can be found via: https://learn.bswift.com/la-z-boy

If this role requires travel / driving in order to perform the key responsibilities outlined above, candidates must be able to meet the qualifications noted in the company’s Driver Management Program to be considered for the role.

At La-Z-Boy Incorporated, we're an equal opportunity employer. We understand that our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and viewpoints add value to our ability to create and deliver the best possible service, quality products, and is of utmost importance as we work together to build comfort. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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