Reliability Excellence Lead – Multi-Site & Remote

Cascades Inc.; Wagram (NC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Employee share purchase plan

Group insurance

Telemedicine

Employer-supported retirement plan

Flex-pay allowance

Wellness program

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Cascades Inc. is seeking a Technical Reliability Expert to elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across our U.S. mills.

You will coach maintenance leaders, develop improvement plans, and implement reliability best practices to reduce downtime and strengthen asset performance. This remote role (Eastern or Central U.S.) involves travel across sites to deploy strategies, monitor progress, and share learnings with the Reliability Excellence team, enabling a more sustainable manufacturing

Qualifications

• 10+ years in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering and continuous improvement.
• Experience improving reliability culture across manufacturing operations.
• Knowledge of reliability programs, metrics, preventive & predictive maintenance.
• Experience developing and implementing reliability strategies and action plans.
• Ability to analyze complex operational situations and recommend practical solutions.
• Experience leading root cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Strong coaching, influence, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work effectively with teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication in English.
• Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Manufacturing industry experience; pulp and paper asset experience is a plus.
• Consulting experience deploying reliability solutions across multiple sites is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across the organization.
• Coach reliability leaders and maintenance teams across sites.
• Develop site-specific reliability improvement plans for multiple mills.
• Build and monitor 90-day action plans focused on asset reliability.
• Analyze reliability metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause analyses for recurring or high-impact issues.
• Drive reliability initiatives to improve asset performance and reduce downtime.
• Promote preventive and predictive maintenance strategies and CMMS utilization.
• Share knowledge and best practices across the network.
• Travel ~50% across U.S. operations.

Skills

Maintenance & reliability

Asset management

Continuous improvement

Root cause analysis

Coaching & influence

English communication

Team collaboration

Cross-site coordination

Problem solving

Strategic planning

Maintenance planning

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Cascades Inc. is seeking a Technical Reliability Expert to elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across our U.S. mills.

You will coach maintenance leaders, develop improvement plans, and implement reliability best practices to reduce downtime and strengthen asset performance. This remote role (Eastern or Central U.S.) involves travel across sites to deploy strategies, monitor progress, and share learnings with the Reliability Excellence team, enabling a more sustainable manufacturing