Director of Maintenance & Reliability# Director of Maintenance & ReliabilityHot JobPrinsburg, MN 56281; Jesup, IA 50648; Chatsworth, IL 60921## OverviewSalary Range$150,000.00 - $170,000.00 Salary/yearPosition TypeFull TimeJob ShiftAnyEducation Level4 Year DegreeTravel PercentageRoad WarriorCategoryMaintenance## DescriptionPrinsco is looking for a **Director of Maintenance Reliability** who can help us take the next step in how we manage, maintain, and improve our manufacturing assets.This is more than a traditional maintenance leadership role - this role is for a Builder. We're looking for someone who can build a world-class reliability program across our manufacturing network, creating the systems, standards, technical capability, and accountability to move us from reactive maintenance toward a more proactive, predictive, and data-driven approach. The right leader will be equally comfortable setting the organization-wide reliability strategy and walking the production floor with plant and maintenance teams. You'll need to understand what is happening with the equipment, ask the right questions, coach problem-solving, establish practical standards, and help ensure those standards translate into sustainable execution in our plants.With nine U.S. production plants and 34 production lines, this role has the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on equipment reliability, uptime, safety, cost, and overall manufacturing performance. This role reports to the COO.## What You Will Own:* Building and advancing our maintenance reliability strategy, roadmap, standards, systems, training, and governance.* Developing preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance practices that improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.* Creating greater discipline around maintenance planning and scheduling, including work orders, backlog management, PM compliance, shutdown planning, and coordination with Operations.* Establishing standards for critical spare parts, MRO inventory, contractors, vendors, and maintenance best practices.* Leading root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, A3, and corrective-action efforts to eliminate recurring equipment failures.* Partnering across Operations, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Purchasing, and Finance to ensure reliability priorities support the needs of the business.* Building technical capability within our maintenance teams through training, skills development, apprenticeship support, coaching, leadership development, and succession planning.* Driving improvement in equipment availability, plant uptime, maintenance cost, PM effectiveness, emergency work, and overall equipment effectiveness.## What You Bring## We're looking for a leader with:* 10+ years of progressive experience in industrial maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing leadership.* Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems, controls, PLC/HMI environments, material handling, utilities, and plant infrastructure.* Demonstrated success implementing preventative and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS discipline, root cause analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance practices.* Experience working with maintenance budgets, MRO spend, vendors, contractors, capital projects, and cross-functional efforts.* The ability to build programs, establish standards and KPIs, develop people, and create sustainable execution across multiple locations.* Experience in plastics, extrusion, corrugated HDPE pipe, building products, packaging, continuous manufacturing, or similar industrial manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.* A bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial technology, maintenance management, operations management, or related technical discipline is preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.* CMRP, CRL, Six Sigma, Lean, or similar maintenance/reliability training is a plus!## What We Offer* A **high-impact leadership opportunity** with the ability to shape our maintenance and reliability strategy.* The opportunity to build, not simply maintain. You will help define the reliability roadmap, establish standards, strengthen systems, and develop the technical capability needed to support our manufacturing organization.* **Meaningful partnership across the business**. You will work closely with plant managers and leaders across Operations, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Purchasing, and Finance to solve equipment and business challenges.* A **hands-on manufacturing environment** where spending time on the production floor, developing people, solving problems, and improving how we operate are integral parts of the role.* **Competitive compensation package*** A purpose-driven organization grounded in our values of **Hard Work, Relationships, Humility, and Integrity** and our mission: *To care. To contribute. To solve.*