Area Reliability Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Deliver strategic leadership in reliability across various corrugated manufacturing plants.

• Collaborate with plant and business leaders to enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), equipment availability, maintenance efficiency, and long-term asset health.

• Implement uniform reliability practices, eliminate execution barriers, and foster technical skills for safe, dependable, and sustainable operations.

• Advocate for a safety culture, identify risks, encourage personal accountability, and ensure compliance, aiming for zero Notices of Violation (NOVs).

• Offer technical and strategic guidance for site reliability and maintenance procedures.

• Assist plant leaders in integrating effective practices into everyday operations.

• Create and support one-year and three-year reliability tactical plans specific to each site.

• Collaborate with Capital and Project Engineering teams on reliability, maintainability, operability, and life-cycle considerations for installations and upgrades.

• Enhance preventive, predictive, precision maintenance, and lubrication strategies.

• Reinforce work management and aid in developing proactive equipment replacement plans.

• Leverage OEE, downtime, maintenance, and asset health data to pinpoint opportunities, allocate resources effectively, and validate sustained corrective actions.

• Mentor plant leaders and reliability professionals, disseminate standards and best practices across sites, and cultivate technical skills.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in plant operations, maintenance, or reliability leadership within a manufacturing setting.

• Familiarity with preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance, lubrication excellence, and associated reliability programs.

• Experience in evaluating and enhancing mechanical and electrical reliability.

• Demonstrated capability in implementing reliability and maintenance processes, establishing standards, and ensuring consistent execution.

• Strong ability to build, lead, influence, and develop high-performing reliability and maintenance teams across organizational lines.

• Experience in spearheading continuous improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving techniques such as Lean or Six Sigma.

• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 75% of the time, including occasional weekends based on business requirements.

• No visa sponsorship is available.

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field is preferred.

• Certification as a Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or a similar credential is preferred.

• Experience in the corrugated or paper-based packaging manufacturing sector is preferred.

• A track record of enhancing equipment, processes, and systems beyond original equipment manufacturer (OEM) standards is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Flexible spending accounts

• Health savings accounts

• Life insurance

• Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance

• Disability insurance

• Retirement benefits

• Paid vacation/time off

• Educational assistance

• Infertility assistance

• Paid parental leave

• Adoption assistance

• Variable compensation, which may be provided as a monetary bonus or in another format