Reliability Manager

Job Category:

Manufacturing/Operations

Job Family:

Operations Maintenance Excellence

Job Description:

The regional reliability manager's main goal is to boost the reliability, availability, and performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities, ensuring smooth operations, increasing uptime, and boosting efficiency and profits in more than one plant within a region. They support maintenance and operations by proactively pinpointing potential failures or weaknesses and creating strategies to prevent or lessen these issues. The regional reliability engineer assures safety standards and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.
Responsibilities will include supporting locations outside of home plant.

What you’ll do:

Asset Lifecycle Management:
• Implement companywide strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets.
• Drive component standard adherence to drive reliability.
• Improve assets and facilities by finding ways to enhance reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Leadership & Development:
• Facilitates best practice sharing to drive companywide reliability.
• Provide training and support to regional partners on reliability best practices, and reliability metrics to raise awareness and drive companywide culture.
• Use measures to drive performance and evaluate progress.

Data Analysis and Continuous Improvement:
• Analyze data from equipment sensors and maintenance records to spot potential reliability issues to prioritize for improvement.
• Use advanced statistics and engineering mathematics for analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment and process reliability.
• Use reliability tools and methodologies (e.g., FMEA, RCA, RCM, PdM technologies, etc.).

Failure, Root Cause Analysis, & Risk Assessment:
• Investigates the root causes of failures to understand why they happened and how they can be prevented in the future.
• Assess potential risks associated with equipment failures.
• Develop strategies to mitigate risks, such as implementing redundancy measures or upgrading critical equipment.

Asset Care Strategy:
• Improves proactive maintenance by driving precision assembly and lubrication excellence.
• Develop, implement, and improve predictive & preventive maintenance strategies to drive reliability.
• Implement tool strategies to ensure that equipment is properly maintained and serviced to prevent unplanned downtime and equipment failures.

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.
• Implement and govern use of engineering standards.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you will need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or related field. Masters degree a plus.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, Vibration Analysis, Ultrasonic, Metallurgy, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• 8+ years experience in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma
• Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Six Sigma, Lean, Manufacturing/Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, proven record of asset performance improvement
• Understanding of World-class Reliability and Maintenance concepts, metrics, Statistics, Project Management, Data Analytics, Engineering Principles, ISO Standards, Manufacturing, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Planning & Scheduling, Proactive and Predictive Maintenance.
• Skills regarding failure detection and care of electronics, PLCs, robotics, boilers & refrigeration equipment, and infrastructure.
• Ability to travel 10-20% monthly to other regional Schreiber locations and 5-15% annually to non region Schreiber locations and suppliers/vendors.

Eligible partners will receive:

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits.  When you join our employee-owned company, you’ll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one.  In addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 8% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year.  That’s a company contribution of around 16% in retirement savings annually.  That’s hard to beat!
• Earn bonus pay. You’ll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Ready to make a move?  Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for a U.S. Salaried position.   
• Childcare costs. Get up to $5,000 annually to help you with the cost of childcare.  Monthly contributions toward childcare expenses, including independent babysitters.
• Earn $ for focusing on your health. Depending on your medical plan enrollment, earn $1,200 in your HSA or as a cash payout for prevention activities.  Plus, use your $600 lifestyle spending account for reimbursements related to health, fitness, weight management, mental health and social wellness.
• Pursue development that’s relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
• Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
• Experience caring like you’ve never experienced it before. We have a program that’s completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It’s called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.

Sound like a company you’d like to be a part of? Click Apply.

Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601.

​For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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