Head of Manufacturing Reliability & Process Excellence

RecruitAbility Ltd; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Job summary

Our client, a premier American agribusiness and dairy foods cooperative, seeks a Director of Manufacturing Reliability to lead reliability across multiple sites. You will establish a multi-year strategy, govern asset management, and drive TPM/Lean/Six Sigma initiatives while mentoring engineers and guiding capital decisions.

Required: engineering degree and significant multi-site leadership with RCM and CMMS expertise. Competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or a related engineering discipline.
• Progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, reliability, maintenance, process improvement, operations, or capital-project execution with multi-site leadership.
• Expertise in asset management, RCM, preventive/predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, root-cause analysis, CMMS processes, and asset lifecycle planning.
• Experience leading business-unit or site engineering teams and developing multi-year roadmaps for capital, infrastructure, automation, and reliability.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, statistical analysis, capacity modeling, and standard work.
• Ability to translate asset risks into business cases and capital recommendations with measurable financial benefits.
• Experience developing technical talent and communities of practice within a matrixed organization.
• Preferred experience in food, dairy, agriculture, or regulated continuous/batch manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute a multi-year reliability strategy across a multi-site manufacturing network.
• Govern standards for asset criticality, maintenance, CMMS processes, and spares management.
• Provide strategic direction for engineering teams and site operations.
• Lead Process Improvement using 4DX, TPM, Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, DMAIC.
• Embed Reliability by Design in capital projects and asset lifecycle reviews.
• Partner with IT/OT, Operations, and Controls Engineering to advance connected assets and data integration.
• Develop and lead reliability, engineering, and process-improvement professionals across locations.
• Influence asset risk, capital allocation, and plant capability across all sites.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Asset management

RCM

Maintenance strategy

Condition monitoring

CMMS

Lean

Six Sigma

DMAIC

Process improvement

Multi-site leadership

Capital-project planning

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or related engineering

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Our client, a premier American agribusiness and dairy foods cooperative, seeks a Director of Manufacturing Reliability to lead reliability across multiple sites. You will establish a multi-year strategy, govern asset management, and drive TPM/Lean/Six Sigma initiatives while mentoring engineers and guiding capital decisions.

Required: engineering degree and significant multi-site leadership with RCM and CMMS expertise. Competitive compensation and benefits.