Head of Maintenance Excellence & Reliability

Bell & Evans; Fredericksburg (PA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bell & Evans is seeking a Director of Maintenance Excellence and Reliability to set enterprise strategy for maintenance across all plants. You will lead asset reliability programs, workforce planning, and governance to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Safety, and Procurement to standardize practices, oversee planning, data systems, and continuous improvement initiatives, and coach site leaders to raise performance across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Extensive leadership in multi-site maintenance and reliability.
• Experience implementing maintenance excellence and continuous improvement.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, and CMMS.
• Ability to lead through influence in a matrix organization.
• Commitment to safety, quality, and food safety.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy across all plants.
• Establish, document, and continuously improve common maintenance standards, processes, governance, and performance expectations.
• Define the appropriate balance of preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance based on asset criticality and business risk.
• Partner with plant and operations leaders to improve equipment reliability, uptime, throughput, safety, quality, and total cost of ownership.
• Identify and scale best practices across facilities while allowing appropriate flexibility for plant-specific needs.
• Determine the maintenance organization structure, roles, competencies, staffing levels, shift coverage, and skill mix needed across all plants.
• Develop workforce-capacity models using asset base, workload, operating schedules, reliability targets, and service requirements.
• Clarify decision rights and accountabilities among Operations, plant maintenance, the enterprise maintenance function, Engineering, and external service providers.
• Establish competency models, training priorities, career paths, and succession plans for maintenance personnel.
• Provide functional coaching and direction to plant maintenance leaders through the dotted-line reporting relationship.
• Lead the design and consistent execution of maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, backlog management, shutdown, and outage processes.
• Direct and develop the Enterprise Maintenance Planner and Scheduler.
• Ensure planned work is properly scoped and supported with labor, parts, tools, safety requirements, procedures, and contractor resources before scheduling.
• Define scheduling cadences and coordination routines that align maintenance work with production requirements and minimize operational disruption.
• Own the functional requirements, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of the computerized maintenance management system and related reliability tools.
• Ensure accurate asset hierarchies, criticality rankings, preventive maintenance plans, bills of material, work histories, failure codes, and parts data.
• Establish enterprise key performance indicators, dashboards, targets, and review routines that drive accountability and fact-based decisions.
• Use performance and cost data to identify systemic issues, prioritize resources, support capital decisions, and verify that improvements are sustained.
• Build a continuous improvement mindset within maintenance and operations, emphasizing disciplined problem solving, standard work, ownership, and learning.
• Lead reliability improvement methods such as root-cause analysis, defect elimination, criticality analysis, and recurring-failure review.
• Facilitate cross-plant forums to share lessons learned, standardize effective practices, and accelerate improvements.
• Assess maintenance maturity by location and maintain a prioritized multiyear roadmap for advancing capabilities.
• Develop the enterprise strategy for using internal labor and external contractors, ensuring the right work is performed by the right resources at the appropriate cost and risk level.
• Establish contractor qualification, safety, performance, scope, and cost-management expectations in partnership with Procurement and plant leadership.
• Optimize maintenance, repair, and operations inventory by setting standards for critical spares, stocking levels, storeroom controls, obsolescence, repairable assets, and supplier performance.
• Reduce avoidable spending and downtime without compromising safety, compliance, quality, or asset reliability.
• Sets enterprise maintenance and reliability standards, methods, systems requirements, and performance measures.
• Recommends plant maintenance structures, staffing levels, capability investments, technology, contractor strategies, and parts policies.
• Challenges local practices that create unacceptable reliability, safety, compliance, quality, or cost risk and escalates unresolved issues through the appropriate operations leadership.
• Works through influence and matrix leadership while respecting Operations’ direct accountability for plant maintenance execution and results.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance Strategy

Reliability

Asset Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

CMMS (SAP)

Asset Management Tools

Job description

Bell & Evans is seeking a Director of Maintenance Excellence and Reliability to set enterprise strategy for maintenance across all plants. You will lead asset reliability programs, workforce planning, and governance to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Safety, and Procurement to standardize practices, oversee planning, data systems, and continuous improvement initiatives, and coach site leaders to raise performance across the