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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 onsite in Green Bay, WI.
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.
• Promote professional development within the reliability team.
• Keep abreast of new and changing technology, certifications, and methods that enhance own and companywide skill set.
Budget Management and Reporting:
• Plan, develop, and manage the budget for reliability programs and projects.
• Prepare and present reliability reports to senior management.
• Communicate reliability performance and improvement plans effectively.
• Quantify and communicate cost impact of reliability program initiatives.
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 in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering, or related field. Technical Bachelor's degree plus MBA, business minor, or double major are a plus.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, Vibration Analysis, Ultrasonic, Infrared, Metallurgy, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• 8+ years experience in Maintenance and Reliability Program, Multiple Site Accountability, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma), and Salaried Leader Leadership
• Experience in Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Six Sigma, Lean, Manufacturing/Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, proven record of asset performance improvement
• Comprehensive understanding and experience in world-class reliability and maintenance programs, metrics, statistics, project management, data analytics, engineering principles, ISO standards, manufacturing, risk management, regulatory compliance, planning & scheduling, proactive and predictive maintenance.
• Failure detection and care of electronics, PLCs, robotics, boilers & refrigeration equipment, and infrastructure skills required.
• Ability to travel 50% monthly to other Schreiber locations within Wisconsin or Grand Rapids, MI or Shippensburg, WI and 10% quarterly to suppliers/vendors
- 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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