Organizational Design Consultant – Maintenance and Reliability

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

📋 Description

• Conduct interviews with leaders and employees to gain insight into current responsibilities, workload challenges, and discrepancies between formal roles and actual practices.

• Evaluate workload, staffing levels, and span of control for maintenance and reliability positions, including planners, schedulers, technicians, and reliability engineers.

• Identify coverage deficiencies and suggest adjustments to staffing or reporting relationships based on analytical support.

• Map the interactions among maintenance, operations, engineering, materials, and other functions, while pinpointing unclear ownership.

• Create role descriptions and a RACI matrix for essential maintenance and reliability activities.

• Define the division of responsibilities between operators and maintenance staff for routine equipment care and escalation points.

• Develop governance structures and meeting frameworks, including ownership of decisions, issue reviews, and escalation processes.

• Identify skill gaps, create skills matrices, and outline training, coaching, and transition support.

• Facilitate leadership reviews and achieve cross-functional consensus on responsibilities, decision-making authority, and working relationships.

• Collaborate with client HR to update formal roles and job descriptions.

• Coordinate with other workstream leads to ensure role assignments align with maintenance and reliability processes.

• Assist leaders in communicating and implementing changes.

• Follow up with managers and employees to confirm the effectiveness of new roles and address any implementation challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in organizational design and clarifying operational roles within manufacturing, aerospace, or similar industrial settings.

• Solid understanding of maintenance and reliability practices, including planning and scheduling, preventive maintenance, and the roles of maintenance and engineering personnel.

• Experience in utilizing workload and staffing data to evaluate workforce requirements and recommend modifications to staffing levels or supervisory roles in a manufacturing context.

• Demonstrated ability to define roles, accountability, decision rights, and cross-functional relationships.

• Capability to diagnose organizational challenges through interviews, process observations, and operational data analysis.

• Proficient in facilitating sensitive discussions regarding responsibilities and achieving consensus among leadership groups.

• Experience in linking organizational recommendations to practical implementation and securing employee buy-in.

• Preferred: Consulting experience in leading organizational design or change initiatives for manufacturing clients, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders and assisting site teams in their implementation.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting a Total Productive Maintenance implementation.

• Preferred: Experience in guiding teams through organizational changes, particularly when such changes impact reporting relationships, decision-making authority, or daily responsibilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• 1099 contract employment.

• Remote work opportunity within the United States.

• Weekly travel from Monday to Friday.