Maintenance & Reliability Manager
On-siteBaton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Job Summary
Lead the plant's maintenance, reliability, facilities, and utility functions to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations. Develop and execute preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance programs that improve asset performance and equipment uptime. Drive reliability initiatives through Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, and continuous improvement practices. Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Safety, and Supply Chain teams to improve productivity, reduce downtime, and achieve business goals. Oversee maintenance planning, scheduling, work execution, backlog management, and CMMS effectiveness. Manage maintenance budgets, including labor, spare parts, contractors, and capital expenditures. Build, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance team through effective leadership, accountability, training, and succession planning. Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, food safety, and regulatory requirements. Foster a culture of proactive maintenance, operational excellence, and employee development.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of progressive maintenance and reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing maintenance teams, supervisors, planners, or reliability personnel.
- Demonstrated success improving equipment reliability, uptime, asset utilization, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
- Experience leading reliability improvement programs utilizing RCA, FMEA, RCM, and other structured problem-solving tools.
- Strong understanding of CMMS systems, maintenance planning and scheduling, and asset management practices.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractor relationships, spare parts inventories, and capital projects.
- Working knowledge of OSHA, environmental, food safety, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Strong leadership, communication, and team-building skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and data-driven performance reporting.
- Ability to support off-shift operations and respond to critical plant issues when necessary.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in food, beverage, packaging, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or other highly automated manufacturing environments.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Reliability Excellence, or World Class Manufacturing programs.
- Knowledge of PLCs, controls, VFDs, automated packaging systems, robotics, machine vision systems, and industrial utility systems.
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